Becky Lynch says the reason the Four Horsewomen worked was that none of the four tried to copy any of the others.
Lynch was asked about Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks and Bayley on the 100th episode of No Contest Wrestling with O’Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Jefferson, and what the group meant to her development. She was the show’s first active female in-studio guest.
“I think everything,” Lynch said. “We pushed each other in such a way that we were so competitive, but also at times supportive, and wanted to see everybody do well. And then at other times we were, well, no, I want to have the best match on the card. I want to be the best. I want to be the top dog.”
She said the competitiveness only worked because each of them was going somewhere different with it.
“You look at what Charlotte was doing, and she was very much going her way and being a star. And Bayley could look at that and go, okay, well, now I do that and I be queen. Or Sasha, now I be boss,” Lynch said. “But the fact that everybody was so different and individual, and nobody tried to replicate what anybody else was doing. They were very individual.”
Her comparison for it was a pop group.
“It was kind of like the Spice Girls. You had your ginger spice and your baby spice,” she said. “You had something that would appeal to a different audience, so we were all so distinct in how we looked and how we moved and who we were, that it was pretty perfect. And I think that as well pushed us, because you could compare, but you were all so different too. You had to be individual, but we all wanted to be the best.”
The four were never presented as a formal stable on the main roster, something Lynch noted when the hosts brought the group up alongside actual factions. The name came from fans and stuck. It works as a double reference to the Four Horsewomen of mixed martial arts and to the Four Horsemen, the group Charlotte Flair’s father led in the NWA.
The numbers behind the group are the reason it gets brought up at all. Lynch, Flair, Sasha Banks, and Bayley came up together in NXT in the mid 2010s, and Flair, Lynch and Banks moved to the main roster in the summer of 2015, with Bayley following. Between them, they have taken 31 women’s world championships, with Flair on 14, Lynch on seven, Banks on six, and Bayley on four. Lynch was the first Miss Money in the Bank and holds the record for reigns with the Women’s Intercontinental Championship.
Only three of them are still in WWE. Banks left in 2022 and works as Mercedes Mone in AEW, where she challenged Willow Nightingale for the AEW Women’s World Championship at All In: London on Sunday.
Lynch also made a point earlier in the conversation about not getting to the top too early, using Chelsea Green’s title win at SummerSlam as the example of a first-time win landing because the audience had watched the whole route. Green won the Interim WWE Women’s Championship in a ladder match on August 2 after eleven years in the business, and has said since that she stopped expecting it years ago.
“You don’t want to achieve too much right now. You want to be percolating, because if you get there and you’re so young, what else is there?” she said. “Let them bring you to it. If you get it now, that’s not going to feel as good.”
