Becky Lynch Talks Evolution, A Future Match W/ Ronda Rousey, & A Potential Tag Team W/ Stone Cold

Andy Clayton of NY Daily News recently interviewed SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch, who had a lot on her mind, including a potential match with Ronda Rousey, her rival Charlotte Flair, and the upcoming all female Evolution pay-per-view.

On Why It’s The Right Time For An All-Female Pay-Per-View:

Because I think that, one, we’ve never had such a memorable women’s champion as we do on “Smackdown Live” so I think that’s reason part one. But I also think that people have never been as invested in the female characters and we’ve never put on such show-stealing matches as we have been lately. And for the past few years we’ve just been stealing the show time and time again. The fans are ready for it. The fans started all this. They’re the ones that started the hastag ‘Give Divas A Chance’ and it turned into Revolution and here we are with WWE Evolution.

On What It Means To Headline Evolution:

It means the world, because that was my whole goal. That’s what I set out to do. When I left Ireland, I said ‘I want to make sure that the women’s wrestling is the cooling thing on TV’ and that’s what it is right now. When I was first drafted for “Smackdown Live” I said I want to make sure this division is the one people watch and the one people talk about. I wanted to make this (pointing to her championship belt) the most prestigious title in all of WWE. I’m not just talking about the women, I’m talking about all of WWE.

On What Her Journey From NXT To SmackDown Women’s Champion Has Been Like:

It’s been long. It’s been ups, it’s been downs. Maybe more downs than there has been ups. But I wouldn’t give any one of them back to you because it has made this (title belt) all the bit more sweeter.

On Advice For Young Girls:

Oh, anything’s possible. Absolutely anything’s possible. If you believe in it and you blend that with hard work than if I can do that – and I don’t mean that lightly – if I can do that anybody can do that. Because I was not an athlete. I was not charismatic. I was shy growing up. I failed PE. All of those things, but I worked and it’s been a long journey to even believe in myself, but I did and I achieved. If I can do it annnnnybody can do it.

On When She First Became Interested In Professional Wrestling:

I was always a tomboy, right, and I always liked roughhousing. Myself and my brother we always watched wrestling. But I fell out of it for a few years and then when I was around 12 and Mick Foley was huge at the time and my brother would be watching wrestling and I would see Mick on the TV and I would want to hear what he had to say because he was so sympathetic, and he’s got these amazing promos, so I would stay and I would watch and that is what hooked me. And then I saw Lita for the first time and I was like ‘Oh, this girl is so cool. She’s spunky, she’s a tomboy, she’s kind of like me and she was the first woman that I remember identifying with and being ‘I want to be like her.

On The Buzz Heading Into Evolution:

I think everybody is super pumped to see what we bring. I think people are super pumped to see what the champ brings and I think it’s next-level excitement because it is historical.

A Message For Charlotte Flair:

You’ll never beat me. You’ll never beat me in a fair fight. You’ve bested me a time or two, but you’ve always had somebody helping you. You don’t have anybody helping you. There’s gonna be nobody there to save you come Sunday.

How Ronda Rousey Has Helped Grow The WWE:

She’s a huge star. She’s a huge name. She has done so much for women in sports, right? We look at MMA and we look at UFC and women wouldn’t be in the octagon in UFC if it wasn’t for Ronda. She changed the game there and she’s a natural, an absolute natural. She has taken to this like a duck to water. She is doing great things, but I would like her to prove herself by stepping into the ring against me.

On Ronda Rousey Topping Her Opponent Bucket List:

That would be top of my list, yes. Or close to the top. I mean I have a have a long list. I have a long list of opponents that I want to go through. A long list of women who have earned the right to step into the ring with the champ and I would like to defeat all of them.

On Her Dream Tag Team Partner:

Female, let’s go with Lita. Male, let’s go with right now, let’s go with “Stone Cold” Steve Austin because that would be a dream team and a half.

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