WWE News: Becky Lynch - "I wouldn’t be in WWE if it weren’t for Finn Balor "
The 29th edition of WWE Summerslam will be taking place this Sunday from Brooklyn, New York. To promote the event, WWE superstar Becky Lynch recently spoke with SI.com. The highlight of that interview is provided below :
She was asked about the influence of Finn Balor on her wrestling career and Lynch stated :
“I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for Finn. I wouldn’t be here if he didn’t open that little wrestling school in this little school hall at St. Andrew’s down in Bray County Wicklow [Ireland]—which was an hour train ride for me, and then a half hour walk to the school. I remember walking into the school, and I’d just come off watching Tough Enough, so I expected to see this warehouse with a big name outside of it. When I walked in, and there was lovely Finn, with his big smile, ‘How are you lads?’ he asked me and my brother. There were blue padded mats on the floor, a bunch of young teenage rocker kids with hair they were attempting to grow out, and I thought to myself, ‘So this is pro wrestling.’ We learned on these little mats for the first few months until we got a ring.”
Becky mentioned that she wants to be the face of the women’s wrestling division and demanded a separate Women’s Championship for Smackdown :
“We want a women’s champion on Smackdown, I would like to bring that in, but I would like to win the belt that everybody wants [WWE women’s championship]. I want whatever storyline I’m in to be the storyline that people want to watch and care about. I want to make this women’s division worth watching on Smackdown, and make Smackdown the show to watch with enticing stories and entertainment.”
When asked about the latest episode of WWE 24 concentrating on the Divas Revolution, the Irish Lass Kicker said :
“They filmed this around WrestleMania and followed me, Charlotte and Sasha. This was one of the biggest women’s matches in history and we were on the front of AT&T Stadium, and we got a lot of press behind us coming out of the ‘Diva’s Revolution,’ which turned into the ‘Women’s Revolution’ at WrestleMania. For me, it’s never been about a revolution. Talking about a revolution sounds like a whisper, as the old song says. It was just about going out there and doing our thing—having stories where people get emotionally involved. It doesn’t matter if we’re women. It shouldn’t matter; it’s 2016.”
Becky Lynch will be teaming up with Carmella and Naomi to take on the team of Natalya, Alexa Bliss and Eva Marie at SummerSlam 2016.