On last week’s episode of WWE NXT, Lyra Valkyria defeated Becky Lynch to win the NXT Women’s Championship.
In a recent interview with the Irish Mirror, the reigning WWE NXT Women’s Champion revealed that it was Becky Lynch who inspired her to get into wrestling. She said,
“Seeing Becky debut in NXT was the thing that set the wheels turning in my brain and made me look into this. I saw a girl Irish dancing on this huge platform here and was thinking, ‘Where did she start this?’ and that was what set the wheels in motion and made me look up where I could do this and led me to [wrestling school in] Bray where it started.”
She continued, “I started when I was 17 and I do remember after my first session thinking ‘this is it, this is what I am going to do and I’m never going to look back.’ It’s the school where Finn Balor opened, Becky trained on the same mats and we’ve all trained with the same people and come through the same scene just all at different times which is crazy.”
