10 Wrestlers Who Still Believe In Kayfabe

9. Becky Lynch

One of the reasons Becky Lynch got over as well as she did as ‘The Man’ was she wholeheartedly believed she was ‘The Man’, sticking to the gimmick when away from the ring and expertly riling up people on social media, with her Tweets often going viral. After SmackDown commentator Corey Graves spoke of how Becky was getting too cocky on social media, Becky took to Twitter to sharply reply to him:

‘So Graves has been saying I’m too cocky, and I talk too much on social media - like that’s a bad thing. I drum up more interest in 1 tweet than you do with 5 hours of your Heenan-lite routine every week. Listen, I’m here to make history, you’re just here to observe me do it.’

It’s Tweets like this one when she was breaking out as a headliner that confirmed she wasn’t playing the gimmick, she was living it.

Becky committed heavily into ‘The Man’ post-Money In The Bank 2018 after her previous steampunk and ‘Lass Kicker’ roles didn’t connect with crowds the way she dreamed they would. It was her feud with Charlotte where Becky went into another gear and swiftly became the face of the company. Steve Austin heaped much praise on her for raising the bar with her anti-authority persona and having the same swagger/cockiness Conor McGregor used to become the biggest box office attraction in sport. Her feud with Ronda Rousey being tremendous because it blurred the lines of whether the two hated one another in real life too.