Becky Lynch
Appearances
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
I haven't changed. No, I haven't changed. What has changed about me? I told you how good she was. I told you she was great. And what did she do? She goes and loses. She made a fool out of me. She made a fool out of me, so I beat her up. But she acts like she's never gotten beat up before. This is wrestling. That's what we do. You know? And now she's coming after me.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
She's saying that she's better than me. When I literally wrote the road map for her to follow. I wrote a book on it. New York Times bestselling book. Megan's read it. I don't know about you. Maybe you'd learn a thing or two. I gave her the road map. And then she comes at me and she says, I'm better than you? I'm better than you? The arrogance. The arrogance.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
As if she wouldn't even have a dream if it wasn't for me. Like, she wouldn't know what wrestling is. She thinks I invented wrestling.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Sorry, but he was saying, hmm, hmm, you got any other thoughts about that? No, no, I didn't want to... You think that she'd be in the WWE, the biggest professional wrestling business of all time. You think she'd do that if I didn't do what I did. You think that?
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Not only does Sports Illustrated say it, but another list with the 20 greatest wrestlers of all time also puts me on that list. Not just like 20 best... It was all wrestlers, men and women, they put me on that list. I think I was number like three or something. Of all time, like men and women.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
I will say I was underrated on that one.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
I get the better of her last week. No, no. Do you remember?
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
She had the grandstand at the end. I thought she was great. And then you came back. She was the greatest thing that ever lived. Look at me. Birds fly. Watch me soar. Like an eagle. You know? Get them wings out. And then I went, bam. In her back. And then she cheap shots me tonight.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
No, I'm aghast. I met the quiet, nice, polite girl. I said, look, listen to me, you like birds? I like birds. Let me take you under my wing.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Ich meine, wir waren... Nein, ich war nicht an den Freitagen. Ich war an den wichtigen Dingen.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Und ich suche nach meinem Mann, weil ich auch eine tolle Mutter bin.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
There's a... You heard about that. I don't know for a fact. Megan knows about this. Megan's a mother. She knows about this. You don't know anything about this.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
You're talking about the... I'm not taking credit for anybody else.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
I didn't take credit for anybody else. I don't want to claim anybody else. No. That's not my level.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Oh, they had a great year. What are you talking about? They had a great year. Freaking women's world title revolved around some bloke with a dodgy looking mustache. What are you talking about? They had a great year. What are you talking about? Oh, everybody had the best year of their life because I wasn't here yet because you couldn't compare me. You can't compare yourself to the best.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
You know, just like mediocre and then like, oh, I'm the best at mediocrity, is what they were saying. And then I come back and I'm like, lads, Hier ist der Beste. Und sie sagen, oh nein, ich kann nicht mehr der Beste sein. Und ich werde darüber klagen. Und ich werde sagen, oh wow, warum hilfst du mir nicht? Weil das ein kompetitiver Sport ist. Du Idiot. Was er darüber spricht. Ich helfe dir.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Es ist nicht mein Job, um dich zu helfen. Es ist mein Job, dich zu verletzen. Ich werde dich verletzen. Warum ist das überraschend? Oh, Vicky hat professional Wrestling herausgefunden. You're stupid. She's going around here like a 20, 25 more skilled version of Coco Beware, you know. Sam, you'll get that reference.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Thank you for your moment of appreciation. It's about time, Sam.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
