Becky Lynch has reacted to Ronda Rousey’s comments about WWE and her overall ability as a wrestler.
With her autobiography due to be released soon, Ronda Rousey has hit the headlines by the contents of her book and comments made in media interviews as it pertains to her time in WWE. Criticising creative and higher-ups in the company, Rousey has made it clear that her time in WWE was less than a dream come true. During her first run, Rousey and Lynch crossed paths on a number of occasions, including the main event of WrestleMania 35.
Lynch appeared on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani and was asked about Rousey’s comments. Lynch began by reacting to Rousey’s previous comments:
“No, I’m not surprised [by Ronda’s negativity]… Look, I have a very different view and a very different experience of WWE, but I always wanted to do this. This is what I always wanted to do. I love this. Is it perfect? No. Nothing is. I’ve worked in little delis that you’re like, ‘How does this place operate?’ The size of WWE and the amount of talent and people that go into making it go live on TV for five hours a week when you’re just talking about Raw and SmackDown. Then you’ve got pay-per-views. Then you’ve got NXT. There’s so many people that go behind that, so you’re going to be dealing with a lot of people. So you’re going to have some negative experiences, but this is my dream. I’ve always wanted it to be good. I’ve always looked at myself, how can I be better? How can I make the division better? I’ve always worked to make it better,”
Lynch continued, admitting that WWE is not perfect and storylines have been questionable but she is aware that it is not personal and always executed the plan to the best of her ability:
“Stuff like the creative, no, it’s not always great. There’s been a history of it not making sense to me but nobody’s purposely going, ‘How do we make Becky Lynch look awful?’ They have so much going on. There’s so much going on. The fact that we pull everything off the way that we do and even at a time when, notoriously, the shows were getting Rewritten as we were going live on TV and we still got them done. We still went out there, we still hit our times, and we still made the show work. No, it was not always great, but a lot of it was, ‘We’re all doing the best we can.’ Nobody wants to go out there and do bad work, or make anybody look bad. I don’t think anybody is like, ‘How do I make this person look bad?’ Unless they’re supposed to be a heel and in terms of, you’re only trying to make them look bad, but they’re all like, if we do good, the company does good. So I don’t think anybody is trying to make anybody fail. I suppose that’s my point. Nobody’s trying to make anybody fail and I think when you love this, you look to try and make it better.”
Concluding her thoughts about Rousey, Lynch stated that although Rousey was a star in the MMA world and had a great first match at WrestleMania 34, she was not a wrestler and was treated like she had more experience:
“She was coming from a different industry. She was a star and she should have been handled differently in terms of, I think she had a great first outing that everybody thought, ‘Oh, she can wrestle.’ I mean this with respect, but she couldn’t wrestle. What do we do isn’t something that you can just have one good match and then, ‘Okay, yeah. I’m off to the races.’ It’s a craft and you have to learn your craft. You have to be diligent about learning your craft, but everybody treated Ronda like she already knew it because when she first came in, she was good in that first bout, but she was also working with Kurt Angle, she was working with Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, it was a well-rehearsed match because everybody wanted her to succeed.
“Then, it was like, ‘Okay, she can do this. Off to the races.’ That was mishandling her because she was a star in her own right and she had done so much for MMA and, in terms of that and booking, that wasn’t done well, but my experience coming from nobody thinking that I was going to be worth anything and making myself very valuable with the company and very valuable to wrestling in general, because I loved it and I sought out to do it. She came in and I think she found a place that she enjoyed, that she liked, but she never sought out to do it from a young age. I think that changes the experience that you have when you go into a place.”
Becky Lynch Admits Her Contract Is Coming To An End
Like many top Superstars who signed new deals in 2019, Lynch is approaching the end of her current WWE contract and has not signed a new deal at the time of writing. The topic also came up in the interview, where Becky Lynch confirmed her contract expiration date and what’s next.
H/t to Fightful.
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