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Why Charlotte Flair wasn’t pinned at WWE NXT TakeOver: In Your House

The main event of WWE NXT TakeOver: In Your House saw Io Shirai pin Rhea Ripley to win the NXT Women's Championship in the triple threat main event. Shirai pinned Ripley to win the title, instead of Charlotte who went into the match as the champion.

After the show, Triple H explained why Charlotte wasn't pinned during the post-show conference call:

The finish was done the way it was done tonight for a very specific reason. Some people will read into that an say, ‘Jeez Charlotte can’t even get beat by — now to me that whole rhetoric with her name and stuff and being Charlotte Flair and her dad and her name and all that stuff is garbage — she works as hard as anybody I’ve ever seen. She’s a great performer she deserves everything she’s ever gotten and has. This was done for very specific reasons for storytelling purposes and hopefully, if we get to tell the story the way we want to over the next coming months I think three or four months from now hopefully you’ll go ‘I know exactly why they did the finish that they did.'