I'm the bad guy. I'm the bad guy. All I've done is be lovely to some people. Like a few people. Like Lyra. Do you remember when she didn't beat me, but she won in NXT. She won the NXT Women's title. Yeah. Right. Und sie hat mich mit einem schnellen Roll-Up gewonnen. Ein sehr schnelles Roll-Up. Es war kein definitiver Winn. Sie hat mich mit einem sehr schnellen Roll-Up gewonnen.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Weißt du, was ich danach gemacht habe? Weißt du, was ich danach gemacht habe? Weil ich so eine tolle Person bin. Halt deine Hand.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Das ist wahr. Halt deine Hand. Weil ich so eine Person bin. Was macht sie heute Abend? Sie kippt mich in den Gesicht.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Ich meine, wenn du sprichst... Auf meinem wunderschönen Gesicht. Auf meinem wunderschönen Gesicht, übrigens, der bereits beschädigt ist. Schau, mein Nase sitzt nicht mehr perfekt in Ordnung. Mein Schulter ist ausgelöst. Ich habe Schmerzen auf meinen Armen. All das, weil ich das in dieser Industrie gegeben habe. Ich wehre die Schmerzen, die ich auf meinem Körper gemacht habe. Ich wehre sie.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Ich wehre sie mit Freude, weil ich alles zurückgegeben habe. Und diese Leute gehen herum, sie vergleichen mich mit der schmutzigen Person auf der Erde. After everything I've done. After everything that I've done for them. No, I can see where that would bother you. And I'm the bad guy. I'm supposed to just sit here and take it. I'm supposed to go, oh, I'm sorry.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Even though I didn't do anything wrong. I broke through glass ceilings. I changed the game. I broke by the mothers.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Es scheint nicht, als ob du Spass hast.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
You smash a ceiling, you leave some glass. You know, a resourceful person might take that glass, build a sculpture of me.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
2013? Wow, so lange? Warum ist jemand so wie ich und Bailey oder unsere besten Freunde? Ich bin nicht so wie diese Frau. Vielleicht ein Monat hier und da. Aber dann wird es entweder ich an sie oder sie an mich schießen, weil wir nicht schießen. Wir schießen nicht. Sie ist nicht der Beispiel. für die Industrie. Nein, sie ist einer von diesen Leuten, wo Lyra, das ist, was passiert ist.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Das ist, warum ich sie nehmen musste, weil das ist, was Lyra sagt, wie, oh, du hast mir nicht geholfen. Natürlich habe ich dir nicht geholfen. Natürlich, es ist jede Frau, aber ich habe dir geholfen. Ich habe dir geholfen. Nein, ich habe Lyra geholfen, aber ich habe nicht alle anderen geholfen, weil natürlich, ich werde nicht alle anderen helfen, weil es ist jede Frau für sich selbst.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Verstehen wir das nicht? Wenn ich alle helfe, dann sind alle, wie, ich muss gewinnen. Wie, mein Job ist, zu gewinnen. You want me to take food off my child's plate, is what you're saying? Because I will get paid more the better that I am. Why am I going to help anybody else? This isn't show friends, this is show business.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
But like, Bailey is so confused about this, she's probably paying $100 a month to her best friend to text her.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Yes. Yes. And also it's WrestleMania. Um ehrlich zu sein, wer hat sich über dieses Spiel interessiert? Habt ihr euch interessiert? Oder soll ich sagen, dass ihr euch interessiert habt? Ich habe mich interessiert.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Das Publikum, das ich gehört habe, hat sich interessiert, bis ich rausgekommen bin. Und dann interessierten sie sich. Und dann sagten sie, oh ja, der Mann ist zurück.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Oh, sie ist zurück. Das war Megan. Das war Megan. Das war auch Megan. Sie sagte, mein Leben ist komplett. Der Mann ist zurückgekommen.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
She lost. I came back to win.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
I came back to help her win. I did do that. I helped her. And then she immediately loses. So I know now it's too late. She's been compromised to a permanent end by Bailey. Wow.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
What? I gotta leave my child to lose.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
I don't think that that's what... Megan, would you leave your child to lose? Absolutely not.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
I mean, like her goodness is compromised.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
These newer people.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
It's not that hard. It's not that hard. But for some reason it seems to be hard. And it seems to be harder on the women's division. Look at the men's. Who you got that's hot and young over there? No. You got a bunch of old lads. And nobody's saying nothing. Nobody's saying like, move over. Move over, CM Punk. Move over, Seth Rollins. Nobody's saying that. But they'll say it to me.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
So who's the backup?
