Becky Lynch believes she will have to destroy her childhood hero Lita this weekend at WWE Elimination Chamber.
Ahead of her RAW Women’s Championship match this Saturday at Elimination Chamber, Becky Lynch sat down with Graham Matthews of Bleacher Report to discuss all things WWE. When asked about stepping into the ring with WWE Hall of Famer Lita, Lynch had trouble hiding her excitement for this dream match.
“Thirteen-year-old me would be losing their mind,” Lynch told Bleacher Report. “Even 30-year-old me would losing their mind. The me that had Lita first introduce the women’s title to them at WrestleMania 32 would be losing their mind. But the me that I am today, the champion, having gone through all of these obstacles, coming back better than ever, to have my childhood hero try to get a rub off that and try to challenge me at the most important time of the year, that’s very conflicting for me.
“I’m forced to either destroy my childhood hero or let her think she has a chance against me,” she said. “I have to destroy my childhood hero. This is an awful predicament that she’s put me in. Now, I realize the gravity of it and the impact of it and what it means for me and for the future and for Lita, and it’s huge, almost beyond my comprehension, that this is happening right now. If you told teenage me in 20 years that I’d be having a match for the Raw Women’s Championship against Lita, I think I’d literally lose my mind. My head might explode.”
Becky Lynch also addressed the daily criticism she and other wrestlers receive on social media and gives a perfect example of why she finds the entire situation silly.
“Here’s something: I was watching the Olympics last night and was watching these incredible athletes do ice skating. They’re doing these incredible 360s. I’m not a good ice skater. I’m sure I can put one foot in front of the other and keep my balance, but I can’t do flips and all of this mad stuff and dancing and twirls. I said to my husband, ‘I don’t like these people’ or ‘I don’t like their facial expressions’ or whatever it was, and then I laughed at how ridiculous that is.
“But imagine if I had put that up on Twitter,” she continued. “Imagine if I criticized these people who had been training their whole lives doing these impossible tasks that I’ve never done. Look, it’s silly. We here [in WWE], we’re the best at our game. We’re the best in the world and anybody criticizing me when I’m arguably the best at what I do is just silly.”
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