Becky Lynch: ‘Charlotte & I Barely Scratched The Surface’

– Becky Lynch recently spoke with The UK Mirror, here are the highlights…

On Her Look at WrestleMania 33: A lot of people have been tweeting me saying it was from some video game [Horizon Zero Dawn] but unfortunately I’ve never even heard of that before, it was just actually my brainchild. I’ve always wanted dreads, I thought they would be really cool. After sitting there for 11 hours of somebody pulling your hair, I think I’ll never get them again! But they were cool for the night and I really liked the look. Then the facepaint, I was looking up Irish warriors and I came across this image and thought that’s pretty cool, so they let me put that on. Then when I came up with the gear, I actually bought this skirt that I thought was awesome and then I went to my friend who is a dressmaker and she just had lots of different material lying around. I basically put on the top in a way that I thought would look cool and she ended up just sewing it on. That’s how it all came together.

On Getting to Stay on Smackdown: I’m delighted I remained on SmackDown, I love SmackDown. I think it’s the better wrestling show and since day one I have wanted to be on SmackDown. Plus the fact we get Charlotte, who is an incredible talent and just amazing. I was sad to see my friends leave though, that was sad, like Heath Slater and Rhyno, Apollo Crews and Kalisto, and everybody else, I was like ‘no!’, The Miz and Maryse, Dean [Ambrose] and Bray [Wyatt], Mickie. But we got some great new talents here too, so I’m very excited for that.

On Looking Up To Mickie James: I was telling her I remember watching her manage AJ Styles, when she was Alexis Laree on the independents [Mickie was Styles’ manager in Ring of Honor in 2003]. It was crazy. I was telling her I remember her standing by the ring and her shoulders looked amazing, so that was another reason that I worked my shoulders so much ha ha.

On Getting to Work With Charlotte Again: I think we only barely scratched the surface. I think one of the turning points in the women’s revolution was actually myself and Charlotte going into our feud. Before then there had been lots of women’s matches, which was great, and we were getting to see the rewards, but there wasn’t really any depth behind it. Then once we started our feud that went into the Royal Rumble last year, I think that was really a turning point because we were able to see a friendship falling apart and that is something people can get into, as opposed to ‘okay, here’s women, there’s a revolution apparently, watch there matches’. This was something that people could relate to because it was one friend being ruthless and doing anything she could to win and screwing her best friend. Then it went off in a different direction but I would like to pick up where we left off.