Becky Lynch is a true star among all the WWE Superstars be it male or female names combined. Starting all the way back in the company, eight years ago, she found success and rose to stardom, perhaps like no one else could have accomplished. The journey beyond the WWE started even long ago before that, helping her to reach a brand new milestone in her professional wrestling career.
A Twitter user shared a picture of NWA Ireland’s 2002 batch, in which Becky Lynch was featured as the only female wrestler. The WWE Raw roster member noticed the tweet and retweeted it before noting that she’s been celebrating the 20-year-anniversary in the wrestling business. The short message was accompanied by the tweet which goes as follows,
“Wow. 20 years. What a ride.”
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Wow. 20 years. What a ride. https://t.co/EwMGm4pW6l
— The Man (@BeckyLynchWWE) October 20, 2022
Becky Lynch had an incredible journey in her pro-wrestling career
Real-name, Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch was born in Limerick but she was raised in Dublin, Ireland. She started liking the wrestling business at a very young age alongside her older brother Richard. In WWE: 24 documentary on the WWE Network, she credited Richard to be the one who was responsible for her early going in professional wrestling. It was he who took her to the wrestling academy of WWE Superstar Finn Balor.
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Becky Lynch’s career almost ended multiple years ago
As seen in the photo, Becky Lynch was the only female out of 40 students in the inaugural bunch of Balor’s school named the Fight Factory. Her in-ring abilities were dictated as “terrible”, “uncoordinated” and “a complete disaster,” while Balor diagnosed her as already a star who was yet to realize her full potential.
Back in 2006, Becky Lynch suffered an injury due to which she had to step away from active competition. “I got injured in a match, I was 19, I was away from home, living in Florida and I just got lost,” she stated in an interview with ESPN. “I couldn’t face it, so I stepped away. It was like a death for me, and that is not an exaggeration. I struggled for years to find what I wanted to do.”
Down the road, she made a comeback to the ring after a seven-year hiatus before getting recruited by the WWE in 2014. Since then, she reached new heights of greatness by becoming the only superstar to have won both RAW and SmackDown Women’s Titles at the same time the first-ever all-female WrestleMania main event. Winning the Royal Rumble 2019 edition, she’s also the longest-reigning Raw women’s champion who won the gold on multiple occasions.
