On a recent edition of his “Oh… You Didn’t Know?” podcast, Road Dogg discussed Becky Lynch’s character work at WWE SummerSlam 2018.
According to WWE’s SVP of Live Events, the fan support for Lynch’s heel turn was unexpected and left him questioning the mindset of the audience. He said,
“The idea was Charlotte came in and weaseled her way in and won the [‘SmackDown’ Women’s Championship] and kind of stole it from [Becky]. Becky had a title match, and so, that’s just where some of us, maybe I’m older and I don’t understand, but you don’t just get handed crap around here, … so to me, the whole thing was I thought the fans were wrong. You’re cheering the wrong person here because what if the ‘Bad News Bears’ were shaking hands with the team, or whoever, your baseball-playing son is shaking hands, saying ‘Good game, good game,’ or softball-playing daughter [saying], ‘Good game, good game,’ and the team that loses just beats the crap out of the person. Do you pop for that or do you go, ‘Oh my God, what are you doing? That’s horrible sportsmanship.’ That’s what Becky did, and people loved it.”