As reported earlier in the week by AllWrestling.com, SmackDown Women’s Champ Becky Lynch made a guest appearance on the MMA Show with Ariel Helwani. Among the most interesting takeaways from the appearance was Lynch commenting on what she experienced after Nia Jax punched her. Here is what Lynch had to say (h/t WrestlingInc transcriptions):
“I got a severe concussion and I broke my nose, so I was in [the] hospital that night after the event, so I completely blacked out after I got hit, right? But I rolled to the ropes and got back up again. I guess my autopilot kicked in and I smashed half of RAW including Runny Ronnie.” Lynch added, “so it turns out that my autopilot is a badass too.”
Lynch expounded upon what happened to her during that RAW invasion angle and said that facing Ronda Rousey in the main event of WrestleMania is still her main goal. Here is more from The Man:
“Completely out of it, I was completely out on my feet,” Lynch recalled. “Well, hopefully, it will lead to bigger and better things. I think now the fight that people want to see is me versus Ronnie. They do want to see it on a bigger stage and I think WrestleMania is a pretty damn big stage. That’s my goal. That’s all I can think about. That’s all I want. I’m living it right now. That’s what I wake up thinking about. That’s what I go to bed thinking about. If I had a vision board, that would be on my vision board. But I think the possibility is right there, right? And for no other reason than it is the fight that people most care about seeing, right? So it doesn’t matter what the gender is or if it’s for [WWE] Evolution and it’s the one that people care about the most, and so it should be the main event.”
The Lasskicker also discussed the origin of “The Man” nickname and how it came about:
“‘The Man’, so I throw a lot of stuff around. I have a friend back home and we throw a lot of stuff around and we often talk about mindset, right? And about confidence and about being ‘The Man’. So my friend, Paul O’Brien, and I, we would always talk back and forth. He would say, ‘The Man’, and I would say, ‘I am ‘The Man,” so I started to believe that I am ‘The Man’ and so I started to throw that out there.” Lynch boasted, “now everybody knows I’m ‘The Man’.”
Helwani also asked Lynch about RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey’s assertion that using “The Man” moniker is counterproductive to the advancement of female athletes during WWE’s current “women’s evolution” era. Here is what Lynch had to say:
“That’s such a small-minded thing because I’m not talking about gender.” Rousey explained, “I’m not saying, ‘I am a man.’ I am saying, ‘I am ‘The Man”. ‘The Man’ has been used as a moniker meaning the top dog in our business. And if [Rousey] knew anything about our business, she might know that, right? So it’s what Ric Flair called himself. ‘To be ‘The Man’, you have to beat ‘The Man’. There is nobody else who is on top of the totem pole like I am right now. So therefore, I am ‘The Man’ and being ‘The Man’ is all about believing in yourself. It’s about believing in yourself more than other people believe in you.”
You can watch the Lynch interview on Helwani’s MMA Show in the video below:
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Becky Lynch to @arielhelwani:
“What I always wanted was to make sure women’s wrestling was the coolest thing on TV and that people cared about it. When you have a star like Ronda Rousey coming in then it brings eyes and it brings attention.”https://t.co/oh11yz7lR6
— Chamatkar Sandhu (@SandhuMMA) December 10, 2018
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