Dealing with setbacks appears to be part and parcel of succeeding in WWE.
There’s absolutely no question whatsoever that Irish sensation Becky Lynch has very much achieved success with wrestling’s biggest global entity.
The 38-year-old can look back at a stellar career to-date that’s a surefire bet for a Hall of Fame induction before all is said and done.
A multi-time world champion and Royal Rumble winner, The Man etched herself a place in the hearts of wrestling fans with a roguish confidence that helped her blossom in more recent years.
If Lynch has reaped the rewards of that success, it certainly came to her the hard way.
The star has never made secret the battles she’s had with confidence, notably earlier in her career both before signing with WWE and once with the company.
On paper, she made relatively short work out of NXT – effectively the developmental division – and cruised to success on the ‘main’ roster, feuding with Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks and Ronda Rousey to name a mere handful.
Underneath all of that, however, the ultimate underdog fought against the odds, and more than one or two bumps in the road.
In one of her first matches, for instance, she almost ‘kneecapped’ WWE Hall of Fame star Jim ‘The Anvil’ Neidhart and was given a backstage talking-to – thankfully a gentle one at that.
After overcoming early injury setbacks to make it on to top billing on NXT and even a debut on Raw, Lynch took part in one of the biggest matches of her career to that point at a packed house over SummerSlam weekend in 2015.
At the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, she fought Flair, Emma and Dana Brooke in a fatal four-way match in a bout to be aired on NXT at a future date and taking place before Takeover: Brooklyn.
In her autobiography, Lynch penned how much the event meant to her personally, explaining: “I had put my mother through so much while she was raising me, but she was going to see how worth it it all was.
The planned fatal four-way match was a huge 2015 showcase of WWE’s future talent“How good I was in front of a crowd and how I was going to prove my worth to the company and the world.”
The plan for the match, which Lynch said was due to be ‘awesome’, was for each woman to shine but for Flair to win in the end.
In front of a sell-out crowd of thousands, though, disaster struck when the star was left momentarily dazed by an impact she took in the corner of the ring.
Unable to execute a planned kick out of a routine move from Emma, Lynch lay confused as the referee counted to three, the match ending at the wrong time and with the wrong winner.
“[I] got hit with a move by Emma in the corner, enough to jar me for a second,” she recalled.
“As I lay there thinking: ‘Is this where Dana comes to break it up? Where is she?’
Lynch was due to kick out of a pin but had been left momentarily dazedYouTube/WWE Emma ended up collecting a win even she didn’t expectWWE“I heard the referee count to three. Wait; three? I had forgotten to kick out. By the time I realised it was the wrong spot, the match was unceremoniously over.
“There was an audible “Eh, what?” from the audience as they realized they had witnessed a giant f*** up.
The Limerick born grappler lamented: “It was over, and it was my fault. I had ruined the match with the mother of all botches. I saw Charlotte looking furious from the other side of the ring. I had also stolen her victory.
“Emma looked confused as she got her hand raised. I looked up at the full arena—fifteen thousand strong had seen me fall flat on my face—and then I saw my mom, still an encouraging shy smile on her face, but pained with sympathy. She didn’t understand wrestling but understood enough to know I did something wrong.
“I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.”
Clearly feeling dejected and at her lowest after the mishap, Lynch feared even worse as she trudged from ringside to the backstage area where she knew WWE boss Vince McMahon would be among those waiting for her.
GettyLynch was certain an unpleasant welcome from Vince McMahon was awaiting her[/caption]Fully expecting to be fired there and then, she was given an even greater shock.
She went on: “When I got to the back, I was certain I’d be handed my separation papers: ‘Thanks for coming, you’re the s****. Now please never show your face in this company again.’
“I walked over to the desk where Vince was sitting, headset on, ready to be told he wouldn’t need me the next day for SummerSlam.
To my shock, however, he was simply worried about me. ‘Are you okay?’, he asked genuinely and kindly, fearing I had lost consciousness from the knock in the corner.”
Vince’s daughter and then WWE executive Stephanie McMahon, renowned for her positive influence and outlook among stars backstage, also provided warmth and concern to a forlorn Lynch.
Her star quality may have been something the future Lass Kicker doubted in her own mind but, to their credit, WWE clearly didn’t – she did feature at SummerSlam the following night and picked up a win for her team in a multi-team tag match.
A year later, she won the first of her main roster titles – the SmackDown Women’s Championship – and has barely looked back since.
On a hiatus from WWE at present, fans are hopeful The Man will be back to cause mayhem again soon with WrestleMania season now at its peak.
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