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TIFFANY STRATTON VS. CHARLOTTE FLAIR SEGMENT VEERS WAY OFF COURSE LAST NIGHT

The Smackdown face-off with Charlotte Flair and Tiffany Stratton went well off the planned back and forth verbiage, PWInsider.com is told by several sources.

Towards the end of the segment, there were references made by Stratton about Flair being "alone" and "0-3" outside the ring, which was an allusion to her divorces, followed by Flair asking why Stratton's signifigant other, Ludwig Kaiser, was in Flair's DMs.

The belief among those we've spoken with this morning is that Stratton fired away on Flair in retaliation for how Flair "ate her up" on a previous face to face segment.

Some we spoke with felt Stratton stood up for herself in a way that put the spotlight back on her (and in front of a Chicago crowd was sincerely pro-Stratton) while others felt that the segment going awry towards the end didn't help anyone.

Several we spoke to also noted that Flair was obviously thrown by the crowd, which allowed Stratton's shots to hit even harder. 

Flair's final comment about Kaiser came after Stratton had already rolled out of the ring and began exiting the arena.  One source referred to it as coming off like "a flailing shot from a boxer who didn't realize they were KO'd" and that Flair was obviously "gotten to."

Several of the comments made were cut from WWE's YouTube highlights of the segment.  A WWE tweet featuring the divorce and Kaiser references was deleted off Twitter as well.  No word yet whether the VOD version of Smackdown will also reflect those edits.

It should be interesting to see how much WWE leans into what was said last night going into Wrestlemania or whether the stuff that veered off the scripted territory is completely ignored going forward.

Meanwhile, Ludwig Kaiser responded to Flair:

 

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