SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch has conceded WWE needed to change tack on her planned heel turn after the reaction of fans.
The 31-year-old Dubliner is in the midst of an attitude change on the blue brand after turning on her best pal, Charlotte Flair, at SummerSlam in August.
Lynch went on to defeat Flair to claim the gold at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view last week and is currently one of the most entertaining stars in the company.
Her heel turn has been something of a work in progress, however, with the star herself, real name Rebecca Quinn, admitting it didn’t initially go to plan.
While Lynch is adept at playing the villain, her transition to a heel was met with a lukewarm response – with many fans determined to carry on cheering her.
The star of the upcoming film The Marine 6 opened up about the affair and accepted that having to turn her vitriol on the WWE Universe itself was a step too far.
"Well we tried that!" quipped Lynch, speaking as a guest on Lillian Garcia’s Chasing Glory podcast. "The crowd were like ‘ah now come on, Becky, you know we were with you the whole time’.
"I just feel like it’s hard for me to say [to the fans] ‘it’s your fault’ because the whole time, they have been cheering me, supporting me, and putting me in the position to win.
"They dictate a lot, so it just doesn’t make sense that I’d talk about how bad they are, because they obviously made their voices heard and supported me the whole time."
Whether playing the role of a good or bad guy on screen, Lynch is one superstar that certainly exudes confidence between the ropes and on the microphone.
With an edgy brashness to her promo work and an accomplished wrestling style, the star who was the first SmackDown Women’s Champion appears to be the complete package.
She revealed, however, that this was far from the case – conceding that she faced crippling confidence issues when first called up to the main roster from NXT and, shortly after, given that role as the maiden champion on WWE’s Tuesday night show.
Lynch hailed the influence of the legendary and irreplaceable Dusty Rhodes as a driving force behind easing those woes, saying the late, great American Dream helped turn her career around.
She added: "I don’t think I’d be here if it wasn’t for Dusty Rhodes because he really saw something in me.
"Cody [Rhodes – Dusty’s son] said it at his funeral, I remember him standing up and saying that Dusty never liked the finished products – the people that would come in and were already polished… he found that very boring because there was nothing to uncover.
"When he saw somebody with a little bit of spark who was a little bit broken – and I think at the time I was a little bit broken – he felt like he could mend that and mould that.
"When you get that confidence and that reassurance, it gives you that strength to carry on."
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