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Heading into her huge NXT Women’s Title match against Sasha Banks at tonight’s NXT Takeover: Unstoppable, Becky Lynch has spoken to WWE.com about getting into the wrestling business, leaving it and eventually rediscovering her passion for it.
Surprisingly, she reveals that wrestling wasn’t always her passion:
“If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler. There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of. I didn’t think [wrestling] was what I was going to do. I was going to be a lawyer.”
After wrestling for a few years, she left temporarily left the business, feeling overwhelmed by the experience. She had difficulty finding the right career, though:
“I did personal training and was like, ‘This doesn’t feel right.’ I ended up working as a flight attendant for two and a half years, waking up feeling like, ‘This isn’t what I’m meant to do.’ It was a great job for anybody else.”
Becky then went back to school, getting an acting degree and writing her thesis on clowns:
“I did my thesis on clowns. It’s a powerful thing when you’ve got this little red nose on. It’s a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.”
Eventually, she made her way back to wrestling, realizing that nothing could match it for her. She describes it as feeling as though she had “unfinished business”:
“[Nothing] captured my heart the way wrestling did. I did all these things that were separating the aspects of wrestling and trying to make it fit. I’ve kept journals my entire life. During that time, I would always write, ‘I feel like there’s unfinished business. I feel like I should be in WWE, but I don’t know how to get there.”
You can read the full interview on WWE.com.
