Becky Lynch: WWE main events have ‘gone to two, maybe three, four dudes constantly’
Becky Lynch shared insights on the lack of women’s main events in recent years.
Lynch addressed her WWE contract after she indicated on Unreal Season 2 that this was her last one. She told Chris Van Vliet on the latest edition of his Insight Podcast that whenever she eventually steps away, her goal is to leave the business in a better place.
“I just want to tell good stories. I want to have good matches. I want to make sure the business is better when I leave it than how I found it.”
She emphasized that the women’s division needs to fight to reclaim their position in the main events. Lynch discussed how fans are conditioned to perceive certain stars as ‘main events’. And that in recent years three or four men have consistently occupied that spotlight.
“I know that what I have done is prove that women could be the biggest stars in this company, and they are and can be. I think sometimes we need to fight to make sure we’re positioned as such, because you can be a huge name, but if you’re not positioned in the main event. It’s very easy when we condition the audience, ‘This person’s the main event, this person’s the main event, this person’s the main event,’ we see them as the main event. When we don’t condition the audience, then it becomes a little bit harder.”
“And for the last few years, I think we’ve, for the most part, those main events have gone to two, maybe three, four dudes constantly. I think we need to change that again. I think we need to. I don’t know what that means, whether that means fighting a bit more, whether it’s me or somebody else.”
At WrestleMania 35, Lynch main evented the PLE with Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey. The second time it occurred was at Night One of WrestleMania 37 between Sasha Banks (aka Mercedes Mone) and Bianca Belair.
Lynch will compete at the PLE this weekend, not in a main event capacity but in a rematch for the Intercontinental Championship against AJ Lee.
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