WWE Hall of Famer Road Warrior Animal made headlines last month when he talked about former WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch by stating that he thinks Lynch should ‘back off the man thing.’
He also had some questions about her toughness and her being more believable in the eyes of WWE fans if she was portrayed as a ‘white meat babyface.’ This didn’t sit well with Lynch as she fired back with the following tweet, “the first four words of your headline are a lie”.
https://twitter.com/BeckyLynchWWE/status/1076995831121743872
Animal recently responded to Lynch’s latest comment during an episode of his What A Rush podcast where he clarifies his comments about the SmackDown star.
“If Becky Lynch is going to try to even have a comeback against a multi-time Hall Of Famer and what I’ve done in this business – she’s won one belt in her life, and that’s the WWE belt. Hawk and I won 22 different championships in 22 different companies, come on. I’ve wrestled people all over this world, not just in WWE. I’m not putting down Becky, but when you get the kind of stroke that I’ve had in this business and when you’ve laid the kind of foundation that I have for her even to have a job today, then you can call someone out. I’m not trying to be derogatory right now, but I’m just trying to be blunt honest.”
“Basically she just needs to get over herself and realize that this is the entertainment business. People are gonna have an opinion; good bad, indifferent, medium, down the line, whatever and I gave her more compliments than I did negative. If she just wants to pull out the little negative thing and let the positive things go by the wayside. That’s exactly how I feel about it…If someone wants to hang her hat on one little comment, as compared to ten positives, I rest my case. They are thinking about their own ego, rather than the big picture. If I were to be so worried about anything that anyone said about Hawk & I in our day – are you kidding me? I would have jumped off the fricking Missouri River Highway in St. Louis years ago, if I would have been worried about anything negative anyone ever said about us.”
H/T to WrestleZone for transcript
