Becky Lynch compares her NXT debut to Shockmaster’s.
When Becky made her NXT debut in 2014, she would debut a gimmick where she would Irish dance her way to the ring.
The character was dropped almost immediately, with Lynch adapting her “Lass Kicker” gimmick immediately following.
While the debut was bad, no one knows truly how bad more than Lynch, who put’s her NXT debut up there with Shockmaster’s
“If that is not proof that you can dig yourself out of any hole, then I don’t know what is,” Lynch told Chris Van Vliet on Insight. “That is…I would put that over Shockmaster in terms of shameful debuts. He just fell over. He fell over. Okay, fine, that sucks. I went out, I was committed to that. The difference is, he didn’t intend to fall over. I intended to go out there and do an Irish jig like that and thought that I was worthy on being on WWE television. That happened.”
Lynch continued, “There is always a catalyst for change. You just have to figure out what it is. Winning a match can be a catalyst for change. Losing can be a catalyst for change. You just sometimes need the right story, right antagonist or protagonist, depending on what way you’re going to go. That’s the fun thing about wrestling. We can do anything. You can go from being a stupid, silly, Irish dancing clown to being the man of the business, main eventing WrestleMania holding two titles over your head. That’s the thing about life, you don’t have to be stuck as the person you were or with the things you did. You can move on and learn from your mistakes and hope you never go back there. I will never go back in that green attire doing an Irish dance.”
Becky Lynch
Lynch is currently scheduled to defend her NXT Women’s Championship this weekend at NXT No Mercy against Tiffany Stratton.
We will have to wait and see how much longer Lynch will be involved in NXT programming once again.
H/T to Fightful for transcription
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