10 Wrestling Matches That Turned Into Real Shoots
Sometimes the fists start flying for real...
1. Charlotte Flair Vs. Nia Jax - Raw (August 30, 2021)
Was it a shoot? Was it a work? Was it a worked-shoot? Did they not know it was a work and worked a work and worked themselves into a shoot (marks)?
It was hard to tell for a bit, but the fact is something happened during Nia Jax and Charlotte's match on the August 30, 2021 episode of Raw and it was just about the most interesting thing to happen on WWE's flagship for about five years.
The match was not going well to start with, but at some point it got a whole lot worse and the two were quite clearly not cooperating.
The thing that perhaps set things up was Nia's back suplex to Charlotte, which dropped her hard and at a bit of an angle, because after that the two were on the verge of throwing fists, with Jax audibly saying 'girl don't' to her opponent and trying to swat her away.
The Queen started to sandbag on moves and threw out a few pushes and slaps, with Nia firing back a couple of receipts. Their timing was thrown completely off as there were several awkward moments where one tried to do some pre-planned moves, only for the other not to have gotten the memo.
Things mercifully came to an end when Nia pinned Charlotte following a (very stiff) powerbomb.
Written by Lewis Howse
Features journalist for Cultaholic.com and script writer for the Cultaholic YouTube Channel.
