Charlotte Flair Eyes Serena Williams Match After Retaining Tag Titles

Charlotte Flair said she would like to face tennis star Serena Williams in a wrestling match and on Friday night helped her tag team partner Alexa Bliss retain the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship on SmackDown. The champion made the comments in a recent interview and later responded to fan reaction on social media following the title defense at the Stamford-based promotion’s weekly program.

Flair and Bliss defended against NXT competitors Sol Ruca and Zaria in a match that featured intense back-and-forth action. In the closing moments, Ruca was briefly distracted by Blake Monroe, who was present in the crowd. Flair seized the opening, applied her Figure Eight submission and forced Ruca to tap out, allowing the champions to leave SmackDown still holding the belts.

The match marked another defense since Flair and Bliss won the tag titles at SummerSlam in August and have defended them multiple times across the roster, including on Raw, SmackDown and NXT. The pairing has drawn attention for its mix of character work and in-ring offense, and was praised by Flair’s father, Ric Flair, on social media, where he wrote, "Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss Are Absolutely The Best Thing Going...