WWE Public Apology Expected After Controversial Becky Lynch/Ozzy Osbourne Line (WWE News)
WWE embarrassed after Kelly Osbourne hits out over Ozzy comments.
With WWE's Becky Lynch raising quite a few eyebrows with certain comments she made on this week's Raw, it appears the market leader may make the rare move of apologising for the Man's remarks.
For those who may have missed Raw, Becky had an in-ring exchange with Nikki Bella ahead of their upcoming WWE Clash in Paris match for Lynch's Women's Intercontinental Championship. This particular Raw outing took place in Birmingham, England, and the heel Becky Lynch honed in on WWE Hall of Famer Ozzy Osbourne as a way to get heat from the locals. The legendary Ozzy - who passed away last month at the age of 76 - is one of Birmingham's most famous sons, with the rock icon forever proud of his Midlands roots.
As Lynch said on Monday, "The only good thing that came out of here died a month ago," before taking a brief pause and adding, “But in fairness to Ozzy Osbourne, he had the good sense to move to LA, a proper city, because if I lived in Birmingham, I’d die, too.”
These comments were picked up on by Ozzy's daughter Kelly, who took to her Instagram Stories to lambast both Becky Lynch and the wider WWE.
While Kelly Osbourne mistakenly tagged a Becky Lynch fan account in her IG Stories, the sentiment was certainly clear:
"You are a disgraceful dirtbag! Birmingham would not piss on you if you were on fire. #birminghamforever shame on the @wwe for allowing such things to be said about my father and his home!!!"
Speaking on the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Live, Bryan Alvarez said that, obviously, "Kelly is not happy" and that he's been told "WWE is embarrassed, and they're probably gonna do an apology". Alvarez added that WWE has "talked about doing a private apology" and there's also "discussion about doing a public apology".
As Bryan Alvarez pointed out on WOL, WWE publicly apologising for something seen on its programming is extremely, extremely rare, with one such example being back in 1996 when Vince McMahon apologised for the infamous Brian Pillman and Steve Austin segment, where Austin invaded Pillman's home, only to find the Loose Cannon had a gun. That segment ended by cutting to static as a gunshot was heard, with the insinuation that Pillman had shot Stone Cold.