Becky Lynch and Ronda Rousey
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Becky Lynch towards Ronda Rousey in a singles match is what professional wrestling followers have needed to see since November 2018 – and Lynch is OK with making them wait just a little bit longer.
Lynch, who will defend her Uncooked ladies’s championship towards Bianca Belair on Evening 1 of a two-night WrestleMania 38 at AT&T Stadium on April 2-3 (8 p.m., Peacock), mentioned she wasn’t stunned WWE booked Charlotte Aptitude as Rousey’s first WrestleMania opponent after the previous UFC star returned from an almost three-year absence in January. The corporate has eyes on subsequent yr’s WrestleMania at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium to lastly maintain the match. It’s one followers have clamored for since Lynch was pulled from dealing with Rousey on the 2018 Survivor Collection as a result of she suffered a facial fracture and concussion from a stiff Nia Jax punch.
“I believe the concept was, let’s give it much more of a construct and probably do that in Hollywood [at WrestleMania 39] of all locations,” Lynch mentioned in a telephone interview. “I believe the concept was to provide it just a little bit of additional time, and hell, let frickin’ Ronda get her ft moist.”
The 35-year-old Rousey, like Lynch, lately had her first baby. She got here again 4 months later to win the Royal Rumble and has had simply seven official matches since. On account of successful the Rumble, Rousey chosen the SmackDown ladies’s champion Aptitude, within the storyline, to be her WrestleMania 38 opponent over Lynch, saying she would simply be the primary on her checklist.
It was Aptitude who took Lynch’s place at Survivor Collection in 2018 and Rousey received the bodily match by disqualification after the Queen hit her with a kendo stick. Lynch, who's now not working as a babyface, however the heelish “Huge Time Becks,” additionally has her personal unfinished story with Bianca Belair – courting again to her SummerSlam return in 2021 – to tie up at WrestleMania 38. It made pushing her long-anticipated assembly with Rousey down the highway a logical determination.
“We needed to inform this story with Bianca, too,” Lynch mentioned. “So was I stunned? No, not solely, not likely. I believe they considered Hollywood as possibly being the spot for the place this match would go down.”
She believes the viewers’s fascination with the match is rooted within the Survivor Collection feud that by no means actually obtained a payoff – although Lynch defeated Rousey and Aptitude within the historic fundamental occasion of WrestleMania 35 to turn into a double champion. It was Lynch’s “The Man” character in a storyline that challenged Rousey’s standing as “the chosen one,” getting catapulted to the highest of the roster after coming from UFC and never paying her dues. Her character, which noticed herself as the highest individual within the business, was resentful of that and wasn’t shy about saying it.
“My expertise, my talent, my means to speak has gotten me to the highest,” Lynch mentioned. “So I don’t care what your identify is, you’re behind me proper now. It was that angle that began this complete factor after which clearly we had been presupposed to have that Survivor Collection match and my face obtained busted open and we by no means had that one-on-one match. So possibly, we’ll have it subsequent yr. Perhaps one thing else will occur. I’m not fearful. I'm the identify proper now.”
One identify that can also be on Lynch’s checklist for a possible match is WWE Corridor of Famer Trish Stratus. Whereas Stratus has mentioned her 2019 SummerSlam match with Charlotte Aptitude in Toronto was her last one, the 2 crafted a Twitter feud round each of them showing at a WWE reside occasion in Ontario, Canada this previous weekend that might simply be used as a jumping-off level for a narrative. It obtained bodily with Stratus slapping Lynch at one level.
“I might finish Trish Straus,” mentioned Lynch, who defeated shut Stratus buddy and legend Lita at Elimination Chamber in February. “I’ve already ended her bestie. I might finish her too if she needs.”
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