Becky Lynch On Her Connection To The Crowd
– WWE Superstar Becky Lynch recently spoke with The Baltimore Sun on a wide variety of topics, check out the highlights below:
It’s been a pretty wild past couple of months for you. Let’s go back to SummerSlam. You have the title match, Charlotte wins and you attack her after. Yet, the crowd voraciously cheers for you. What was that moment like for you?
It was incredible. It was incredible to know that the people felt my frustration. This isn’t something that’s just popped up over a week or a month, it’s been three years in the making of just constantly being the underdog and fighting from underneath. Finally, enough is enough and I think everybody has felt that — when they’ve tried their best and tried their hardest and they haven’t gotten ahead. Eventually you just snap and say, “Enough is enough and I’m going after what I want and what I deserve and I don’t care who I have to take out in the process. I’m doing it. I’m making it.” To feel that myself and then have everyone in full support of that, it was a great moment.
Is that why you feel like you have such a great connection with the crowd, the fact that they can relate to you? Or is there something else that you feel makes your bond with the fans so strong?
I think that’s part of it. I think they know that I love them as well. I think that they know I love wrestling and I love this sport. I think they’re fans because they love wrestling, right? So when they can see that passion mirrored, they appreciate that. It’s also that I think I give off an energy anytime I meet fans. I hope I let them know how much I appreciate them. I think that’s all part of it and I just feel very lucky.
The other big moment you’ve had recently, obviously, is winning the SmackDown women’s title for the second time. Obviously both times you’ve won the title were big, validating in different ways, but is there one moment you put over the other?
Yes, I would definitely say the second time was better. The first time, I was almost apologetic. I wanted the SmackDown women’s division to be the division, and be the thing that people watched. And we made it that. So I almost felt apologetic that everybody wasn’t getting the championship. I wanted everybody to succeed. I wasn’t concentrating enough on myself, or there was a part of me that wasn’t sure that I deserved it or maybe I was just concerned that I wouldn’t do a good job with it. This time around, I know I deserve it and I’m going to do a great job with it. I’m going to be the best champ of all time. It’s been two long years to get back to this point, but every minute has been worth it.
Last time you won the title in a multi-woman match, that was simply about the title, and there weren’t really feuds involved. This time, you won it in the midst of a deeply personal feud with Charlotte. Did beating Charlotte, and pinning her cleanly, make the moment even more special?
Absolutely. It was said that the only reason I won the first time around was because she wasn’t there. She was right there and I pinned her this time, so what does that say? And of course Charlotte is, possibly, one of the greatest. I wouldn’t say the greatest because that’s me, but one of the greatest female superstars that we’ve ever had in WWE. Absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt. There’s nobody that’s tougher in that ring. But I beat her. And I beat her again. And I’ll beat her again and again, and I’ll beat her at the Last Woman Standing and cement my legacy.
As we’ve gone through this feud, we’ve seen you attack her from behind, jump out of the crowd and you’ve gotten yourself disqualified intentionally. Yet the crowd still cheers you. Is that something that’s concerning to you at all, that you can’t get those boos?
It’s not concerning. They’re reacting and they’re entertained. They’re enjoying the feud. It’s just a matter of what side that they’re on. Some people are on my side and some people are on Charlotte’s side. I do see it on my Twitter feed and Instagram, that I’m getting a lot more hate as it goes on. But it’s OK, I’m going after what I want. The people that are behind me, they’ll stay behind me. The people that aren’t, well that’s fine. I’ll just go ahead and succeed in spite of them.
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Of course, we have Evolution right around the corner, a big event for you and of course all the women in WWE. What does that show mean to you to have an all-women’s pay-per-view?
It’s amazing. This is what I envisioned when I came over to WWE. I always felt that I wanted to be the women to be the coolest thing on TV. I wanted to make it that way. Through everybody’s hard work, past present and future with NXT and the Mae Young Classic, this has been deserved. It’s something that I think the fans are going to really enjoy. They’re going to really enjoy it a whole lot more if the SmackDown women’s champ is main eventing it and walks out with the title.
