Becky Lynch has revealed that one of her parents really didn’t want her to follow the path of becoming a pro wrestler.
On an episode of Heat Eaters, Lynch admitted that her mother wasn’t sold on the idea at the start of her career.
“My mom didn’t like it. My dad was super supportive. She didn’t want me wrestling because, in fairness, there was nothing that I could point to at the time and say, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ When she was looking on TV and there’d be bra-and-panties matches and mud-wrestling matches, I’m like, ‘Yeah, I want to do something like that, but not that. I don’t want to do that,’” she said.
Lynch also explained why she got into the business to begin with.
“I was just going so that I would be less of a delinquent. So, it was literally just to organize my life and get my act together. You know what I mean? And it did. I started doing better at school. I started training. It changed everything. It changed everything in my life but it wasn’t for the goal of becoming a professional wrestler. I found a community that I loved and I found that if I worked hard at something I could get better at it. I was never good at anything. There’s something about wrestlers. We’re all, maybe there’s like a little screw loose, I don’t know, but there’s like there is something that bonds us all together. You meet so many different people from different walks of life and we were all co-mingling and having a great time and having the banter and having the crack and having the fun,” she said.
