Charlotte Flair Talks About Paul Heyman & Eric Bischoff’s New Roles, SmackDown To Fox

8-time WWE Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair spoke with MySanAntonio this week to promote Tuesday’s edition of SmackDown Live. If you haven’t already, check out our 5 Takeaways from the show.

During the discussion, Charlotte spoke about Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff’s new roles with WWE as well as SmackDown’s move to Fox in October.

Last week, WWE announced Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff have been appointed as Executive Directors of Raw and SmackDown. In their new capacities, Heyman and Bischoff will oversee the creative development of their respective shows.

Charlotte complimented both Heyman and Bischoff, but does not expect the creative shakeup to have a big impact on her directly.

“I think it is great, and they are both very talented men with creative minds, but we have so many writers and people that work with us on creative. It is exciting, but it is doesn’t change my role,” Flair said.

“However, having two people that have been a part of the industry for so long and seen the changes and been with different companies and back, I think that it adds a lot to them being really good in that role and helps bring new stories.”
SmackDown’s Move to Fox

Charlotte is excited for SmackDown’s move to Fox this fall. She believes it’s a huge opportunity for WWE to to reach a larger audience on a channel with even broader distribution. She also believes the move will reignite the rivalry between Raw and SmackDown.

“The move on Friday nights is going to be huge, too, moving to the weekend and then adding competition,” she said. “It’s USA [Network] versus Fox. I know it is the same company, but whoever is on Smackdown is going to be better than Raw, and whoever is on Raw will want to be better than Smackdown.”