4 reasons why Becky Lynch isn't the new Stone Cold Steve Austin
Becky Lynch has created waves across the WWE Universe over the past few months with her new 'attitude'. Her winning the Royal Rumble truly sent fans into ecstasy and she deserves her spotlight.
But is she really the next Stone Cold Steve Austin?
Becky was always a popular superstar, and when her attitude change resulted in a SmackDown Women's title run, fans ate her up.
However, with each passing week, Becky's momentum seems to be stalling a bit. While there are quite a few similarities to Stone Cold's and Becky's personas, on closer inspection, the differences stand out quite intensely.
This list takes a look at four reasons why Becky is not the new Stone Cold.
#1 She comes across as a brat rather than a badass
When Becky Lynch came out to replace Lana in this year's Royal Rumble and eventually eliminated Charlotte in spite of a bad leg to book a WrestleMania ticket, that moment became the signature of the PPV. She did seem heroic to fight through the pain to punch her way to WrestleMania, but the badass gimmick is slowly losing steam.
She has been on crutches since then on TV, trying to beef up the injury angle - but the longer that goes on, it just convinces people that it is a work. The way Lynch attacked Ronda Rousey last week with full utilization of her bad leg didn't really sell her injury all that well.
Becky has really embraced her character and is really into social media to promote herself in this new age. But many of her Twitter interactions come across as downright disrespectful.
Engaging in a war of words with Chris Jericho - one of the most respected wrestlers of all time - did not really hold her in good light. The banter was for no apparent reason and Lynch just came across as someone making noise just to sound cool.
She also had segments on RAW recently where she threatened former World Champion Edge and disrespected John Cena. Challenging an 11-time World Champion who can no longer wrestle because of health reasons did not come across as a badass move, but more like that of a high school bully.
As for the Cena situation, while it is supposed to earn an up with the so-called 'smart fans', Cena hadn't been seen in the WWE for a long time that people have actually started to miss him and so getting one over on Cena wasn't the most popular move.
To cap it all of, Lynch seemed to go over the line last week with a series of tweets against Ronda Rousey which even involved pot shots against Rousey's husband. It seemed to legit upset Rousey, who shot back -
"Rebecca Quin (Lynch's real name), I don't care what the script says, I'm beating the living s— out of you the next time I see you"
Even if all this had been a work, Rousey came across as a wronged wife looking for revenge and Becky as a brat who deserved a trip to the woodshed - which she duly received after Rousey beat her up on this week's RAW.