WWE Superstar Lyra Valkyria recently opened up about the moment she decided to pursue a wrestling career, a path heavily inspired by fellow Irish star Becky Lynch. Speaking with Chris Van Vliet on “Insight,” Valkyria described herself as very shy when she first considered wrestling.
“Honestly, I don’t think I went, I can go do that,” Lyra Valkyria said about her initial thoughts. “It was one of those things where I was watching RAW super late… I was again, down the rabbit hole. Where can I go to do this?… I even considered giving a fake name so that if it goes really badly, no one has to know about it.”
The decision came suddenly. “It must have been 3 am… I kind of just went, I’m just going to do this,” she recalled. “It was just one of those freaky things that I was like, just get up and go, and it turned my whole life around.”
Seeing Becky Lynch achieve global success was a huge factor. “She’s the one that broke all the glass ceilings… It’s almost like you just need that one person to show you that it’s possible,” Valkyria explained. “So to have a woman from my tiny country of Ireland to have gone that far, I really feel like if she can, then why not me?”
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article please credit Chris Van Vliet with a h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
