Backstage, Charlotte Flair is rolling her bag down the hall.

Source: https://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2023/7/14/23794617/wwe-smackdown-results-live-blog-july-14-2023-asuka-bianca-belair-womens-championship-rematch-jey-uso

Bianca Belair, Asuka, Drew McIntyre, AJ Styles, Sheamus, and Charlotte Flair are nowhere to be found.

Source: https://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2023/9/2/23856409/wwe-payback-2023-preview-john-cena-host-no-bloodline-trish-stratus-becky-lynch-steel-cage-nakamura

Booker T speculated on his podcast that WWE is doing Charlotte Flair vs. Rhea Ripley at because of the former’s Hollywood aspirations.

Source: https://www.cagesideseats.com/2023/8/13/23823877/rumor-look-back-feb-6-12-2023-wwe-aew-la-knight-alexa-bliss

Charlotte Flair and Bianca Belair came face to face on Friday Night SmackDown as Belair agreed to give The Queen a shot at the WWE Women’s Championship IF she beats Asuka on the Blue Brand.

Source: https://www.foxsports.com/watch/play-6840b1cde000102

Charlotte Flair was at ringside and did play into the action, laying out Bayley at ringside causing a distraction.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/23/wwe-smackdown-results-bloodline-decimates-john-cena-aj-styles-19545736/

Multi-time WWE Women's Champion Charlotte Flair is married to AEW's Andrade El Idolo.

Source: https://comicbook.com/wwe/news/wwe-womens-champion-rhea-ripley-and-aews-buddy-matthews-get-engaged/

Recent social media activity has led to heavy speculation Charlotte Flair will be back very soon.

Source: https://www.cagesideseats.com/2023/5/21/23724948/rumor-look-back-nov-14-20-2022-wwe-aew-cm-punk-gunther-roman-reigns

Shotzi has recently been teaming up with Bianca Belair and Charlotte Flair in an ongoing feud with Damage CTRL, which now boasts five total members (though Dakota Kai is still recovering from an injury).

Source: https://comicbook.com/wwe/news/wwe-smackdown-superstar-shotzi-just-got-married/

So, should she win the Rumble I would see her foregoing a rematch with her and instead aiming her sights on her old friend and bitterest rival, Charlotte Flair.

Source: https://www.cagesideseats.com/2023/1/27/23565666/the-most-intruiguing-choices-to-win-the-2023-womens-royal-rumble

The next week, Charlotte Flair, who after being off of TV since MITB, conveniently returned and somehow got a match with Carmella where if she won, she would get added to the Becky/Carmella match at Summerslam.

Source: https://www.cagesideseats.com/2023/1/8/23545945/the-nightly-january-8th-2023

To the ring, here comes Charlotte Flair to some pretty notable boos.

Source: https://411mania.com/wrestling/winfrees-wwe-smackdown-review-6-30-23/

We get an update on Charlotte Flair who injured her knee last week, no specific injury is noted though but the time table is supposed to be 9 months.

Source: https://411mania.com/wrestling/winfrees-wwe-smackdown-review-12-15-23/

WWE announced the news that Asuka will face Charlotte Flair and Bianca Belair beforehand instead.

Source: https://411mania.com/wrestling/wwe-changes-made-smackdown-drew-mcintyre-dark-match/