Becky Lynch says time might be the key factor in getting her long-awaited match with Ronda Rousey.
In an interview with Ariel Helwani of BT Sport leading up to WrestleMania 38, Becky Lynch spoke about Ronda Rousey’s return to WWE and if she was hoping to face Rousey at this year’s WrestleMania. Lynch defended her RAW Women’s Championship against Bianca Belair while Rousey challenged Charlotte Flair for the SmackDown title on Saturday, but she explained why she’s not exactly upset about leaving a match with Rousey for future plans.
“No. Because I think that’s the biggest match that people thought could happen. And so I think the thinking is not to give away the biggest match possible right out the gate. And also let her get her feet wet. Let her get used to this life again, let her get used to doing this, which she hasn’t had a whole bunch of experience with before in the first place. And then you add a baby into that mix. Look nobody knows as much as I do how hard that is. But I’ve also been doing this a lot longer and I grew up doing this and I love this in a different way. And so it’s hard, it’s very hard, but I make it look easy.”
Lynch then spoke about how Rousey is doing since she came back. Lynch was confident in her answer, feeling like Rousey isn’t doing as well as she could be — or as well as she’s been since returning from maternity leave.
“Not as good as me, in terms of juggling it all. Look, if anybody who’s able to go out there in front of people and you’re able to perform in front of people and you have a baby that’s possibly not sleeping, and you’re traveling, getting out in front of the curtain, that’s juggling it all. Putting one foot in front of the other, that’s juggling it all. Are you excelling at it? That’s a different story. I’m excelling at it. I wouldn’t say [she’s] excelling at it. I don’t think she’s returned to that level. I think she may have needed a bit more time. Which again, if you have a child, you’re coming back after four months, that is an incredible task, an incredible feat. But sometimes you need a bit more time, especially if you haven’t been doing this for years upon years upon years.
“I don’t know what her headspace is, but I imagine that she’s not watching absolutely everything that is wrestling related on TV, that she’s not marinating about it every second of every day when she’s not with her baby. That she’s not talking to her husband nearly every conversation about how do we make this industry better, how do we make ourselves better, how would this match be better? If you’re not completely immersed in it…I’m just saying, possibly a little bit more time would have been helpful for her.
“I think she loved it as a fan, and I do think she loved it as a fan. And I’ve said this to Bianca, and so I’ll say it to Ronda, you can a fan or you can be the man, and you wanna be the man, especially if you’re in this business. So when she came in originally, maybe there was a more of a love for it, because she came from that fan eyes. And now maybe there’s a little bit of contempt. And maybe her priorities have shifted to where she knows her baby’s more important, her baby’s always gonna be more important, of course it is. But maybe when she has that, that love is transferred there as opposed to marrying the two loves.”
Ronda Rousey was unsuccessful in her bid to win the SmackDown Women’s Championship, but Becky Lynch also lost her title at WrestleMania 38. Check out full results from night one of the event at this link. Lynch also spoke with WrestleZone’s Dominic DeAngelo before her match about “making a statement” at WrestleMania; check out our full interview with Lynch here.
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