The WrestleMania 42
media blitz is in full swing, with WWE Superstar interviews dropping left and right. Only some of them include staged attacks or assaults, but most of them include a discussion-worthy quote.Becky Lynch gave us a couple from her chat with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, out today (April 16).
In interviews during her hiatus and around her return at WrestleMania last year, Lynch had been talking retirement. On the second season of Netflix’s WWE UnReal docuseries that came out this past
January, The Man said her current contract would be her last. But while admitting there’s still a possibility she could retire without inking another deal, as she’d like to spend more time with daughter Roux and maybe even adding to her family with Seth Rollins, she’s now clarifying it wasn’t a commitment:
“I mean, I didn’t say it with such assuredness as you did, right? I said it’s probably my last one. I think I said this is likely my last one.
“That’s not a sure (thing), but, yeah, no, it might be, could be.”
“I don’t know, it could be longer, but you never want to outstay your welcome. Although, I’m in my prime, I can go, plenty left in the tank. But I also have my daughter at home, and maybe I’ll want another one, and at some point, you have to just be happy with what you’ve done.”
“But again, the love of what I do, that’s not going anywhere, but there’s a lot that goes in, around it and behind it. I suppose you never want to leave spinning your wheels. You always want to try, but again, that’s also not true because sometimes I just go ‘what do I want to do? What do I think is fun? Maybe nobody else will, but this is what I want to do.’”
Yeah, still sounds pretty undecided. What Lynch isn’t undecided on is the need to re-summon the spirit of WWE’s Divas/Womens Revolution/Evolution, and her own 2018-2019 rise that culminated in a win over Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair in the only women’s match to close a WrestleMania (Sasha “Mercedes Moné” Banks and Bianca Belair main event-ed Saturday of WrestleMania 37, but that Triple Threat two years early is the only one to main event a WrestleMania Sunday or one-night edition of the event).
In discussing her desire to leave the business better than when she found it, the WWE Grand Slam champ said:
“I know that what I have done is prove that women could be the biggest stars in this company, and they are and can be. I think sometimes we need to fight to make sure we’re positioned as such, because you can be a huge name, but if you’re not positioned in the main event. It’s very easy when we condition the audience, ‘This person’s the main event, this person’s the main event, this person’s the main event,’ we see them as the main event. When we don’t condition the audience, then it becomes a little bit harder.
“And for the last few years, I think we’ve, for the most part, those main events have gone to two, maybe three, four dudes constantly. I think we need to change that again. I think we need to. I don’t know what that means, whether that means fighting a bit more, whether it’s me or somebody else.”
Women are certainly getting more time on television and PPV/PLE than ever before, and we’ve heard the biggest stars are finally seeing big paydays. But momentum does seem to have been lost when it comes to being presented as equals on big cards.
Check out the rest of her appearance on Insight — especially if you enjoy watching wrestlers answer questions legitimately while in character — embedded above. And let us know what you think of Becky Lynch’s attempt to motivate the women’s roster (and fans of women’s wrestling) to fight for big matches and spots in the uppercard, and the news The Man might stick around longer than you may have thought she was, in the comments below.
