Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss capture spotlight in SmackDown tag-team showdown

By Correspondent On Jan 4, 2026

WWE had briefly contemplated to keep an 18-time champion underutilised after WrestleMania 41. Charlotte Flair came back in the 2025 Royal Rumble after a one-year hiatus caused by an injury and went on to win the entire tournament once again by tossing out Roxanne Perez last to make her a two-time winner (the first one was in 2020). The Queen shortly thereafter confronted Tiffany Stratton for the WWE Women’s Championship but was met with a defeat.

Behind the scenes of Flair and Bliss’ tag team championship run

Then, in June, Flair became a face and, though not very willingly, paired up with Alexa Bliss as “Allies of Convenience.” Their partnership, which was a bit unexpected, resulted in the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship when they took over the Judgment Day team of Perez and Raquel Rodriguez on Night 1 of SummerSlam on August 2.

The Allies of Convenience’s title run was a short one, lasting just 100 days, as they were defeated by The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) on the RAW aired on November 10, 2025. Flair talked recently about the tag-team with Bliss and how it wasn’t meant to be at first in an interview.

Charlotte Flair reflects on creative lull

In an interview with Clutchpoints, Charlotte Flair revealed that after the defeat against Tiffany Stratton at WrestleMania 41, the Stamford-based company had no creative plans for her and she was not sure about her future with the company. The Queen then went on to say that Alexa Bliss had been proposing that they be put together as a tag team.

“I wrote the essay, and then Lexi [Alexa Bliss] had been pitching to partner with me. And, I had been such an isolated character for so long. And then Evolution happened. I couldn’t have planned it better.

I had just gotten to a point where they had no creative for me after WrestleMania. What was next was to, I don’t know, rebuild. And like [John] Cena said, ‘Don’t be perfect, be you,’” Flair recalled.

Tag-team chaos on SmackDown sees Flair, Bliss, Ripley, and Sky victorious

In SmackDown this week, the Allies of Convenience (Flair and Bliss), along with RHIYO (Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky) got a big win over the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane), and Lash Legend and Nia Jax, in a great tag-team match.