During an appearance on last week’s edition of WWE’s “The Bump,” Becky Lynch discussed pursuing her dream of professional wrestling when she was younger and quitting the industry at 19 after feeling the need to get a real job.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On leaving wrestling when she was 19: “I left wrestling when I was just 19 years old. I had already main-evented in Korakuen Hall in Japan and wrestled all over Europe, Japan, and Canada. And at 19, I felt like it was time to give up on my dream and be realistic and do a realistic job.”
On realizing she was wrong: “In those seven years, … you’d just see how much I would constantly be trying to convince myself that I was okay without it — that I was fine — but it would just always come back. It sounds so dramatic but it was like coming to terms with a death, but then you find out that that person isn’t dead and then you have to reconcile with — okay, now I get to have this whole new life again.”
Lynch will challenge Rhea Ripley for the WWE Women’s World Championship at WrestleMania 40 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
