Nia Jax reflects on infamous WWE match against Charlotte Flair
While appearing on a new episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Nia Jax detailed what went down in her infamous August 2021 match against Charlotte Flair.
The match, which took place on the August 30, 2021 episode of WWE Raw, is notable for how Jax and Flair became frustrated with one another and briefly exchanged real strikes. Jax noted on Insight that things got “heated” after a miscommunication, but they were quickly able to calm themselves down backstage.
“My match with Charlotte, where we kind of got into a little tiff, a little back and forth there. You know, it was a miscommunication. I will say I’m going to call it a miscommunication,” Jax said. “Things got heated, like legit got heated in that match. And I did warn her a few times to stop, like to chill out. And she didn’t. And so then I two-pieced her.
“And, you know, we came back and once we were calm and we were level-headed, we all kind of were just like, ‘All right, got kind of out of hand.’ But sometimes it happens. But yeah, it just got a little out of hand. It got hot and we just started swinging.”
Van Vliet asked if things are good between Jax and Flair now.
“Oh, yeah. We’re good,” Jax responded. “But it was definitely, everybody was like, ‘What just happened?’ Even the crowd, because when it happened in the moment, I couldn’t hear anything because I was angry. Like, I was legit pissed. So I didn’t hear anything. But then when I felt the dead silence of the crowd, like I think the crowd was kind of like, ‘Is this really happening?’ And I could hear Corey Graves. Commentary is the only thing I could hear because that crowd was dead silent, because I think they were kind of in shock, like, ‘What just happened?’ So, yeah, it was definitely a moment. So that was a match [where] I’m like, ‘Oh.’ But then we were able to redeem ourselves after that.”
In November 2021, Jax was released by WWE in a round of roster cuts. She has now been back with the company since 2023. When asked about future matchups she wants to have, Jax told Van Vliet that she’d like to face Raquel Rodriguez in a big “hoss match.”
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