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
Why am I supposed to move over?
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
The only time I'm going to move over is to make way for more titles. So I'm going to move over so I have more space to put my titles in.
Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant
Becky Lynch continues her TRASH TALK of Lyra Valkyria | Raw Recap
And nobody's moving me over.
The School of Greatness
How To Turn Self-Doubt Into Your Superpower - The Mindset of Champions
It is.
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Exactly.
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Gosh, I think that's, you know, I think that's the thing is that you don't get confidence by thinking about having confidence. You know, you get confidence by action. And I never had confidence before I started wrestling. And I think that's why...
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I was always trying to fit in with the kids that were drinking and that would make me cool and then I'd be smoking and it would take the edge off from the self-consciousness and everything that was going on at home at the time. And then when I was 15, And I just failed PE.
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I was getting ready for my junior cert, which is, I'm not sure what the equivalent is over here, but when you're 15, you're doing these exams in school. That at the time, they make it seem like if you fail these, your life is over.
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But yeah, all the pressure that they put on you in school.
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Yes, exactly.
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And that's how, and that's what... what I felt like. And at the time, even though I was a little degenerate and I wasn't doing good in school and I was drinking and I was smoking, I was doing everything that I shouldn't be doing. Like I still had ambition. I still wanted to do something good in my life. I still wanted to be a lawyer or something productive in society.
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And I realized on one random Monday when I wanted a beer that at 15 that I needed to turn my life around. I needed to do something different that I couldn't keep going down this pathway of failing PE and just
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not applying myself to anything and so I started looking up like different kickboxing things because gyms weren't the thing in Ireland back then there was like two or something you know there was there was there was this big gym but it was too preppy it was too preppy and I was an alternative kid you know the ones with the black lipstick and the dog collars and all that kind of stuff and uh and so I you know going to a gym just seemed too mainstream for me too too Jane Fonda for me
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And so then one day I go into the computer room because in 2002 everybody had a computer room and my brother's looking up this website and it was called Hammerlock and it was this wrestling school over in the UK. And I was like, what are you doing there? And he was like, well, I was thinking about training as a wrestler. Instantly I had this jealousy, this feeling of I need to do that.
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And I was like, are you going to go over there? And he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, there's no way. There's no way my mom is going to let me go over to the UK to train. I'm 15. I'm also a degenerate. Like she's aware. She's aware that I'm going off the rails.
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And then the promoter there wrote back to him to let him know that there was two Irish lads that were going to be opening a school like an hour away from us on the train. And so that's how I found out about it. And he told me that. And I was like, oh, I want to go too. He was like, no, you're not going. You have to be 16. And I was like, I'll lie.
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And he was like, no, I don't want to have to look after my little sister. I was like, you won't have to. lying and I went down there and I started and that was it all of a sudden for the first time in my life I wanted to apply myself to something I wanted to get better at something I saw progress in each training session.
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And that built confidence because not only was I applying myself and getting better at something and seeing results, but I also now had this community. And I think there was also this feeling of like, I'm different, which, you know, I always felt a little different. You know, I wasn't a cool kid, even though I tried to be. But now I had this confidence in my difference, you know?
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And I was the only girl there too. I was the only girl in a group of lads and I was hanging with them or maybe not, but I was there. I felt like I was. And so that gave me confidence that I could do this and I could set myself apart and there was something more to me. And then I just continued on there. I never thought, or not that I never thought,
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Maybe I had like this suppressed dream, but I still thought I was going to be a lawyer and do something realistic.
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Until I was like 17. And it was the first time I had...
