WWE: Charlotte Flair, Not Becky Lynch, Should Turn Heel

The seeds for a Becky Lynch heel turn were planted on this week’s WWE SmackDown, but it should be Charlotte Flair turning heel instead.

On Tuesday’s WWE SmackDown, there were a lot of overt signs of a possible heel turn for Becky Lynch. Throughout the night, the main focus of this show was on the match between Carmella and Becky Lynch at SummerSlam. The show started with an in ring interview for Becky Lynch with Renee Young, where, per usual, Becky Lynch showed why she is one of the best pure baby faces on the WWE roster.

Becky would say that it’s been two years since she was SmackDown Women’s Champion, and that there were many times that she thought she may never get back that title. She would go on to say that she knew if she just kept pushing, that eventually she would get back to where she once was, and that she wasn’t born to be a champion, but she fought to be a champion.

Enter Charlotte Flair.

After Becky’s promo, Carmella would interrupt and eventually distract Becky with the playing of recently fired James Ellsworth’s music to attack Becky from behind. Charlotte would make her return after being out of action for a couple of months to make the save for her BFF Becky.

This would later lead to General Manager Paige making the announcement that there would later be a match between Charlotte and Carmella where if Charlotte won, she would be added to the title match at SummerSlam, making it a triple threat match.

Charlotte would go on to win this match, therefore being added to the match that Becky Lynch had worked for two years to get into.

After the match, Becky did a great job of subtly selling her feelings on Charlotte’s win, looking very frustrated. This lead to the speculation of Becky Lynch possibly turning heel in the midst of this program.

I am here to tell you that would be a mistake.

Becky Lynch has not even scratched the surface of the potential she has as a babyface. While she has been fantastic in any role she’s been given, she hasn’t gotten the chance to have a bigger role and run with it.

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Which brings me to Charlotte. Looking at Charlotte since she came to SmackDown and turned face, if you ask me, she’s been very underwhelming. Her promos since then have been not great to put it lightly. Her delivery as a face has always come off as very wooden and robotic sometimes.

As a heel though? Well, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Like father Ric, a heel Charlotte was one of the best performers on the roster in every aspect. As a promo, no one could get people to hate her more than Charlotte in the women’s division. In the ring, Charlotte was fantastic at getting heat and setting up the comeback for whoever she was working with, and that’s the Charlotte I love.

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If we just look at it from a kayfabe perspective, Becky has worked long and hard for two years to get back into the women’s title picture, while Charlotte on the other hand walks back in from injury and is immediately given a chance to be in a title match.

What this can lead to is the point where Becky is tired of this and stands up to Charlotte, and tells her how she’s worked for so long for this match, but all you had to do was show up. Charlotte in response to this could kind of just be like “yeah, so what?”

What I would do with this is have Charlotte win the match at SummerSlam when Becky Lynch has Carmella in the disarm-her, but Charlotte gets back in the ring and throws Becky into ring post, hits Natural Selection on Carmella, gets the pin, wins the title. Robbing Becky of what appeared to be her moment.

This could set up to Becky Lynch earning one more title match at WWE Evolution, where she can finally have her moment and defeat Charlotte to win the title. Or it could even work if you have Charlotte have a longer reign with the title, and hold off on Becky winning even further. Either way it works.

The series of matches between a heel Charlotte and a face Becky I believe could be some of the best women’s matches we’ve seen in a long time. With how great Charlotte was at getting heat and being a heel champion a couple years ago, and with the connection Becky Lynch has with the fans and how much they want to see her succeed, I think it could be something special.

The important thing here is that both women are put in the best possible position to succeed. Becky Lynch is at her best as a face, Charlotte is at her best as a heel.