Becky Lynch has fired back at the suggestion that she has become a glass ceiling preventing younger talent from rising, leaning fully into the criticism in character while also pointing to a real double standard she believes is applied to her that does not get directed at comparable male stars.
Speaking on the Cheap Heat podcast, Lynch was asked about the veteran’s dilemma, the idea that performers who break barriers can eventually become the barrier themselves. She addressed it directly and without hesitation.
“I absolutely am, I’m holding them down,” Lynch said. “This is what it’s like to be held down by the man. Let’s see if you can rise against it. If you can rise against it, good on you, then you deserve to be on the top. But you won’t, because I’m still the greatest of all time. I will hold them down and I will keep them down because they don’t deserve to be in my spot. But you want me to just roll over? I’m great, I’m amazing, I’m fantastic. I’m not gonna roll over. This is a competitive business. I need a child to feed.”
Lynch then pivoted to what she described as an unfair double standard in how this criticism gets applied. “You don’t do that with Roman,” Lynch said. “Roman comes out, he’s never around. He comes out, everybody cheers him. Not me. I’m around all the time, all the time, all the time, making the towns, getting in the ring with everybody, helping them, sacrificing yourself, showing them what it’s like to be great so they can see and go, oh, that’s how great I want to be. And I’m in there with them, and I’m beating the bejesus out of them because I’m great. And they want me to not be great?”
Lynch is scheduled to challenge AJ Lee for the Women’s Intercontinental Title at the show. WrestleMania 42 takes place April 18 and 19 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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