Should Charlotte Flair turn heel?

3. Point: The Flair family ethos

For all his popularity now, Ric Flair was best known as a heel. Maybe Charlotte should be, too.

Charlotte Flair’s famous father Ric went by the moniker, “The Dirtiest Player in the Game.” He was a face for portions of his career, and popular even as a heel after he found his bearings.

He nonetheless did most of his best and most famous work as a heel, including leading the Four Horsemen, betraying Sting over and over, feuding with Ricky Steamboat and Dusty Rhodes, winning his two WWE Championships, and filling a player coach type role for Evolution.

Sure, Charlotte carries with her the nostalgia based popularity of her old man, and WWE can trot him out to stand in her corner for big moments as needed.

At the end of the day, though, if we’re to accept her as her father’s daughter, she’s the brethren of an all time great wrestling heel. Everything that follows, from her opulent robes to her tendency to win championships sets her up as someone easy for fans to go against.