Trivia / Becky Lynch

• Career Resurrection: She was held up as a prodigy early in her career, quickly taking the indies by storm. She decided to retire from wrestling after suffering a nasty injury, and only appeared periodically from then onward as a manager. In 2012, she began training for a comeback, and this led to her being signed to WWE very quickly. Within two years, she was already on the main roster, and has since risen to one of the company's top stars.
• Corpsing:
  • When The Miz compares the break-up of PCB to that of One Direction, Becky can be seen smiling and chuckling to herself.
  • She tried valiantly to keep it together during a post-Mixed Match Challenge interview with Sami Zayn throughout a hilarious diatribe about how the WWE Universe wasn't snapping enough to support their team. He goes on to blame the birthday cake — "local Philly bakery, too heavy" — for their loss, and Becky just loses it. She does turn it into fake crying, to her credit, but it's a pretty funny corpse.
  • During a React "Try To Watch This Without Laughing Or Grinning" episode featuring her, Alexa Bliss, Alicia Fox, and Mickie James, Becky was the only one who went in while in her on-screen character. She's one of the three (the other two being Bliss and Fox) to fail on the very first challenge and was the second one (after Bliss) to do so. She placed 2nd overall (Mickie won).
• Creator Backlash:
  • If she talks about her Oireland gimmick at all, it's always in a light of humiliation. In 2022, she even described it as "possibly the most shameful debut" in the history of NXT and WWE as a whole.
    "We should never talk about that...again. [...] The champ would like to forget that moment."
  • As outlined here, she really didn't like the 2015 "Divas Revolution" angle that was little more than a random series of interchangeable tag team matches with negligible stakes at best prefaced by a big-deal political speech.
  • She initially hated playing a face, finding herself a more natural heel, but as she played one more often, she warmed to it and embraced it.
  • Both her and Seth Rollins expressed discomfort at WWE's decision to integrate their real-life relationship into their storylines in 2019. After some time of WWE's social media very enthusiastically pushing the couple, she replied to such a message on their Twitter with a simple but effective "Please stop lads." She would also go on record speaking at length about her feelings in an interview around a month later:
    "Honestly, I was very apprehensive. What I didn’t want was everybody talking about the relationship. What I wanted was two badasses, two people at the top of their game fighting side-by-side. Not for the world to be reminded every five minutes that this is Becky Lynch's boyfriend or that's Seth Rollins' girlfriend. Which, of course, they didn’t do. They were the masters of subtlety..."
  • She's gone on to regret Tweets she wrote around her rising 2018-2019 era that she's since felt may have gone too far. Specifically the tweets she made mocking Charlotte Flair's cosmetic surgery she felt really soured the relationship between the two.
• Dye Hard: She's a natural blonde, but has dyed her hair brown, red, and even bright orange over the course of her career. Ironically, after her 2018 heel turn, she attributed her lack of titles in WWE in one interview to not being "blonde enough".
• Dyeing for Your Art: As noted above, she's naturally blonde. She dyed her hair red shortly after being signed to WWE
• Fan Community Nickname: The Deadlies.
• Funny Character, Boring Actor: She started off as an inversion, as NXT seemed determined to push her as a "serious" wrestler, and she played the Only Sane Woman in contrast to the other more exaggerated characters. In real life, she's a total goofball and Pungeon Master. As of her re-debut on the main roster, her on-screen character became like this, too.
• Playing Against Type: Becky got most of her indie fame from playing a heel, most notably in SHIMMER, and her gimmick was in her words "a jigging Irish leprechaun." Any attempts at getting her to be a heel on live events and briefly on NXT have flopped with fans — not to mention the backlash from her doing the Oireland gimmick in her debut. She's found far more success being pushed as a Face, to the point where she was the first draft pick for SmackDown and quickly became the top female face there. Even when she turned heel in 2018, she still got top babyface reactions.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: Her and Seth have received many; the few officially acknowledged titles include "Brollins" and "Secky".
• Real Life Writes the Plot:
  • Part of the reason for her Face–Heel Turn in late 2018 was to coincide with the release of The Marine 6, where she plays the Big Bad.
  • Becky relinquished her Raw Women's Championship to Asuka due to her real-life pregnancy.
• Real Song Theme Tune: On the indies, it was "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer.
• Reality Subtext:
  • Becky's close friendship with Charlotte in 2015 as of their call-up in PCB parallels how the two drifted together when Becky first started at NXT.
  • It didn't take long before her real-life romantic relationship with Seth Rollins was adopted into their in-ring storylines.
• Romance on the Set: In May 2019, she casually dropped on Twitter that she was dating Seth Rollins (it had been a bit of an Open Secret for a while before then). They got engaged in August of that year.
• She Also Did:
  • Becky was a shield maiden on the TV show Vikings during her seven-year hiatus from wrestling. (It was filmed in Ireland, just a stone's throw from Belfast.) She lied and put "stunt work experience" in her résumé, and it was assumed that because she had wrestling in her background, she had done stunt work before to get the job. Edge was on the show as well, albeit in a much bigger part.
  • She also filled the time of her hiatus going to clown school (yes, really), working as a flight attendant, getting a degree in acting, and dabbling in bodybuilding for a while. This was even lampshaded during one promo with Ronda Rousey, in which Rousey gloated about how, while Lynch pursued these odd jobs, Rousey was already an accomplished athlete.
