If it seemed like WWE booked a rather anticlimactic end to Charlotte’s pay-per-view (PPV) win streak, which reached 16-0, that’s because they did. Bayley ended it at Fastlane when she successfully retained the Raw women’s championship with an assist from Sasha Banks.

It was strange, considering the story they could have told with it. But, as Charlotte herself said in a recent interview with Jim Norton and Sam Roberts, it was just a statistic, not a story:

“Two ways to look at it. Well, when I started people started being like ‘you have a pay-per-view streak going on’, I’m like 'what?' I was 16-0 which was weird, cause, I, it became 16, it was 16-0 then (John) Cena won the 16 time… I, no, I don’t think they put anything into (that), there was no thought put into that. ... No, but I was just, I kept racking up numbers. I’m like 'well, you have a pay-per-view streak.' So because I didn’t really think about it, I didn’t... it was more of a statistic than a story. When it happened... I just hope the equity of that went to Bayley. I hope that's grasped. More of like 'damn, that hugging lovable girl just ended that.' If viewers think of it... I really didn't think of it. I was more like 'god, I'm so stressed.' I had to be that on every month, you know? But, yeah, I can't... it is what it is."

That makes it easier to take, right?

Here’s the full interview: