Insight with Chris Van Vliet - Becky Lynch On Seth Rollins As A Dad, Her "Shameful" WWE Debut, Becoming The Man

Episode Date: September 28, 2023

Becky Lynch (@beckylynchwwe) is a professional wrestler with WWE. She joins Chris Van Vliet to talk about becoming a Grand Slam Champion when she won the WWE NXT Championship, her thoughts on Tiffany Stratton, how becoming a mother has changed her, what Seth Rollins is like as a dad, the defining moment when she became 'The Man', working with The Rock when he returned to WWE in 2019, her recent steel cage match with Trish Stratus, how Mick Foley inspired her to become a wrestler, her "shameful" WWE debut, her advice for younger talent, the 'Big Time Becks' wardrobe and much more! Sponsors:  BLUECHEW: Use the code CVV to get your first month of BlueChew for FREE at http://bluechew.com  BONCHARGE: Go to http://boncharge.com/CVV and use coupon code CVV to save 15%  MYBOOKIE: Get a 50% welcome bonus when you use the code CVV and sign up at http://mybookie.ag  MUDWTR: To get 15% off go to http://mudwtr.com/cvv and use the code CVV15  MANSCAPED - Get 20% off and free worldwide shipping with the code CVV at manscaped.com   MIRACLE MADE: Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to http://TryMiracle.com/CVV and use the code CVV to claim your FREE 3-PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF Quote I'm thinking about: In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. — Abraham Maslow For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media:  Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All systems are gathered. Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Believe. All right, welcome back to another one on Inside. I'm CBV. Chris Van Fleet, so good to see you here. This episode is brought to you by full-timecreator.com. This is my company, and if you are content creator, looking to take your podcast, YouTube channel,

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This was a Zoom interview. I joined and she was already chatting about being a mother and everything. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, I also have a little one at home, a little girl. And that just started the conversation here. So that's kind of where you see things start here with me going, oh, my gosh, how has this, you know, changed your life? But it's really so interesting when you look at Becky's career. because, I mean, you immediately think about the man, Becky Two Belt, big time Bex,

you know, winning the first ever women's main event at WrestleMania 35, but she didn't exactly have the best debut. In fact, she calls it a shameful debut. Worse than Shockmaster, she says. That might be a bit of a stretch, but I see where she's coming from with that. But it just goes to show how much hard work she has put in to be. where she's at now. I love this conversation. I hope that you do too, and I hope that you share it

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we've got some massive ones on the way. Interviews with Hulk Hogan, Rick Flair, Samantha Irvin, Karen Cross, Natalia, Baron Corbyn, just to name a few. But let's dive into this one right now. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the man. Becky Lynch.

I've wanted to chat with you for so long. I'm glad that this is finally happening here. So thanks for coming on. Oh, me too. My pleasure. How has becoming a mom changed you? Gosh, M makes me worried about everything, but also grateful for everything. You know, like there is just this extra bit of gratitude around everything.

I think when you see how much they progress over, like we went to a Lyme event yesterday. I came home this morning. She was different. She had learned more. She was telling me that a dinosaur was a Demetrodron. I didn't know what a freaking Demetrodon was. And so you realize, like, the time that passes and how you have to be grateful for every moment

to be very present and enjoy all of that. And then that also applies to this, to what we're doing here. You know, because of our schedule, because of how crazy it is, we're on the road, 52 weeks a year. There's no breaks. Nobody's going on vacations. unless you're Roman raised, just kidding. Then you just get into the grind, the grind, the grind, what's next, what's like,

and you never really appreciate what's in front of you and what you have. But when you have a little baby and she's just magic, and every day she's coming out with these magical phrases and she's doing different things and she's learning. It's just, you just realize just how quickly life moves. And you just have to take stock of everything that you have and you have to be very, very grateful for it. Isn't it so funny that I'm a little bit behind you. So my daughter's about to be four months old.

Isn't it funny that right before the baby's born, everyone's like, enjoy this. Like enjoy it because they're never going to be this young again. And you're like, yeah, it's great advice. And it is. But there's not much you can do to like, you know, actually enjoy it because the moment just, you know, passes all the time. Yeah. Yeah.

I think, I think that's one, that's one of those things where people say that to you, right? Like they say, enjoy it. And you're like, okay, is this it? Is this the, am I, am I enjoying it, right? Am I, am I, am I, I enjoy it? I remember that with like, and this is totally different, but when I made in a event, the WrestleMania, and everybody was like, enjoy it, enjoy it, enjoy it, enjoy it, soke it all in. And I remember standing there with the titles going, am I enjoying it right? Is this, am I soaking it in enough? You know? Like, because what does that mean? I think it just means like letting all the chatter dissipate and just appreciating for what it is.

And I think like when you're sleep deprived, the four months and the house is chaos and, you know, you haven't had a hot meal in a long time. As you go, okay, what the hell? But I think it's just like knowing that all of those things are going to fall away and you just get to stare at this cute little baby doing cute little weird things with their hands. The cutest. The cute little weird things they do with their homes, you know. Was there a moment before WrestleMania 35 where, you know, it hit you? Like, oh my gosh, we're going to go out there and we're going to make history.

and at the end of this, I'm going to be the one standing there with my arm raised? Yeah, I think at several times, like several times, I think, like, the week before, I was like, oh, no, oh, oh, gosh. Oh, like the gravity of what we were about to do, like what it meant, what it meant for the business, what it meant, you know, just culturally. the fact that this predominantly male dominated industry was now for the first time being main evented by three women and that I was going to be the one

standing at the end holding two titles like am I ready for this what preparation needs to be done did I do or not you know all of these things go through your head but then I remember when the day came just rocking up to the building like walking past Undertaker going, yeah, this is my WrestleMania.

So I do think I do think I really tried to enjoy it as much as I could on the day. Though, though, though, when it came to like midnight and we were about to go out,

the nerves then, then hit. And now you're the NXT women's champion. Now the NXT women's champion. And I'm curious what it means having that, there and there. I was wondering if we'd see it. There it is.

There it is. I'm curious what it means to have that championship now versus the other times that you've had it. Well, I never had this. You mean just championships in general? Yeah, like, what does this one mean? So, look, like, it is the one that got away. It is the one that I was never pegged for when I was coming up to NXT. and I was very close to being fired constantly, constantly.

And not like one of those things where I was unjustly on the brink of being fired. Like I probably deserved to. Like I sucked. Like it wasn't very good. But because I was so in my head, I had left wrestling for several years. I don't know if anybody knows my story. But when I was a teenager young, started at 15. I left home to move over to Canada.

I was 18. I was like making waves, making waves all over the independent circuit. And then I stopped wrestling at 19. And I got very lost and it got very lost for many years. And I always felt like I had this thing, but I couldn't go back to it. And I didn't know how to get back to it.

And it was scary. Like I didn't know what women's wrestling look like because it didn't look like it does now. And there was nobody to show me that it could look like it does now. And so anyway, when I got to NXT, I was like, oh no, this is it. I've got it.

I've got it. But it was like holding a flowery, you know, like I was like suffocating it because I wanted it so badly. So nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody ever thought I was going to win the NXC women championship. Nobody probably thought I was going to ever win any championships. They thought I was probably just going to be there or be a fine double hand, enthusiastic little hand that it was. And so going back, you know, all these years later,

way feels like vindication. But but the other thing is is that it's more than than that. It's more than the past and the writing the wrongs that I felt done to me in the past, which weren't even wrongs done to me. It was just it was other people's crime. And I'm so very grateful that I, that, that I never, that I was never paid for this. I'm so very grateful that I was never one of the people that they strapped the rocket to and said, this is, this is going to be our girl. I'm very grateful that I had to strive and work and grind and push myself and bring myself out of the dirt because I feel like it's one, it's given me a connection with the audience. Two, it's always left the chip on my shoulder. And three, it brings it all back to what is the love? What is the love of

this? Is the love of this just the gratification that I get? Or is the love the business and how I can make the business better and what do I do every day in the ring? And so with that, bringing it out all the way back, winning this, it's bringing the future with me. You know, it's going down there. It's seeing who they have. Who wants this? Who is honey green? Who wants to main event WrestleMania? Because I can't make history on my own. So let's freaking do this. Let's make it the coolest thing. but you're going to have to bring an edge out of you to do it, right? Because I ain't giving this off easy, you know? I ain't given this off easy.

I want to push people. I want to push them to their limits. I want to see what they're made of and see who's hungry enough. Because the person that's going to take this from me has to be hungry. Tiffany Stratton seems pretty hungry. And I guess we'll find out, you know, it's you guys against each other at No Mercy. I guess we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens.

We'll see what happens. But now, look, Tiffany is one of those people that got a rocket structure, right? She's one of those people, comes in, looks, a million books, can do everything under the sun. She can flip, she can lift, she's strong, she's got a character, we hate her. She's got everything. She's got everything. How much do you love it? What do you have in here?

Because that's what matters. That's what matters. And it's a thing that the audience picks up on. It doesn't matter how good you are. It doesn't matter if you've got all the tools in the box, if you've got all the work. They pick up on something. And that's an energy.

That is a love for this. That is being a student of the game. And so I think Tiffany has everything that it takes to be a super, superster. But it comes down to what's in your heart, you know? And so that's what I want to do. want to push her. I want to see how it's strange she's willing to go. Like how much can she take and keep coming back. Fall is officially here, gentlemen, and it's about to get busy during the holidays. Don't let that stop you from sticking to your habits and being the best version of yourself.

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Use that promo code. CVV at checkout and you get your first month for free. You just have to pay $5 for shipping. That's bluechew.com. The promo code is CVV. Very few superstars get that defining moment. and you had that defining moment when you became the man.

And I think that some other ones that immediately pop into my head are like the Austin 316 promo or Hulk Hogan slamming Andre at WrestleMania 3. At what point did you realize? You know, you're standing in there, the nose is broken, you're posing. At what point do you realize, oh, my gosh, this, this is the moment? Oh, no, I didn't have a clue what was going on, really. I was like, I was so concocted out of my mind. I had no idea where I was.

I walked back through those doors. I said, where are we? How did we get here? I didn't have a clue. Like, I had enough wherewithal to be like, cameras still on me, enjoy this moment. The crowd's going wild. This is cool.

Like, I knew I had blood coming down my face. Just didn't really care. I didn't, like, think of it as like, oh, this is a cool moment. I was just like, oh, yeah, we're doing the thing. The crowd's going wild. This is awesome. You know, this is awesome. And I think it wasn't until the following days.

that people really started to celebrate the look. But really, it's crazy when people think about it as like, that was the defining moment. Because I really kind of think that it was the slap. That was the defining moment for me. That was what brought my character into this metamorphosis. And really, it was the blood on the face. It was like the crescendo.

But up until that point, I was just having a blast. I was having, I was having, I was having the time of my life because it was both like the bad guy, but I was the good guy. So I can do no wrong. And that is the most beautiful place to be in this business, you know, where you can just do no wrong. So you're just having a blast.

And after that, then I was a, I was a baby face and ended up hobbling my way to WrestleMania. And kind of, as, as great as that ultimate moment was, there was, there was, there was, there was, there was more struggles on the back end of that nose being broken than there were before it, if that makes it. A man, though, is a great nickname. Like, and you took it and you ran with it and, you know, made a great shirt that everybody bought. Like, I don't know if you realized you had lightning in a bottle, you know, when you created the man.

I think I did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You could feel it. Like, you could sense that, that upswell around it. Like, okay, this is, this is, this is cool. this is this is a movement almost you know people are getting behind this and so it's very cool very cool part of you know what people got behind this steel cage match with you and trish stratus like this was something really special at payback yeah we cursed it we cursed it we cursed that yep yep yep

stole the damn show started off it was all down here from there no it wasn't it was actually a great great show and but but yeah no we started off We started off hot, I think, like a few chips on our shoulder. The story had been going on for a long time, maybe not getting steam that necessarily we wanted. And being left off SummerSlam, obviously I understand why these decisions are made, but really wanted to go out there and prove it. And getting that time, getting that steel cage match was the perfect way to finish it,

you know, much of our life. I mean, it seriously might be. Yeah, so, I mean, look, when you have a legend like Trish Addis coming back, like you want to remind the people of why this person is so great. And I think there's no doubt after that match of the greatness. It's so interesting when you go back and you watch your WWE debut to like the contrast between who that person was and who this person is that is sitting across from you right now. Are we talking about the Irish jig?

We're talking about the Irish jig. We are in the very, very green attire that you had. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There we are. Look, if that is not proof that you can dig yourself out of any hole, then I don't know what is because that is, I would put that over shockmaster in terms of shameful they'd be.

use. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Like he just fell over, you know, like he fell over. Okay, fine. That's, that's, that, that sucks. I went there. I was committed to that, you know? Like, that was my, like, I think the difference is he didn't intend to fall over. I intend to go out there and do an Irish gig like that and thought that I was, I was worthy of being on WWW. TV television. That happened. That happened. But here's the thing. How do you get out of that? Because there are a lot of superstars that, like, they debut as one character, and then they're stuck as that, and they can't make it work. I think there's always, there's always a catalyst for change, right? You just got to figure out, you just got to figure out what it is. Winning a match can be catalyst for change. Losing a match can be catalyst for change. You just sometimes need the right story, the right antagonist or protagonist. depending on what way you're going to go.

But I think that's the fun thing about wrestling, man. We can do anything. We can do anything. You can go from being a stupid, silly Irish dancing clown to be in the man of the business and main eventing WrestleMania holding two titles over your head, you know? And that's the thing. And I suppose in a way that's the thing about life, right?

Like you don't have to be stuck as the person that you were or with the thing that you did, you can move on and you can learn from your mistakes and hope you never go back there. And I hope I never go back in that green attire doing any other senses. That championship that you have there, I feel like that was kind of the last thing

that you had on like the bucket list to cross off. Now you've won it. What could you possibly have that you need to accomplish now in your career? Gosh, that's kind of one of those questions that I do get asked fairly regularly. and it's at a nice point where you can say, yeah, I want to make about wrestling again, I want to do this again, I want to do that again, I want to do this, I would like to win an elimination chamber, you know, like, I want to win money in the back. But really, it comes down to cementing the legacy and how do I make every match that I have great? How do I, how do I elevate the women in NFT? How do I push the business forward? How do I lead,

it better than I found it. And I already feel like I've left it better than I found it. But I want to continue that. I want to keep pushing that. I want to make myself proud and my daughter proud, my family proud, and the audience proud. I want them to enjoy watching me. I want them to go, what's next and be invested in the matches that I'm having and the people that I'm wrestling. And so I suppose that's it. It comes down to consistency. and the love of the business. I just love this. I just love this.

I love going out there. I love coming out there in front of the crowd. And giving them all that I have, put my body on the line, put my mind on the line, putting, taking risks. I think it's more right now. It's more of just the love of the game

than what else do you have to accomplish. I love that. I've been lucky enough to accomplish many things. And there's probably many more things that I will accomplish. but I just love this. How do I make this better? Yeah, I love that. And you mention your daughter. And when you're her mom, when Seth Rollins is her dad, I mean, what kind of a superstar do we have on the way here in like 18, 20 years?

Oh, man, she has so much more charisma than both of us combined. She has electric. She is magical, magnetic. She is amazing. She's just, she's, I'm so proud of her. I'm so proud of her. She's just such a great little girl. She's so funny and she's so smart and she's so sweet and she's so decisive. Yeah, she's brilliant. And if she wants to do this, then, well, we'll train her up well and we'll make sure that she's the best in the world with this. But I don't know.

Currently, she doesn't really like watching. Yeah, it's too loud, too loud, too loud. What is she watching instead? Like blipy or something? Yeah, blipy, Miss Rachel. Anything dinosaurs. We watch a lot of Miss Rachel in this house. He's great.

I love Miss Rachel. I invited her to a Madison Square Garden Shell once on. She didn't come. Rachel, if you watch them at that invite is open, any time, anytime you want, anytime you want. You don't even have to come in full costume. No, she's great. I love her.

I love her. She taught, she taught Rue so much, so much. I don't think people can picture Seth Rollins being a father. Oh, he's so, he's the best. He is so good. He's so patient and so kind. Like, he never loses his temper. She respects it.

She respects him a bit more than she respects me, you know? Like, I tried to lay down the law, but I'm a softy, you know? But, like, he's so good. He is so good. They're the best of buds. So we saw The Rock come back on Smackdown not long ago. And when you think about it, the last time the Rock was in a WWE ring,

four years ago, was with you and Baron Corbyn. And take us backstage before you guys went out for that segment, walk us through how everything went with Iraq. I mean, look, when you're working with Dwayne, it's, well, one, it's so easy because anything you do gets a reaction and he's so good,

and he's so good. in tune with the energy of everyone, the entire universe. I think you can see that by how he's just, you know, taken over the world. But he also makes everybody feel so comfortable and he wants everything to be the best. And he takes care of everybody that's around him. But also then you're just so wracked with nerves because you're going toe to toe with the great one. who is the great one who's got, you know, more charisma and is pinky than, I mean, him and Rue could compete maybe, you know. But it is like a bit of a nerve-wracking experience because you want to hold your own and you have to hold your own.

