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Alexa Bliss discussed what led to the forming of her tag team with Charlotte Flair during a recent interview.

Bliss appeared on the In The Kliq podcast to promote Friday’s edition of WWE SmackDown, which will take place at the SAP Center in San Jose. She was asked about how her team with Flair began and responded that she pitched the idea to WWE creative.

Bliss said:

“t’s been so fun working with Charlotte. This was something that came about very, kind of randomly. We were talking to creative, and I threw it out there.”

“They gave me a list of names of people who were kind of in this little bubble of needing storylines and I was like, ‘Well, what about Charlotte? We have this long past.’”

“We’ve been having fun with it. You know, our entrances, our little pushing, pulling, all this stuff, that’s just us improv’ing and just having fun with it. It’s been a lot of fun. I was right we would be successful because now we’re tag team champions.”

“We get to see a different side of me, a different side of Charlotte, which I think is so fun. To see her open up and have fun as a character, because we saw before just a character that was mainly going for a singles title, and then my character, after joining Bray, was never really focused on any titles. So it’s fun to see the mesh of the two come together as this kind of odd couple and allies of convenience. It’s been a lot of fun, and I think that’s what resonates with the audience is that we’re naturally having fun and I think it allows the audience to have fun with us.”

Bliss and Flair won the tag titles at SummerSlam this year, defeating the then-champions Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez of Judgment Day. They’ve since successfully defended the belts three times on WWE programming: against Judgment Day again on the August 4 episode of Raw, against The Culling’s Izzi Dame and Tatum Paxley at NXT Homecoming, and against Alba Fyre and Chelsea Green on the September 19 episode of Raw. Bliss has now held the tag titles four times with three different partners: twice with Nikki Cross, once with Asuka, and now with Flair.

Bliss’ full appearance on In The Kliq is available below:

Alexa Bliss spoke about her WWE return and the reaction she received at the 2025 Royal Rumble during an appearance on The Nikki & Brie Show.

Bliss said she didn’t get called about being in the women’s Rumble match until midnight the night before the show, was on a plane at 10 AM that morning, and arrived at the building just two hours before it started.

She said:

“I got the call at midnight the night before and it wasn’t fully decided until like 4:00 AM. And I get a call at five, they’re like, ‘Alright, we need you on a plane by 10:00 AM.'”

“So no one would see me, I flew to Cincinnati, drove in, had to cover up, got snuck into a back room.”

“I didn’t get there until four, we are the first match starting at six,” she added.

Following her return, Dave Meltzer reported in the February 10 edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Bliss’ agent finalized a deal with WWE either the night before or the day of the Rumble and that Bliss signed a new five-year contract just before the show began. Weeks earlier, it was reported that they were at an impasse in negotiations.

Bliss says that when she arrived at the building she discussed what she would do in the match with Bayley and Natalya but her return was otherwise kept secret until she got to the Gorilla position.

“I owe all that to Bayley and (Natalya) cause they were so great about coming in, sneaking in and being like, ‘Alright, what are we doing?”

Bliss also spoke about the reaction she received when she came out as a surprise entrant in the Rumble. She says it was one of the rare times in her career that she’s been able to be in the moment and soak in the crowd’s response.

“I was so just taken aback and in the moment of it. I think that was one of the first times I’ve really just been in the moment (during) an entrance besides my first WrestleMania. Because a lot of times when I’m doing my entrance, I’m still thinking about what’s coming next. I get so nervous and I’m not able to enjoy the moment. And that was one of those ones where I just kind of actually took in the moment and I was like, ‘Wow, this is, this is pretty cool.'”

Charlotte Flair and Bliss will be in the Women’s Tag Team title match at Evolution after winning a qualifying match on SmackDown. Bliss said that she and Flair have had a bond since their days in NXT together.

“We’ve always had just this fun dynamic with each other. We always work really well together and we’ve always had this weird bond from NXT that we just always kind of gravitate towards each other.”

She added that one of her favorite matches is her vs. Flair at Survivor Series 2017.

Bliss’ full appearance on the podcast is available below: