The one particular person Becky Lynch thinks has an opportunity to take her WWE Uncooked girls’s championship belt from her? The wrestling star’s 13-month-old daughter.
Becky Lynch might have met her match for her hardest foe but. Bianca Belair and Liv Morgan? Nah, defeated and dumped down the depth chart. Ric Aptitude? Not fairly, largely as a result of it’s a one-sided, previous man yelling-at-the-clouds rivalry on the Nature Boy’s half.
OK, Ronda Rousey? Hey, if the previous UFC champion that Lynch pinned at WrestleMania in 2019 desires a rematch, simply title a date — say, the primary weekend of April in Dallas — and it’s on.
Wrestling followers are awaiting that match.
However the “ solely girl ” Lynch says that has an opportunity of taking the WWE Uncooked girls’s championship off her, is her 13-month-old daughter, Roux.
She took a sabbatical driving excessive as WWE’s model of “ The Man ” and had pilled up online game covers, purple carpet poses and crossover alternatives at a extra fast tempo than her profitable streak, however she returned as a mother, keen to indicate her toddler as she grows older that doorways busted open for girls in skilled wrestling had been kicked fairly onerous by Lynch.
“At some point, if my little woman desires to do that, there aren’t any limits for her,” she stated.
This working mother nonetheless has a couple of beatdowns to ship.
“I need to ensure that this yr I’ve higher matches than I had final yr,” she stated. “And this yr I get individuals speaking greater than I did final yr. It’s simply always eager to elevate, one myself, and two, this enterprise and the ladies which are going to comply with after me.”
Lynch defends her WWE Uncooked girls’s championship in one of many marquee matches Saturday in WWE’s Royal Rumble at The Dome in St. Louis, Missouri. Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns are on the cardboard. So is “Jackass” star Johnny Knoxville and don’t be stunned if rapper Dangerous Bunny pops up, as properly.
The primary points of interest, after all, are the boys’s and girls’s Rumble the place 30 opponents in every match attempt to turn into the final wrestler standing to earn a title shot at WrestleMania.
Lynch gained the Rumble in 2019 and went on to important occasion WresleMania that yr in a triple-threat match that included Rousey. The 34-year-old Lynch places her title on the road this yr towards Doudrop. Her husband, star Seth Rollins, fights Reigns for the WWE Smackdown championship.
Lesnar places the WWE belt on the road towards Bobby Lashley, and Edge and Beth Phoenix wrestle The Miz and Maryse in a mixed-tag, married-couples match. Edge gained the Rumble final yr.
The 48-year-old Edge, thought of one in all WWE’s high all-time performers, is aware of slightly one thing about getting back from a break. The Canadian was recognized with cervical spinal stenosis and compelled to retire in 2011. He gave a teary retirement speech on an episode of WWE’s flagship “Uncooked” TV present, was inducted into the corporate’s Corridor of Fame and carved out a profitable area of interest as an actor.
And he had moved on from his life because the Rated-R Celebrity.
“For some time, I didn’t watch, interval,” he stated backstage at a WWE cease this month in Philadelphia. “That was my mourning interval.”
Edge, born Adam Copeland, was instructed over a decade in the past there was “no possibility” and his profession was really over. He had recurring roles on two TV reveals that helped ease the sting of now not having the ability to ship spears in entrance of packed homes all over the world.
“It was nonetheless troublesome, however it will have been a really emotional curler coaster if I didn’t perceive that was it,” he stated. “I needed to come to phrases with it. Fortunately, appearing fell into my lap, so I used to be in a position to dive into one other artistic outlet. I feel if I didn’t have that, it will have been a far totally different decade for me.”
He additionally obtained married to Phoenix — one other retired WWE Corridor of Famer, having fun with a brand new profession as a wrestling announcer.
Edge had triple-fusion surgical procedure and was finally cleared to return. He made a comeback on the 2020 Royal Rumble, an anyone-can-show-up occasion recognized for springing shock former stars and nostalgia acts on the group because the clock ticks all the way down to zero. Edge dealt with the grind in ruthless feuds with Rollins and Randy Orton over the past two years, and now will get a second act together with his spouse to indicate, like Lynch, their younger daughters that mother and pop can nonetheless go within the ring.
“Even once I obtained the OK to return again, we by no means assumed that we’d work together on display screen,” Edge stated.
Phoenix additionally put her in-ring profession largely behind her, elevating children and had gone again to high school to arrange for her subsequent stage of life.
“I didn’t have any intentions of getting again within the ring simply because our girls’s division was so scorching and actually rising,” she stated.
Lynch helped lead the explosion of ladies’s wrestling in WWE, and billed herself as “The Man,” as she grew to become arguably the most well-liked star within the firm. She returned final summer time with a little bit of a imply streak and an outlandish wardrobe and calls herself “ Massive Time Becks.”
Aptitude, the WWE Corridor of Famer, has legitimately griped that he has the one proper to name himself “The Man.”
“When it’s time for The Man to return again round, The Man will come again round,” Lynch stated. “Massive Time Becks is what we’re going with now. However we personal that. Simply so you understand that.”
Lynch and Rollins have their very own bus and convey their daughter on the highway, even on WWE stops in Saudi Arabia.
“She’s slightly highway warrior,” Lynch stated.
And simply perhaps, Roux can name each dad and mom champs after the Rumble.
