Most of the pre-release hope for Netflix’s second season of WWE Unreal focused on R-Truth’s contract drama and her husband Seth Rollins’ fake knee injury & Money in the Bank cash-in, but it opens with
a relatively straight-forward look about Becky Lynch’s return to WWE at WrestleMania 41 this past April.
While it doesn’t contain as exciting a hook as the Rollins and Truth episodes, Lynch coming back as Lyra Valkyria’s surprise partner for a showdown with Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez for the Women’s Tag titles does contain some news. Namely that The Man plans to call it a career when he current contract expires.
The seven-time WWE Women’s champion also says she was burnt out before taking an almost-year-long break when her contract was nearing expiration in 2024, and explained how that went down:
“I told Hunter [WWE Chief Content Officer Paul ”Triple H” Levesque], ‘Look, my contract’s up, I wanna take some time off,’ and he said ‘Ok. Well, look, we’ll pause it. We’ll give you a little bit of time and then we’ll renegotiate the contract when you’re ready.’ So, that’s what we did.“
Her WWE retirement comes up while Lynch is talking about Roux, the daughter she had with Rollins in 2020. Becky also admits she wasn’t entirely kidding around about the last break being permanent:
“I love working. I love getting out in front of the crowd. I love wrestling, but there’s also that hard part of, ‘Mom’s got to go to work.‘ That guilt is always hard. I had this little kid that I had then been leaving. I felt like when I’d come back, she was angry at me. Like I didn’t — I hadn’t had enough time with her. The time off, it was maybe gonna be forever. I don’t think I knew. I was kind of so content.
“This is probably it, this is the final run. This is the final contract. So I suppose it’s a matter of knowing that, understanding that and enjoying that the best I can.”
We can’t find much on the length of the contract Becky and WWE negotiated for her return last April, but we’d presume it’s at least three years. That means we’ve got some time, but with John Cena and Hiroshi Tanahashi done and a few other big names talking about the end… it’s starting to feel like the end of an era in pro wrestling.
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