Because he's giving you, he's giving you the torch. He's saying, here you go. Let me give you the rug, kid. And no, he really looked after all of us. getting to work with him and being out there and feeling the energy of the crowd. And then you go, that's what I want. That's what I want. I want people to react to me, that one.

And that's a very cool thing because you get to experience and you go, okay, I knew I was hot. This is a different level of hot. How do I get this level of hot? Yeah, there's an interesting thing when the rock comes out. Like there's a pop for his music. And then there's a bigger pop when he actually walks out. People are like, oh, my God, he is here. Yeah, yep, yep.

And to be able to experience that while you're in the ring, about to work with him, a wild energy. And I'm very privileged I got to do it. You've gotten to this interesting point of your career where you're now working with people who I'm sure are saying, you're the reason I'm doing this, or I grew up watching you. What's the advice that you have when you work with some younger, talent.

I suppose there's many different advice. It depends on what the question is. But I think it's to kind of bring it down to fundamentals and always think about the long game and the purpose and the crowd and what it is that we do. What it is that we do? What are we selling? We're always selling stories. We're selling conflict.

how do I make them care? How do I make them care about me beyond the superficial things? How do I get them to care about the person that I am? And then, of course, there is the thing of TV time. And, okay, I'm not getting as much TV time as I wanted, or I'm not winning as many matches as I wanted. How can I make this work for me? Well, the thing is you can always make it work for you,

no matter what it is, whether you're getting time or you're not getting time. And it's harder when you're not getting time, but there are things that you can do. And I was always told by William Regal that when you're not on the show, you go and you find the digital team and you tell a story or you do something.

And that was what I did in my early career that really endeared me to the audience. I think that was always my secret ingredient, whether I was doing silly Instagram posts, or I was finding backstage interviewers so that I could cut a promo that I wasn't getting time to cut on TV. So then there is some contingent of the audience

that watches this that knows who I am, that is hearing my voice, that is hearing my message. And then they will get behind you. And I think that is kind of one of those secret ingredients that you could sit around and be annoyed, or you could take matters into your own hands and tell a story. I think my dad used to talk.

always just tell tell me that when I was bored, you know. Just tell yourself a story. And I think William Regal was kind of telling me the same thing. It's always been the same thing. Tell yourself a story, but now it's not yourself, tell the audience story. Who was it for you? Who was it for you? Who got you into pro wrestling when you were? Big Foley. Nick Foley. Tell me a story, man. His promos. Yeah. So, like, I remember being a fan when I was a kid, you know, a Hulkomania, I told him what warrior, all that kind of jazz dressing up in my mom's clothes and wrestling with my brother on her bed. But I fell out of watching it, I think mostly because my brother fell out of watching.

And then he started watching again in the attitude era. And I'd come along when he was watching it and I was one of those. I was the worst. I was the worst. I was like, oh, no, you know, that's all fake. That's for babies. And I was like, no, no, it's gotten really good. It's actually really good now.

And I'd be like, yeah, sure, whatever. Then Nick would come on. And I'd be like, the way he talked, you know, and the stories he tell and this underdog that he was and this unlikely superstar that he was. And I was a bit of a misfit as a kid, not a bit of a misfit. I was very much a misfit. And I could see myself in him. Like there was just that that relationship, that rapport of like, no, you're not the picture perfect superstar. And so he became my hero.

You know, I really wanted him to win. And then he had that match with Triple H where he was going to retire if he lost. And I remember staying up late, watching it, and him loo and me just being in floods of tears. And, of course, he came back like four weeks later, whatever. But that was really what hooked me. And then I was there to stay, you know. And then I saw Lita and she was so. cool and I wanted to be like her and and and then everybody else. I mean, it was just such such a hot

time in the business, but it fell in love with it. Do you have a favorite McFoly match? Gosh, I do well. Probably, I mean, maybe maybe it's it's triple H and McFolly and the Hell and the South just for that nostalgic reason, you know? Yeah, it was so good. I think everyone points to like the Undertaker McFoehl? Yeah. I mean, that that was his defining moment for sure. He's He's a defining moment, but I think for me as a fan, to get to the point where I was crying over, over, over this man losing, was a defining moment in my final. The match he had with Randy Orden, where Randy Orden, where we kind of went,

oh, Randy Orden will do this stuff? That's crazy. Oh, Randy. What a legend. What a legend man is. I mean, you're working with a lot of legends, right? right now. I am. I am. We're in a great time in the business. Very great, very great time at the business. Everybody's hitting. Everybody's taken off. The fans are excited. The buildings are sold out.

