Charlotte Flair Kneeing Ronda Rousey
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Charlotte Flair Kneeing Ronda Rousey refers to a moment from Monday Night Raw when wrestler Charlotte Flair kneed Ronda Rousey's face as it hung outside of a cop car during a brawl between the two and Becky Lynch. The moment became a meme among wrestling fans, seeing use in reaction images and video remixes.
Origin
On April 1st, 2019, the final Monday Night Raw before Wrestlemania XXXV, Charlotte Flair, Ronda Rousey, and Becky Lynch got into a brawl that caused security to attempt to break them up and eventually all three were in handcuffs. At one point, Rousey kicked through the door of a police car and stuck her head out the broken window. Charlotte Flair came and kneed her in the face (shown below).
Spread
Wrestling fans quickly began joking about the moment with reaction images and video remixes. Some of the jokes played into an angle of the story where Rousey's character had been intentionally breaking kayfabe by saying wrestling is fake. User @simonmiller316[1] did a "Record Scratch Freeze Frame* joke about the angle, gaining over 250 retweets and 1,200 likes (shown below, left). Flair[2] herself played into the angle on Twitter, gaining over 5,200 retweets and 24,000 likes (shown below, right).
Video edits include an edit by user @EditKrisEdit, who set the moment to "Sweet Dreams" by Eurhythmics, gaining over 4,600 retweets and 13,000 likes (shown below, top) and an edit by @GAYS0NLYEVENT that set it to "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani, gaining over 660 retweets and 1,500 likes (shown below, bottom). The jokes were covered by Comicbook.com.[3]
Everything's better with the Eurythmics… pic.twitter.com/SHB8chn3q1
— 𝐊𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐬𝐨𝐧 (@EditKrisEdit) April 2, 2019
don't say anything just watch 2.0
MsCharlotteWWE</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RAW</a> <a href="https://t.co/eQyPiheYq3">pic.twitter.com/eQyPiheYq3</a></p>— kari // double champ! (GAYS0NLYEVENT) April 2, 2019
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External References
[1] Twitter – @simonmiller316
[2] Twitter – @mscharlottewwe
[3] Comicbook – Wrestling Twitter Turns Charlotte Flair's Knee to Ronda Rousey's Face Into a Meme
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