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played the heel role the bad guy role and I was teaming with my brother and when you're a heel when you're the bad you can do no wrong because you can just have fun you can taunt the crowds you can be an idiot and that's your job yes there's such freedom in that there's such freedom in that and I came back and I was this is this is this is what I need to do this is what I'm meant to do this is what I'm going to do
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At 17. And then by 18, dropped out of college, moved over to Canada, wrestled around Canada, around America, around Japan, around Europe. My visa ran out from Canada. I had to move back in with my mom. And my mom, God bless her, like... She's only ever wanted the best for me. And the best in her eyes was not being a wrestler. Especially back then.
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Because what I wanted, what I visualized for myself was... was me being seen on par as The Rock, as Stone Cold Steve Austin, as Mick Foley, as all these lads that I looked up to. But if you watched TV and you watched how the women were booked, there was lots of brown panties matches, there was mud wrestling matches. That wasn't anything I wanted to do.
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That was certainly nothing my mother wanted me to do. And so...
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Not in the way that I wanted to be. Not in the way that I wanted to be. And so I started looking at the women's promotions in Japan. And then I went over there and I wrestled in Japan. And I got assigned to this advertising agency over there that wanted to promote me as this big-time wrestler. But then when I came home and I had to live with my mom again, she's gone... What's your plan?
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What's your plan? What's your plan? What's your plan? What's your plan? Because she always wanted a plan. But with wrestling, and I suppose any artistic endeavor, I genuinely think wrestling is an artistic endeavor. You can't necessarily plan that.
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You can have a rough plan, but so much is out of your control. You know, you can work towards what you want. You can't decide when you're going to get on somebody's radar what they're going to be looking for. You know, I think it's the same with, say, for example, an actor. An actor can do the best audition of their life, but they might have brown hair and the person is looking for blonde hair.
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And so they see this great audition, but that's not what they were looking for on that day. And so I started to believe that if I looked a certain way, that that would give me, that that was my plan.
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That is how I would get there because all these women looked like figure competitors and they were beautiful models and, you know, it was... Just a regular average looking girl with a bit of a pair of biceps on me and decent set of shoulders. But like at the time, you know, there was there was enhancements that were standardly involved in the hiring process.
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And I didn't have them, nor did I want to get them.
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and uh and and so i thought well if if i have abs and if i'm ripped then if i look in this way then they'll want me and so i kind of compare it to the uh survivor song and on the eye of the tiger and you you change your passion for glory because then my my focus shifted from just how i looked and how that would make if i change how i am to make them want me as opposed to being true to myself.
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For who I am.
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Well, it didn't last very long because I completely destroyed myself. So I started bodybuilding then. I was like, oh, let me sign up for this bodybuilding competition. And if I can do well in this bodybuilding competition, then they'll see that. just the logic that goes through my head. They'll see that. And then they'll be like, oh yeah, let's sign her.
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Like she'll be on a magazine or something and we'll sign her that way.
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I was 19 then. And I mean, maybe it would have worked if I committed to it. But anyway, the point was, I didn't know what I was doing. I was with this lad who had never trained a girl before. He was a bodybuilder himself, but he was a giant man. And a giant, giant man and who had done many competitions. And he was training me and my diet, then my diet was all over the place.
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And then he put me onto this other guy who gave me this other diet, which then I just became a messiah. And I was trying to wrestle around Japan and all this stuff.
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body was just hurting but like I was loving how I looked in the mirror because I had these abs and I was like disciplined and my focus was what I was going to eat and how I was going to train and like I had this then sense of ego like like look at how disciplined I can be I am so much better than everybody because I have this discipline but ultimately I was like dying on the inside because I had no energy hmm
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My moods were all over the place. I was like leering at cookbooks of what I was going to eat when this diet finished. And ultimately I ended up not being able to make it past 10 weeks of this diet. There was two more weeks to the competition. I just... The guy who was trying to me suggested a cheat meal, and that was it. Then I just went completely off the rails and couldn't get back on. Wow.
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And then that then became an unhealthy relationship with food for years.
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Really?
