Fresh off her recent Smackdown Women’s Championship win, Becky Lynch appeared as a guest on Chasing Glory With Lilian Garcia to discuss her heel turn. Lynch discussed how the audience hasn’t taken to the turn as it was originally conceived. Garcia said that heel turns typically involve putting down the crowd, and insulting them.
“Well, we tried that,” Lynch said, “And the crowd were like, ‘c’mon now, Becky, you know that we were there with you the whole time.’ And I’m like, yeah, I know, I’m going through some stuff. I’m trying to figure it out, lads.”
“It just doesn’t make sense that I would talk about how bad and how wrong they are, because they’ve obviously made their voices heard and supported me the whole time.”
Lilian asked about the origin of the decision to turn her heel. “That was Creative. And I can’t say I’m mad at them,” Lynch said. “Vince wanted a different side of me.”
She also revealed that she has some input into her promos. “Everything’s said in my own words… The main thing is to make sure that Becky Lynch is real.”
Lynch also discussed her first title run, and how she didn’t feel worthy of holding the belt. Some of that had to do with her own insecurity, she said. But she also mentioned that some of that came from her positioning as a champion who wasn’t even the captain of her Survivor Series team in 2016.
Lynch also said that she entered the company with a desire to be a blank canvas, but that she took that too far. “I got so in my head that I couldn’t even do a schoolboy.”
“I don’t think I’d be here if it wasn’t for Dusty Rhodes,” she continued. She mentioned that Rhodes liked working with unpolished wrestlers, and enjoyed the process of helping to mold people with a bit of brokenness. “And I think, at the time, that I was particularly broken.”
Other show topics included Lynch working with Shawn Michaels on The Marine 6, a bad breakup, and Lynch’s desire to keep her personal and professional lives separate.
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