Becky Lynch on first title reign mistakes – “I tried to make people stars”

Becky Lynch was the first SmackDown Live Women’s Champion when the title first debuted back in 2016. At Hell in a Cell a couple of weeks ago, Becky was able to regain that title after 2 years of fighting for it after beating Charlotte Flair. She talked about how it feels now and what went wrong the last time she was champ, on Lilian Garcia’s Chasing Glory podcast.

“I feel a lot more comfortable in the role this time around. Before, maybe there was a sense of apology to it? Like, oh, sorry I am the champion guys. Maybe there was a sense of that. I don’t know why; I never had one before, not at least in WWE. I worked very hard for it. It is an internal game more than anything, and it was pretty much an inside job.”

Becky then continued on the topic, going over what she thinks she did wrong, and how she will change it.

“I tried to make people stars. Everyone that I had worked with I tried to make them all look like a million bucks, but at some point, you start to go, okay, how many people are doing that for me? It’s not their job and it shouldn’t be their job. They should be caring about themselves. It started to become like, okay, you have to do this. Not that it is a selfish thing, but you have to start caring about yourself and start to elevate yourself and you will start to bring others with you because everyone else has to start stepping up once you do.”

Becky also goes on to say how she needs stop wrestling at her opponents’ level; she needs to elevate them up to her level.

“I wasn’t taking what I wanted and I was apologizing for it. I was apologizing for everything so it was like, no, you can’t apologize for everything. If you want to go after something go after it, and it is okay. If they want it they are going to step up and they are going to take it and they aren’t going to apologize for it either, which I hope they are not. Then, I am going to step all over them even more and then I am going to take it back. It is going to be this beautiful cycle where we are going to be elevating one another.”

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