• Throw It In!: Possibly the most iconic moment of Becky's career came on the November 12, 2018 episode of Raw when, at the climax of a massive cross-brand brawl where she destroyed Ronda Rousey with a chair, she got bloodily busted open by a hard shot to the face from Nia Jax. She shrugged off the injury to finish the segment, defiantly standing on the arena steps taunting Ronda with blood all over her face and arms. This was completely unscripted — Jax's punch was a careless mistake and the injury was entirely real, giving Becky a broken nose and a legitimate concussion which forced her to miss the scheduled match against Ronda at Survivor Series. WWE played the hand they were dealt and extended the feud for another half-year, pushing the eventual showdown into the main event of WrestleMania instead.
• What Could Have Been:
  • She was signed to debut on SHIMMER's second taping but delayed by a snowstorm. They were prepared to go on without her but Knox appeared during the intermission and got a match with Danger. Lacey, Ariel and Mercedes Martinez were among those who couldn't make it through the storm in time, so volumes 2 and 3 could have been much different had things gone according to plan.
  • Her 60-minute Iron Woman Match with Daizee Haze for SHIMMER Volume 7 was scrapped due to her Game-Breaking Injury.
  • Her initial gimmick on live events had her reading rude limericks about her opponents but it was dropped pretty soon. She also did the Oireland gimmick as a heel act, and there's footage of her using it in a match against Bayley on a live event.
  • She and Bayley went through a small phase of wearing co-ordinated gear and wrestling synchronised moves. They teamed together once on TV but nothing ever came of it.
  • Her finisher was originally called the Disgusting Elbow - after a backstage segment where Sasha Banks mocked her for how she pronounced the word "disgusting". It was soon renamed the Dis-Arm-Her.
  • Her rock pit Face gimmick was meant to last a lot longer than it did. However two women about to debut on TV - Veronica Lake and Kendall Skye - were released. As NXT had a sudden lack of heels - with Sasha Banks as the only one - and the aforementioned two planned to make up numbers, Becky had to be hurriedly turned heel to fill that void.
  • She considered adopting a really Punny Name — such as 'Daly', presumably hoping to become a Fountain of Memes. Ultimately she picked Lynch, as it had been the last name of the owner of a gym called Raw where she trained before her comeback.
  • She was meant to pull the heel turn at Money in the Bank following her and Natalya's loss to Charlotte and Dana Brooke, but it was ultimately changed to Natalya.
  • It was strongly rumoured that the third woman to be called up for the 2015 'Divas Revolution' storyline was actually meant to be Bayley, but she was suffering from an injury at the time. Had Bayley been called up instead, Becky possibly would have gotten the NXT Championship win and eventual Iron Man match against Sasha Banks instead. On NXT at the time, Becky had just competed for the title against Sasha and was in the middle of a Heel–Face Turn - and her spot as the Morality Pet of Team PCB does seem like it was written for Bayley.
  • Without a doubt, the centerpiece match of Survivor Series 2018 was supposed to be Becky, the SmackDown Women's Champion, versus the Raw Women's Champion, Ronda Rousey. It was the first match WWE confirmed after Evolution, it was the first to get any explicit buildup on television, and it was the focus of the ending to Raw's go-home show, where Lynch led the SmackDown locker room into an all-out attack on Rousey and the Raw Survivor Series team. Unfortunately, Nia Jax stiffed Becky in the face during the brawl, and while Becky kept it together long enough to finish out the beatdown and have quite possibly her most badass moment yet, Becky sustained a legit concussion from the attack and had to be pulled from the match. Becky didn't vacate the title, but had to select Charlotte Flair to face Rousey in her place.
  • Two WrestleMania entrances Becky had planned were squashed due to various circumstances:
    • Becky was filmed wearing a set of mechanical wings shortly before WrestleMania 32, suggesting she was going to wear them for her entrance in the triple threat match. According to her, they weren't approved by management and she couldn't wear them in case they malfunctioned.
    • For WrestleMania 36, Becky's entrance was going to involve her being driven in by a big rig emblazoned with her face on it. However, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic forcing the show to proceed at the Performance Center, this couldn't happen. The rig was instead used for the 3:16 Day episode of Raw, showing Becky pulling into the PC parking lot with it.
  • Becky was offered to appear in Fighting with My Family^note Becky was acquainted to the Knight family in real life, as she served as Sweet Saraya and Britani (Paige)'s manager in SHIMMER - not to mention she had been an actress prior to her return to wrestling. but declined, as she already took a short time off TV to shoot The Marine 6.
  • Becky was reportedly offered a role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe at the time her pregnancy was announced, but details were few and far between. Fightful later elaborated that she actually went as far as shooting a mid-credits scene for Eternals, and while the report stated that she impressed pretty much everyone involved, said scene later ended up being deleted due to ultimately being considered to be "too depressing".
• Written-In Infirmity: Nia Jax broke Becky's face with a stiff punch in the lead-up to Survivor Series 2018; Becky shook it off and kept going, with her proudly flaunting her bloody face going viral and sealing her as a badass for a lot of her doubters. However, this also forced Becky to be pulled from a scheduled match against Ronda Rousey at the aforementioned event, with Becky selecting Charlotte Flair to face Rousey in her place. WWE then had Nia crowing about the punch on Twitter, although the only resolution it ultimately led to was Becky beating up Nia during a backstage segment.

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