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Years and years and years, completely destroyed how I looked at myself and everything like that and how I valued myself.
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on how I looked. From somebody who had gone from valuing myself on my substance and what I brought to the table in terms of wrestling and my craft, I was then just now, I was just conforming to what I thought thought they wanted and what society wanted. But by then, then I was like, I don't even know if I want to wrestle anymore. Maybe that dream is over.
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It's time to be realistic and get a real job. Then I ended up being a flight attendant.
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Yeah.
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Well, then I was like, well, then I started thinking like, oh, well, maybe I'll be a fitness model because that'll be easy on my body. But I couldn't maintain it because I was so hungry. I just loved eating. I loved eating so much. And so then I became bulimic and all of these things. And it was really just going from being somebody who cared about
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About their mind, who thought their mind was powerful to just thinking that I was a set of abs and a pair of arms, you know, and that was where I put my focus. It took a long time to shake that.
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35 wow no no no no quite but like um i think it was a process it was a process it was it was a process because i was a flight attendant hated it but was still trying i then did the bodybuilding competition i came third by the way wow out of four okay Four entries. Yeah, it sounded impressive. So I did the Buddy Button competition, was like standing up on stage.
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Oh my goodness, I'm so glad they just, everybody didn't have an iPhone back then. But I did that and I was just like, why am I standing?
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in my underwear showing people my muscles like this this isn't this doesn't feel like me you know because for some people for some bodybuilders it's such an artistic thing they are sculpting their body they are they love it they love the discipline of it but for me it was it was some sort of a means to an end some sort of way for me to be validated by society or something that that
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And it just didn't feel authentic and true to me. It just felt like I was, yeah, I was just trying to be something that I wasn't. It was just consumed by my body will be my vessel too. But if it looks a certain way, then I'll be successful and whatever. And then I started to realize that part of wrestling that I loved, it wasn't just the training, it was the performance. I loved the performance.
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The crowd, I loved... The creativity. I love the storytelling. And I think throughout my whole life, I found that storytelling is what draws me more than anything. Like in school, I was terrible at every subject except English and history because it was just stories. Like it was it was hearing stories and learning about these stories. And I rocked at those subjects, terrible at everything else.
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And so then I went back to school to study acting.
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This is in Dublin.
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Yeah, I'm kind of all over the place. But like at 22, I went back to college, studied acting in Dublin and then did a year in Chicago. And that felt like, okay, now I'm back. Now I'm back a little bit. And then it seemed more like I was part of a creative endeavor. Really?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Dusty Rhodes was the promo teacher at the time, and Dusty loved his broken toys, the ones that were rough around the edges, but he saw that had some soul or something about them.
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just just a little something just a spark and he he tried to bring that out and so i didn't know i didn't know who i wanted to be i did there everybody was like find a character find a character right character so i try out all these stupid characters none of them worked no and of course none of them were they were all awful but like they were but but it was it was the trying it was the yeah yeah it was the being able to put yourself out there and
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throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. Nothing stuck. But I tried and I kept trying and I think he valued the creativity more than the outcome. Because if somebody came in, they were the total package. I can point to, there's a wrestler called LA Knight at the time who
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right now is making big waves in wrestling but at the time he was down there we started on the same day and he had everything he had it just down he had it down you know so Dusty was smooth he was great yeah Dusty was like yeah you're great but he had no more work to do because he already had his act down whereas somebody like me was completely lost completely screwed had and I think I think there was a combination of Dusty and William Regal
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That saved my job many, many times because they saw that there was something, something there in this Irish girl that had not a clue. That had not a clue. Because I didn't look like any of these other girls that were like stunners. I wasn't great in the ring. But there was something when I talked that...
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That was unique, yeah.
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So it was like five days a week, and then we would do three shows. So you'd do Monday. Tuesday you would do a school session, which is you'd watch matches. But then there'd be extra training.
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In hindsight.
