Becky Lynch was a recent guest on “The School of Greatness” podcast to discuss a variety of topics, including the advice she received from the likes of John Cena and The Rock.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On John Cena giving her advice about establishing her character more: “‘Who are you? I don’t know who you are.’ That’s what [Cena] said to me. I would go to him, I would ask him for advice. He was like ‘I don’t know who you are. I don’t know who you are.’ I would get so mad because people would be chanting my name. I was like ‘Well, they knew.’ I’ve always had this connection with the audience where they would chant for me even when I didn’t have an established character or whatever. There was always a connection.”
On getting advice from The Rock: “One of the things that [Johnson] said to me that I still think about, and think about regularly, is ‘What do you think about in the quiet of the night when everybody’s gone to sleep, when there’s nobody? What is it that you dream of? Keep that at the forefront of your mind.’ The other thing that he said to me was when my dad passed way … He said, ‘Now he’s always with you,’ and even saying it now just makes me feel a certain [way] because now he is always with me.”
Mike Rotunda recently appeared on the “Stories with Bradshaw and Briscoe” podcast to comment on jumping ship from WCW to WWE, his IRS gimmick, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On his Michael Wallstreet gimmick in WCW: “Tony Schiavone came up with the idea of doing the Michael Wallstreet [gimmick]. So they put me with Dustin’s old wife…Teri [Runnels]. She did the computer stuff, and it was good content, because the movie ‘Wall Street’ was hot, and I supposedly inherited this money. So I hired a girl to do my statistics, so I knew how to beat somebody. The problem was…they [WCW] had sent me a notice saying they weren’t renewing my contract.”
On leaving for WWE: “So Tony Schiavone came up with this idea, and I did it, and USA Today called me, and wanted to do an article. I did the Inside Edition, and back then, they couldn’t buy any promotion like that…I did the show, I did the article, and so Jim Herd sent me a thing ‘We’re going to extend your contract for six months.’ And I’m like ‘You’re out of your freaking mind.’ So I called Vince, and that’s when I went back into WWE because I knew what was going to happen in six months. They’d just start beating me and the character would be dead.”
On becoming IRS in WWE: “It was definitely my most known character. I did Mike Rotunda with Barry Windham for a couple of years, and then I did the Varsity Club, which I thought they cut short. They could’ve gotten a lot more mileage out of that. And then, like IRS, I did like 5 or 6 years, so it was the longest run [of my career]. And it worked well with Ted and I, because Ted was the rich millionaire guy, and I was the crooked tax man, and it kind of just meshed.”