There's an energy around the place. It's a very, it's a very true thing to be a part of. It's, I feel like the way that our generation talks about the attitude era. I feel like there's going to be another generation that talks about exactly what is happening right now. I'm right. They will. then might they will and talk about the greatest NXT Women's champion

you can keep it on your shoulder the whole time I don't know why you wouldn't there we go what's it like going through TSA with that

well do you know what actually it's more more than that I have this little cut on my side and it keeps sticking into it and what's going through TSA with this yeah they stock you all the time

take it out of your bag and I'm always late for flights So I'm like, oh, God, stop. Yeah. And they're like, what are you the champion of? And you're like, it says right here what I'm the champion of. Oh, they're not going. Yeah.

I'm a man, darn it. Big time backs, right? Big time backs. That might be one of the best catchphrases or nicknames. I. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Here's big time backs.

She's here. Ladies and gentlemen. Big time Bex is here. Come around to the podcast. All right. Here we are. Oh, my. Here we are.

Big time Bex is in the balance. I love being big time, man. I had so much fun with that run. You want to bring it back. Your wardrobe, and I mean this with great love and great respect. Your wardrobe is atrociously over the top. I love it, man. I love it.

I will say, it's kind of my real life work. You know what I mean? Like there is, there is, I love a bit of peacocking, you know. I love a bit of peacock and walking down the streets of Los Angeles. I don't know who has a better wardrobe. Is it you or is it Seth? That's, yeah, it's, I can't argue with that. I can't argue with that.

Like, I have a, you know, I want to recycle all of his clothes. I just want to have them all tailored fit me. I think that's a great idea. Yeah, like then, yeah, then they get to be. worn again, we all get to relive these amazing looks that he's been trimming. He came in dressed like a fire hydrant just a second ago to deliver his coffee. But, yeah. When you look back at everything you've done, oh, big time Beck's left us now.

When you look back at everything you've done, the matches and the championships and everything, what in your career are you most proud of? I don't know that there's any one thing that I'm most proud of. I think I'm most proud of many things. I think what I'm most proud of right now is being able to balance everything, being able to balance being a very present mother and wife and being on every single show that we have.

I was at Smackdown Dark Match on Friday. I was on the live events. You know, I'm on NXT, I'm on raw. I think I'll just be most proud of of elevating where the women were and to where they are now. And just that I've never once found it in. Like, I think you can accuse me of several things. Nobody will ever be able to accuse me or phoning it in of not trying my hardest,

not doing my best. Oftentimes I won't hit the mark. I won't get to where I want to be, but I'm always trying to do my best. I'm always trying to bring the best out of everybody that is in the ring with me. I'm trying to do the best by the audience. And as long as I continue to do that, which there ain't no sign of that stopping, I think I'm going to leave behind a career that I am extremely proud of. So the last question I want to ask you, I end every interview with this.

And you've mentioned it a few times. Gratitude is such an important thing. What are three things in your life that you're grateful for as we sit here? right now. Oh my gosh. I mean, my daughter, my husband, my job, they're the first three that come to mind. There's just so many things that I'm grateful for and I'm very lucky to be so grateful for. But really, my family is number one. It is my whole world. I am so grateful. I always wanted to be a mother getting to do it as far exceeded my expectations. the greatest thing in the world.

Just what a gift, what a gift. And to be able to do that and still do what I do at such a high level. I'm very good. Very, very, very long. You're a legend. Becky, so good to be able to spend some time with you. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me on. It was a pleasure.

My pleasure. Well, there we go. The man herself, I love that she was saying grateful and gratitude all throughout the episode. I'm like, oh my gosh, that leads me to my favorite. question. I end every interview with this one. It was like just so perfect how that all came together. And I just love how much self-awareness she has. Like so aware that like, yeah, the debut sucked. I was not set up to succeed. Oh my gosh. Look how things are going now. It's amazing. And she's not even close to being done. And by the way, if their daughter, Rue, ever does decide that she wants to be a wrestler,

What a legacy, right? When your dad is Seth Rollins, your mom is Becky Lynch? Yeah, I think she'd be pretty good if that's what she decides to do. Please snap a screenshot. Share this with a friend. I know you've got a Becky Lynch friend of yours that you're like, oh my gosh. My friend would love to hear this episode. We'll send it over to them.

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