10 Iconic Wrestling Images That Show History Repeating

9. Becky Lynch Becomes The Man

Eric Bischoff Chris Jericho
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The (real, not WWE) universe offered several bizarrely prescient links between the 2018 rise of Becky Lynch and 1996/97 ascendency of Stone Cold Steve Austin, but they were all ultimately rooted in the hopes of the fanbase more than anything intended by the booking.

There was a loud longing from audiences that the company please not screw this one up, pointing to how well it worked the last time to convince the company to follow the same course.

Did they direct Nia Jax to break Becky's face? Of course not, but what a wonderful bit of happenstance it was. 'The Man' had her wings unfairly clipped, but spread them wider than ever before the confirmation with a blood-soaked pose that confirmed her as the top star in the entire industry. Mirroring two Austin flashbacks in one moment (Austin's broken neck at SummerSlam and dramatic blood loss at WrestleMania) this was Lynch taking the complimentary comparisons and making them all her own.

 
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