10 Weird Periods WWE Icons Would Like You To Forget

3. Becky Lynch (2017)

Becky Lynch might be one of the most popular wrestlers on the planet today, but it wasn't so long ago that she was objectively the fourth most relevant member of the NXT Four Horsewomen. As Charlotte Flair and Sasha Banks were making history on RAW and Bayley was carrying NXT, Lynch was doing a whole heap of nothing on SmackDown. Yes, she was the very first SmackDown Women's Champion, but that was more about convenience than anything else. There weren't really any other options.

Besides, Lynch soon lost that title to Alexa Bliss, before spending all of 2017 (and the first half of 2018) doing bot all filling spots and treading water. The then-Lasskicker was always around, but she had been reduced to a sort of veteran presence on the blue show, haplessly watching lesser performers get opportunities that she had been denied.

As we all know, it was this period of irrelevance that eventually led to Becky Lynch becoming The Man. Without a year of purgatory, what push does Lynch have to say enough is enough? The sky is limit for Becky Lynch, but it wasn't so long ago that the glass ceiling was a very real thing.

Authored by John Bills

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.

First Posted On: 6th Nov 2020

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