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But during it was... But I remember that. That was one of the things that Triple H would always say, you know, because he was head of developmental and he was always, enjoy this, enjoy this.
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There's never going to be... And there was times when I would feel like I was in a Rocky movie and, you know, like I'd get that like... And you could enjoy it, but the other part of it was not sleeping because you were always scared that you were going to be on the chopping block.
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Yeah, yeah. There was... We called it Black Friday. And you'd come in, you'd get pulled into the office and that was it. Your dream would be over. And, you know, I had several friends that got caught and it was devastating. And my friend Joe, the reason that I got signed in the first place, who I lived with, he got caught. And so that was a whole new world to navigate.
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But so once the fear of not being caught...
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So I think it was shortly after that, shortly after the breakdown, shortly after the breakdown of, okay, wait, I'm not a bad person.
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And then I remember coming into promo class, not doing a character, but just cutting an angry promo of, of, of, I am sick of the, I put in all of this work, I have done this, I have done that, I have done this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and, and, and, and, This is why I deserve a shot. This is why I need to be on TV. And I remember cutting that promo.
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And then like people like seeing a bit more of an edge and it wasn't just a hi. Yeah, please don't fire me. Hi, hi, hi, hi. I'm so happy to be here. Like there was there was this there was now this weird confidence in this. I wasn't so meek anymore. Like I had a chip on my shoulder and I was ready to fight. And then things started to happen there. And like, then I got on TV.
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One of the worst debuts of all time.
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Really?
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Oh my God, terrible. I came out there doing this stupid Irish jig and I can't, I can't Irish jig, but like.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, tried, tried.
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I tried to do the Irish dance, like as as hammed up as possible, like shameless, just shameless. But like at the time there was this girl, Emma, she was doing this wacky dance and it was like, OK, well, like wackiness is getting people on TV. There was there was just wacky characters left, right and center because that was the thing about the developmental system down there.
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You got the chance to be wacky and you got the chance to try things and fail. And so I failed epically. Publicly. On TV. On TV. That lives on forever. That will never be erased from history. But hey, if you can come back from that, you can come back from anything. And so the greatest part of it was like, I didn't even realize how awful it was until like a few nights later.
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And like, I remember seeing Triple H and being like, what did you think? As if he was like, oh yeah, that was amazing.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But the audience loved me. They were still, they were real positive to me. I think, come on, like I was a little idiot. Yeah. I suppose you couldn't really boo me. Like, God bless her. You know, what did she think? What was she thinking? Look at this fool. But yeah, and then I tried various different things.
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But I remember after that and then just having this different perspective and this gratitude that I was able to
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pay my bills and the food in my fridge was bought by the money that i'd made from wrestling and the roof over my head was paid for by the money that i'd made from wrestling and i was driving a car with the money that i'd made from wrestling and like i were just driving with just tears of gratitude that i could afford these things with the money that i'd made from wrestling because it it
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I've never felt like money that I've made from wrestling is real money. It just doesn't feel like real money because I'm not working.
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I'm having fun. I love what I do. I love what I do. I love it. I love it. And sometimes... And sometimes it's hard and sometimes there's so many opinions and there's, you know, like our wrestling fans, they're so vocal and they're so great. But, you know, you take the good with the bad. So sometimes you're getting lots of negative opinions on what you're doing or you're getting...
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And so where you or you think creative should be this way or you should be booked that way. And so you can get bogged down in those things when it comes to the creative process. And I'm putting together a match or I am thinking about a promo.
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i don't think there's anything bar like playing with my child that makes me feel more alive like i just i love it so much and i love just like something coming to me and building from that you know just these little seeds of ideas like what if we try this you know what if we try this maybe this will work and maybe it'll be awful but that's the greatest thing about wrestling is that
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you because we do it 52 weeks a year because we're on the road constantly you get to try and fail so often but you get to try and succeed so often too and you never know which way it's going to go but if you keep trying you know sometimes you hit gold Sometimes you don't. Sometimes you think something's gold and other people don't. But that's art, right?
