WWE Raw star and the current WWE Raw Women’s champion Bianca Belair who is also a former WWE SmackDown Women’s champion recently talked about losing to Becky Lynch in 26 seconds at SummerSlam last year and explained how it felt to her.
Bianca Belair had been one of the biggest prospects of WWE since joining the main roster. She was given an instant push as she won the Women’s Royal Rumble match last year and challenged Sasha Banks for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 37. She won the title and kept on retaining it till SummerSlam pay per view event.
Bianca Belair Reveals How It Felt Losing To Becky Lynch In 26 Seconds
She was scheduled to face Sasha Banks in a rematch at SummerSlam. But Sasha picked up an injury and got ruled out of the match. It was one of the most anticipated matches of the night so naturally the fans were quite unhappy. But they got a bigger surprise at the event as Sasha was replaced by a former WWE Women’s champion.
And that former Women’s champion turned out to be none other than the returning star Becky Lynch who returned to action after one and a half year. She shocked the entire world when she defeated Bianca in only 26 seconds to snatch The Smackdown Women’s Championship away from her. But thankfully, Bianca’s continued after this event and right now she is the WWE RAW Women’s champion.
Bianca Belair who is also a former WWE SmackDown Women’s champion recently spoke to WWE After The Bell with Corey Graves where she talked about losing to Becky Lynch in 26 seconds at SummerSlam last year and explained how it felt to her. She said;
“I just really realized in that moment, like, as quickly as it came for me, my very first year on the main roster, I was main-eventing Wrestlemania and now I’m the champion. As quickly as it can come, it can go, and that’s what literally happened to me. In that moment, it was rough because I’m just like, I was thinking I’m doing everything right.
“I’m champion and then I lose. I’m just like, where do you go from there when you feel like you’ve done everything right and everything still fails? So it was rough. My husband helped check my perspective. I hung around my family that night to cheer me up. I always try to keep a perspective that when I was champion, my thing was I never wanted it to just be about me.
“I want it to be about my fans, I want people to feel, and I want it to be about my impact. So like, yeah, I lost at SummerSlam in 26 seconds, but the impact that I have on people is going to last way longer than 26 seconds. So I was just trying to turn this negative into a positive. For me, I’m all about moments. I want to be a part of huge moments in WWE, So at SummerSlam, granted, I lost in 26 seconds, but my name was in the conversation of the biggest moment at SummerSlam.”
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