Becky Lynch Talks Going From Lowest Point In Her Career To WrestleMania Dream

Becky Lynch recently spoke with Pro Wrestling Illustrated Senior Writer Dan Murphy for an interview where she discussed her pre-successful reign as “The Man” in WWE.

Lynch talked at length about what she referred to as one of the lowest points in her life after suffering a head injury in 2006. She would only wrestle three times over the next six years before ultimately signing a developmental deal with WWE.

“It felt like death to me,” said Lynch, real name Rebecca Quin, who was working as Rebecca Knox at the time. “I was Rebecca [Knox], the wrestler. And then I wasn’t the wrestler, so who the hell was Rebecca? It was my whole goal that I wanted to change the landscape of women, to just go out there and just wrestle and make people care. Then, all of a sudden, I was just lost with no goals, no ambition. I felt like I let everybody down. And I was so ashamed. I just remember pure shame, of not being able to know what I was going to do with myself, not being able to own up to the fact that I wasn’t doing it, or that I was confused about it.”

Lynch added, “I just thought that the door closed for me for life. This fear of success, but fear of failure. Fear of … I don’t know … of the future, really. And I went into a depression. But I would always write in my journal that I felt like I had unfinished business. That I should be in WWE, but I didn’t know how to get back there. I felt like I burned these bridges, but this is what I’m meant to do and how am I going to do it? It was a horrible, harrowing feeling, to not know how to get back there. Luckily, some twist of fate or divine intervention – I don’t know what you want to call it – just brought me back to what I feel is my calling, my destiny, if you believe in those kinds of things. And here we are.”

Currently, Lynch is one victory at WWE Fastlane away from being added to the RAW Women’s Championship match with Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 36.

“It was my goal to main-event WrestleMania,” said the Lass Kicker. “That’s what I set out to do, that’s what I said I was going to do when I moved over here and got signed to NXT. I said I was going to main-event WrestleMania. I didn’t know I was going to be the first woman to do it, but it was my intention. And I feel like, of course, the two chosen ones were going to be chosen to be put in the main event of WrestleMania. But I’ve been the one that’s made it interesting.”

Check out the complete Becky Lynch interview at PWI-Online.com.

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