The Man character portrayed by Becky Lynch is one of the most successful gimmicks to be produced by WWE. It has taken the concerned superstar to the top of the fame that a female wrestler can achieve. Plus, she continues to break down the barriers to prove herself to be a benchmark competitor in the world of pro-wrestling.
Becky Lynch Reveals She Lied To Her Mother While Pursuing WWE Career
Becky Lynch is undoubtedly the most popular female pro-wrestler of the world for the past couple of years who has also completed 365 years as the Women’s Champion, earlier this month. Here in this article, we take a look at the top 10 facts from Lynch’s life and career.
Becky took initial wrestling training at Finn Balor’s wrestling school
Initially, Becky Lynch was about to begin a career in kickboxing which did not happen courtesy of her brother. He got to learn about a wrestling school run by Paul Tracy and Fergal Devitt, aka Finn Balor and admitted her sister to it. She was 15 at the time she began training with Balor and started performing around the independent circuit all over the United Kingdom.
She had to retire, once in her career
Her journey to the WWE was not that easy as she once had to retire from wrestling around 2006. She damaged the eighth cranial nerve which was not supposed to get her back to wrestling. So she stepped away from the wrestling scene for seven years to pursue a course in acting. Becky Lynch also worked as a flight attendant with her mother for two years before making up mind that she can’t stay away from wrestling. Thus, she overcame both of her broken ankles, two stingers in her neck, and not to mention the head injury.
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Becky is a clown & Pearl Jam fanatic
Becky Lynch is well-known for her love of puns and clowns. She absolutely loves to observe the fun antics made by them and she even tried the same during her NXT debut in 2014. “I studied clown. I studied the art of clown. I actually did my thesis on clowns,” she stated in an interview with wrestlingINC.com. Becky is also fond of Pearl Jam music as stated in an interview with Sports Illustrated, “All these songs made me think, Oh my God, this is the music that got me through all these hard times and motivated me to get where I am, and here I am at Fenway Park watching Pearl Jam.”
Becky worked at wrestling academy owned by Paige’s mother
She debuted on WWE main roster in 2015 being part of Team PCB, also featuring Paige and Charlotte Flair. This was not the first time that she was working with Paige or in a stable. Under the name of Becky Knox, she beat Paige’s mom Sweet Saraya in France, for the vacated Queens of Chaos Championship. Becky Lynch returned to the wrestling ring in 2011 as a manager for the Knight Dynasty formed by Sweet Saraya and Britani Knight (Paige).
Becky’s Royal Rumble records
Becky Lynch was the first entrant of the first Women’s Royal Rumble match that took place in 2018. One year later, she re-entered the same match unofficially to consummate the place of Lana who was attacked by Nia Jax and ended up winning the match. Thus, she is the only superstar in WWE history to win a Royal Rumble who was not in the match, in the first place.
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Only Woman to win main-event Wrestlemania
This win led her to the only women’s main event in the history of Wrestlemania that took place at the MetLife Stadium in 2019 in New York, New Jersey. Becky Lynch participated in the triple threat match along with Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey to win the matchup and become a dual champion that night. She is the only woman to win the Women’s Wrestlemania main event as well hold the Raw & Smackdown Women’s title, at the same time.
Only woman to pin Ronda Rousey in WWE
En route to her victory at the Women’s Wrestlemania main event, Becky Lynch eventually pinned Ronda Rousey. She is the only woman to do so against the most dominant female combat sports athlete in the history of the United States which itself is a big achievement.
Longest reign with WWE Raw women’s title
Starting from April 7th of 2019, Becky Lynch remains the WWE Raw women’s champion, to date. It makes her the longest-reigning champ (375+ days) with the concerned belt beating her predecessors like Ronda Rousey and Alexa Bliss. She is also the one to win a championship at a Wrestlemania and successfully defend the same belt at the next Wrestlemania.
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First woman to cover WWE 2K video game
These accolades made her The Man, indeed who can be recognized as the face of the WWE Women’s Division. So, last year, Becky Lynch had the honor of covering the WWE 2K video game along with Roman Reigns. This is the first time that a female superstar has featured in the same bracket with legendary John Cena, Sting, Stone Cold Steve Austin and more.
Becky Lynch is the highest-paid female wrestler of the world
Becky Lynch is the highest-earning female wrestler in the whole world, today who draws a paycheck of around $3.1 million from WWE, as per Forbes information. She is also the only on-screen female talent present in the top 10 highest paid superstars’ list with all the other male superstars. Stephanie McMahon is also there on the list but she is a businesswoman as well as an entrepreneur.
