‘Now I’ve Ruined Women For Life’ – WWE Star Recalls Worrying Call With Vince McMahon

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A WWE star has recalled a worrying call with Vince McMahon where they believed they had ruined things for a generation of women.

In 2020, Becky Lynch had reigned as the Raw Women’s Champion for a year after winning the title in the main event of WrestleMania 35 the prior year.

Becky defended the title at WrestleMania 36 against Shayna Baszler after Shayna had only recently been moved up to the WWE main roster, with many believing Shayna would be the one to end Becky’s reign with the title.

Becky Lynch Hoped To Lose Raw Women’s Championship To Shayna Baszler

On top of the match being against Shayna, Becky also discovered that she was pregnant heading into the match, which led to her ultimately vacating the title after WrestleMania.

Speaking on Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum podcast, Becky noted that she had hoped to drop the title to Shayna at WrestleMania, but believes the company opted not to do so because of the pandemic.

She said:

“I was the champion at the time (of her pregnancy) as well, and I had hoped to have dropped the title at WrestleMania, because the company seemed like they were wanting to build this other girl.

“But I think because of the pandemic, I was a good guy at the time, they wanted all babyface finishes, they wanted the audience to be happy because there was enough going on.

“There was enough going on in the world for the world not to be happy about things, and WWE were like ‘lets make our audience happy about things’.

“But now I was the Women’s World Champion, the longest reigning champion in history, and I was pregnant, so I also had to drop the title, there is logistics around that too.”

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Becky Lynch Was Scared To Tell Vince McMahon About Pregnancy

Continuing on, Becky noted that the scariest part of her pregnancy was having to tell Vince McMahon that she was pregnant.

Becky noted she was scared to tell Vince about her pregnancy out of fear she would ‘ruin things’ for a generation of women after he just took the chance on having them main event WrestleMania.

She added:

“The scariest of all was telling my boss, Vince McMahon.

“I called him and I was, oh my God I was terrified. I was terrified he was gonna- I was his champion and he had taken this chance on women main eventing, etc. I was like ‘oh no, what if I’ve ruined it for a generation of women’.

“Then I was like, that’s also not fair. We should be able to do both. That’s how my head was going into that conversation of ‘oh, this is great for me, but now I’ve ruined women for life. They’ll never be trusted again’.”

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