Former WWE Women’s World Champion Becky Lynch has managed to beat all odds to become the face of modern women’s wrestling. But it wasn’t easy. In an interview with NFL Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman on “Games with Names,” Lynch said it was difficult for her to tell her mother that she wanted to do wrestling.
Advertising
“After taking a year off from college, I was back home with my mom and I asked, ‘What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Are you going to go back to college? Get a real job? What are you going to do?'” Lynch said.
Lynch wanted to set an example for her mother of what she wanted to do, but faced a challenge from both the offensive wrestling in the United States and the tough Japanese style.
“The women weren’t treated like the athletes and stars that we are today (in the United States),” Lynch added. “There were still a lot of pillow fights and all that stuff and bra and panty fights… They weren’t really taken seriously… nobody was watching them for the main event. I couldn’t say, ‘Well, this is what I want to do on TV.’ What I was watching… what I wanted to do was these obscure promotions in Japan where the women were better than any man I’d ever seen. They kicked the shit out of each other. But I couldn’t show my mom that either!”
Advertising
Lynch soon returned to touring and even wrestled in Japan, as she had dreamed of doing before she really made a name for herself in WWE. Lynch’s last match before her WWE contract expired came on May 28, which was a rematch clause for the WWE Women’s World Championship on “WWE Monday Night RAW,” just days after she lost the title to Liv Morgan at the King and Queen of the Ring premium event in Saudi Arabia. For now, Lynch is enjoying her time away from the ring, despite the looming uncertainty of if or when she will renew her contract with the company, go elsewhere, pursue a new project outside of wrestling, partially retire, or call it a career for good.
If you use any of the quotes from this article, please credit Games with Names with ah/t to Wrestling Inc. as the source for the transcription.
