4 times real-life incidents were used in storylines

#3: Paige bringing Reid Flair's death

Paige confronting Charlotte!

With Charlotte as "the face" of the Women's division and Paige being hot on her heel run, they had a contract signing in 2015, to put their coming matchup in ink.

Through the whole promo, Charlotte looked like she was ready to break down into hysterics, even when she wasn’t really saying much to get emotional over. She was basically just saying how much she idolized Paige and each close up showed her straining to hold back the tears.

As the promo went on Charlotte brought up her little brother Reid, who died of an accidental drug overdose. The hard-hitting one-liner of the segment came when Charlotte said that her family had been fighting their entire lives and she was going to do the same, and Paige fired off a brutal “You’re wrong because your baby brother didn’t have much fight in him,” before Charlotte attacked Paige.

This incident was met with so much backlash that the WWE dropped the angle immediately, and have not mentioned it since. Ric Flair went on to say that no permission had been given by him to run that line and that only went further to make the WWE look bad.

This was still when the fans needed to be told the “Divas Revolution” was a thing every single time the women were in the ring so basically, the division still had to be improved. I can see the outrage as reasonable, especially if no one allowed it.