Becky Lynch, Bayley, Sasha Banks and Charlotte Aptitude have been the 4 pillars of WWE’s Girls’s Revolution. Dubbed the 4 Horsewomen, they led the cost in 2015 to stage the taking part in area with their male counterparts. The idea of calling the ladies’s division “Divas” quickly vanished as they raised the bar for in-ring efficiency and introduced their distinctive, plain charisma.
The 4 Horsewomen share 29 mixed world championships, a number of WrestleMania primary occasions and record-length title reigns. Two of them — Lynch and Bayley — will problem for world titles at WrestleMania 40 this weekend. However as a brand new era of stars within the division emerge, some marvel if these warhorses ought to nonetheless maintain the frontlines.
“That is humorous, ‘Do I nonetheless have it?’ Rattling straight I nonetheless have it,” Lynch instructed CBS Sports activities whereas discussing her new memoir, Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Common Common Woman. “I’m it, been it and do not want a championship to show I am it.”
Take a look at the total interview with Becky Lynch beneath.
Lynch will problem Rhea Ripley for the ladies’s world championship at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Monetary Area. Their rivalry revolves round whether or not Lynch can overcome a youthful, extra highly effective foe in her athletic prime. It is a feeling that adheres to her fellow horsewomen as nicely. Aptitude, essentially the most adorned of the 4, has been plagued with accidents in recent times. Bayley, regardless of profitable the 2024 Royal Rumble, has solely partially salvaged a middle-of-the-road two-year run with and towards the Harm CTRL faction. Banks is being positioned as a cornerstone act however not in WWE. She signed with All Elite Wrestling this 12 months after a falling out with WWE in 2022.
New feminine superstars are cluttering the sector. Ripley, Belair and Iyo Sky are basic acts. Jade Cargill and Tiffany Stratton are poised for large breakouts in 2024. However Lynch will let you know this workhorse continues to be kicking and working laps round her rivals.
“I feel she tends to take the straightforward method out,” Lynch mentioned of Ripley. “She’s in no way the stay occasions. She’s not doing the schedule that I’m. She’s not doing the media that I’m. She’s not wrestling like I’m.
“In the previous couple of weeks — what am I speaking about — the previous couple of years after I’ve had banger after banger. I have been the heartbeat and the heartbeat of the ladies’s division. I have been the one transferring it ahead. She’s been hovering backstage speaking to the lads and holding the championship. I have been the one doing the onerous work.”
Lynch was all the time a dependable wrestler, however there was a ceiling to her preliminary “Irish Lass Kicker” gimmick. Her self-appointed moniker “The Man” — accompanied by a assured new swagger — catapulted her profession in 2018.
“I’ve by no means been protected,” Lynch mentioned. “I’ve by no means, ever, ever been seen as that individual to strap a rocket to and allow them to go. I labored for it. I earned it. I fought my option to it. As soon as I bought there, I did not need to let it go and I consistently combat for it.
“[Ripley] is the golden lady of yesteryear,” she added. “Let’s put a rocket on her again and ship her to the moon. Look, she is nice and she or he has that specific presence about her. However she’s been protected.”
Skilled wrestling is a cyclical enterprise the place the star energy of the outdated switch to the brand new. Lynch is not shy about serving to others the identical method she was helped. Final 12 months, the six-time girls’s world champion had a stint on the NXT developmental model, working with up-and-coming expertise. Lynch captured the NXT girls’s championship, turning into the sixth girls’s Grand Slam champion in WWE historical past, earlier than dropping the title to Lyra Valkyria. Lynch is a surefire WWE Corridor of Famer however she will not let anybody take her ambition away.
“I am the primary girl to win the primary occasion of WrestleMania. I’ve received each single match there may be to win in WWE. I’ve received each championship there may be to win in WWE,” Lynch mentioned. “I proceed to interrupt down obstacles and to interrupt by glass ceilings all whereas being a mom. All whereas being a best-selling creator.
“If I stop tomorrow, I’m nonetheless the best girl to have ever performed it. However I am not quitting tomorrow. I’ve a WrestleMania match that should occur… I will take that title from her. Do I have to show that I nonetheless have it? Okay, good. I did plant that seed of doubt. That seed grew right into a tree however what’s nice is that when folks imagine in me I am good. However when folks doubt me I’m nice. In truth, I am not simply nice, I’m an unstoppable monster.”