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Like you do the art for what you want to do. And then whatever the audience takes out of it is up to them.
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Yeah.
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Oh, he's a huge wrestling fan.
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Yeah, yeah. And his book is... It's amazing.
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read it, listened to it.
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Yeah. And I love because I just like sometimes I just like, OK, what do I need right now?
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And then, of course, it's exactly what you need in that moment. I love it. And but it is it is that. But the other thing about wrestling, which is so different from any other artistic endeavor, like writing a book, You can take your time. If you're writing a script or whatever, maybe like a movie or a song, if you have an album.
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But say if you're writing a song, you can just take your time to do that. We ain't got time. This show is going to go live on TV at 8 p.m. And if at 7 p.m. you don't have something, you better find something because we're going to go live.
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Yeah, because now it's different. But it used to be back in the day, the show would be getting rewritten while the show was going on live in front of people. So you would have like an idea of what you're going to say. And then somebody comes up. No, no, no, no, no. You have to say this. Find a way to put this in. And so you're OK going out the curtain and changing things.
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And sometimes, and that's happened like several times, but it's really exciting.
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Yeah, because it's chaos.
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And it's chaos. And so whatever comes out is great.
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Because you can't, it's just organic.
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Yes. I love it. It's so exciting. Because you don't know what's going to happen. But something's going to happen. There's been so many times when I've had like...
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we're putting together a match but we haven't had the time and so like you're going out and you think that you have something but you're not sure and you're not sure if everybody else is on the same page but you go out there and something happens like something's gonna happen because something has to happen based on what happens they might rewrite the next thing and the next thing and it just keeps evolving huh yeah
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Because you never go out there and nothing happens. Right. Because that can't happen. Because that would be weird. People aren't just going to stand in the rain and wait to be told what to do.
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And we're just going to go because that's what has to happen. So it's such a...
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It's such an exciting, addictive business.
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It's the best.
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Gosh, I suppose there's several. Recently, I had a match with Trish Stratus. It was a cage match. And it just felt like, yeah, I'm so present. Everything that needs to happen is happening. And that was back in September. So that's like there's like these big matches that stand out because, you know, it'll often happen on live events and different things.
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But there's big moments, these big events built around it. And then a match that I had with Bianca Belair, WrestleMania 38, one of my favorite matches was. One of my favorite stories leading up to it. And I was the bad guy and I loved it. I loved it. I was having so much fun. And she was she's a great athlete and this great baby face and she can do everything.
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And I was getting to because I'd robbed the title from her, essentially, like I'd underhandedly beat her. Yeah. And I was going to be able to give her back. her championship, she would beat me for it. I wasn't handing it over, she would beat me for it. But it was that, you know, her redemption story. And that was, that was so fun to be part of.
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And then there was another match that I had in 2018 with Charlotte Flair as the last woman standing. And that one stands out because I remember it being the first match where I felt confident in it, in the moment. I can do no wrong.
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To believe in yourself. My dad said something and it's from the Bible, but he misquoted it. And it's a quote that I use in this book too. And he misquoted it, but I like his version better. And it's, if you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will complete you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will destroy you. Wow. And I love that. I love that.
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It's essentially being authentic to whatever it is inside. And the other one, the third one, I will use the most polite language that I can. Just be nice to people. Be good to one another, you know? I think that's what we need in this world more than anything. And if you want an outlet for people not being good to each other, watch wrestling.
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Watch wrestling where they're not being nice to each other. But it's agreed upon.
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It's contained and it's controlled. Because I think more than ever... Especially in a world where negativity is a hot commodity, where the algorithm loves it. It is more important where we thought that we left the bullies in the schoolyard, but we don't. They're online every day. They're constantly telling you. They're constantly chirping in their opinions.
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I think we need more than ever just to be good to one another.