The intentions may have been pure, but to me, comparing anyone to Randy Orton may as well be telling them they’re vanilla ice cream, so when Ric Flair said his daughter Charlotte was akin to the female equivalent of Randy Orton, well, that’s not necessarily a compliment as far as I’m concerned.
Frankly, Ric probably should’ve stuck with naming all the attributes he thinks Randy Orton has that he loves, and applied those to Charlotte without actually naming Randy Orton, but what’s done is done.
Ric Flair thinks Charlotte is boring, stale, never-changing, and getting put into a program with her is getting put into the friend zone of WWE Creative for the women’s division.
To which by that logic, is completely untrue and unfair to Charlotte, to compare her to Randy Orton.
Randy Orton, is exactly what I said he is, and he genuinely is the equivalent of being put into the friend zone. Poor Edge, makes this monumental comeback after nine years of forced retirement, and then is immediately thrown into the slammer of WWE Creative, being forced to run a months-long program with Randy Orton.
Most wrestling fans can only guess the queue of younger guys salivating at the dream of getting to work with Edge, and I can only imagine the potential four-star+ matches that could be had if he got to work with guys like Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, Johnny Gargano or Tommaso Ciampa. But instead, the WWE welcomed Edge back with a soul-crushing program with Randy Orton.
Charlotte Flair, on the other hand is in my opinion, genuinely the best female superstar in professional wrestling, bar none. Ric is definitely not wrong about that part, it’s just not fair or cool to compare her to Randy Orton.