Becky Lynch on Women’s Division, Ronda Rousey, Match w/ Rousey, More

The Phoenix New Times held a recent interview with Becky Lynch discussing WWE’s Women’s division, thoughts on WWE signing Ronda Rousey, if she wants a match with Rousey, and more.

On the topic of WWE holding the first ever Women’s Money in the Bank and Women’s Royal Rumble matches, Lynched stated it has been an incredible experience for WWE’s women wrestlers and only made possible because of all the hard work done by everyone in the company.

It’s just incredible because you start off on your journey of whatever it is you want to accomplish, whether it’s in the wrestling industry or anything else in life. And you just have these goals and visions, and then they just start coming to fruition.

And I think, in general, we don’t sit back and take enough time to appreciate how much we’ve changed the [wrestling] landscape. You know what I mean? It’s completely different. It’s kind of almost like turning a regular town into New York City, basically.

It’s just amazing that, with everybody’s participation and everyone’s help, we’ve been able to get there. And what I thought was so great about the women’s Royal Rumble is that it was the culmination of everybody’s hard work. It wasn’t just my hard work, for the past two or three years, it’s been an ongoing battle, and it was all those women that were able to participate. And that lent a helping hand into changing it into what it is today.

On the topic of the remaining glass ceiling for WWE’s Women’s division, Lynch stated the biggest goals remaining are for a Women’s Tag Team championship to be introduced and for a women’s match to be the main event of a Wrestlemania.

You know what? Here’s the thing. It’s one thing to have all these firsts and we can make a big celebration of the first Royal Rumble, the first ladder match, the first Elimination Chamber, and all these things that are coming up, which are all wonderful. That’s great. Of course, I’d like to see the first woman’s tag team champs and then be that and be the first woman to main-event WrestleMania.

What I think is better than that is making it consistent and making it normalized and being able to interchange it so that it doesn’t even become a gender thing anymore. It’s a talent thing, it’s a character thing. And getting it to where it’s so normalized that we almost don’t ever notice. There’s not one or two women’s segments, there are just segments on the card and we just flow through them and there’s no real big deal about it any more, because it’s just consistent and everybody has that high level of skill. And the audience is invested in all of the characters, regardless of their gender.

On the topic of WWE recently signing Ronda Rousey, Lynch praised Rousey for becoming the first big female MMA star and generating mainstream interest for women’s MMA. She is also very excited to see what Rousey can bring to the ring as a wrestler.

So I think there’s a lot of good aspects, and I think that Ronda Rousey has obviously proven that she’s a superstar. Like, a colossal superstar. Before her, there were no women in the UFC. That’s remarkable. And she was an Olympian, and she brings in pay-per-view buys. There’s no doubt that she’s amazing.

I’m curious to see what she can do in a wrestling ring, because it’s a different kettle of fish. And, obviously, with UFC and with such an incredible history and being so accomplished in judo, she’s going to take up everything so easily. So it’s just going to be a matter of seeing how she does in this business. I know she’s a huge wrestling fan so that’s always great, too. I think you learn better and you learn faster when you’re a fan because you know what it’s supposed to be and you’re able to emulate your heroes and stuff like that.

When asked if she would like to face Ronda Rousey in a match, Lynch stated she would love to have a match with Rousey if ever given the chance by the WWE.

Of course, I would love to. There’s nobody that I wouldn’t want to either fight or wrestle. Any girl who comes in the door, I want to have a match with them and bring the best out of them and make a good, compelling story for our audience. There’s nobody I wouldn’t want to fight.

Other topics discussed included Charlotte and Asuka being great choices to main event a future Wrestlemania, women wrestlers having to work harder to prove themselves in the WWE than their male counterparts, being a fan of the Kim Possible show, her background in acting, and WWE’s Road to Wrestlemania.