Becky Lynch has already had an eventful WWE career as one of the Four Horsewomen, a participant in the first women’s Money in the Bank and Royal Rumble matches, the winner of the first intergender match on WWE TV in years, and an escapee of being turned evil by a hat.
In an interview with the Phoenix New Times, she reveals there’s a lot more she wants to do, including become one of the first women to main event WrestleMania:
“The goal has always been to be the first woman to main-event WrestleMania, and you know that’s what you want to do and that’s your goal and that’s what you set off to achieve. I think we’re on the cusp of it. I don’t know if it’s going to be this year. I think it’s plausible. I don’t see a reason why not.”
Here’s Lynch’s philosophy on who should get to main event on The Grandest Stage Of Them All (TM), which I think most wrestling fans would agree with:
“Here is my bottom line of what I really want: a good emotional build in the characters toward [the main event.] And I would like to see that starting so that people are so invested that there is no doubt whatsoever that whoever is main-eventing WrestleMania — if it’s girls, guys, whoever — they should be the main event.”
She also talked about how she’d like to see the WWE Women’s [R]Evolution continue:
“Here’s the thing. It’s one thing to have all these firsts and we can make a big celebration of the first Royal Rumble, the first ladder match, the first Elimination Chamber, and all these things that are coming up, which are all wonderful. That’s great. Of course, I’d like to see the first woman’s tag team champs and then be that and be the first woman to main-event WrestleMania.
“What I think would be better than that is making it consistent and making it normalized and being able to interchange it so that it doesn’t even become a gender thing anymore. It’s a talent thing, it’s a character thing. And getting it to where it’s so normalized that we almost don’t even notice … it’s just consistent and everybody has that high level of skill. And the audience is invested in all of the characters, regardless of their gender.”
But despite all the progress for women in the WWE over the past few years, Lynch still believes they have to work harder than men to prove themselves because “when you’re trying to overcome something and prove something, you always have to work harder and you always have to give that 110 percent.”
Lynch chose to remain pretty neutral about noted sign-pointer and Glacier-esque-video-package-getter Ronda Rousey’s future in the WWE, saying that although she’s an amazing athlete and “a colossal superstar … I’m curious to see what she can do in a wrestling ring, because it’s a different kettle of fish.”
Rousey has already challenge Lynch as part of that Four Horsewomen of MMA vs. Four Horseman of WWE feud that hopefully will pay off over the next few years. Even though they’re on different shows right now, it can’t be too long before we see these two face off, especially now that PPVs are once again co-branded.
