Almost ten years ago, Irish-born diva Becky Lynch was known as Rebecca Knox and was without a doubt one of the most captivating in-ring performers in the world. However, due to a grievous 2006 injury that damaged her eighth cranial nerve, she didn't return to in-ring wrestling action until five years later in 2011. Signed to WWE in 2013, she's finally back in shape enough to be a player in a major professional wrestling organization one year later. A wackier babyface than Emma who has the potential to be as gifted of an in-ring performer as Charlotte or Natalya, she's a jack of many trades and possibly a master of a few of them. She's already wrestled Nattie in Japan, her NXT trainer Sara del Ray in Shimmer, and in many of the same rings as Paige. What will ultimately separate Becky Lynch from others is that she's competent enough in working a gimmick or working a "main event style" to be someone like say, Victoria once was in WWE. From a brain injury to a decade-long career? It's possible, and that's amazing. Expect show stealing moments to come for certain.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
