11 Things We Learned From Becky Lynch On Talk Is Jericho

8. Quitting Wrestling

Jericho doubles back to something Becky said earlier in the interview when she mentioned that she had previously quit wrestling, and he asks her about that. She reveals that she had quit the business for seven years and really only considers herself having been a wrestler for two. Becky talks about growing up in Ireland as a wrestling fan, but that the idea of her going on to become one was as unrealistic as getting to go to Mars. She joined Finn Balor's wrestling school - which didn't even have a ring - and spent months training on mats on the floor. From there she would go over to England to train at the summer camps, in stuffy buildings with no air conditioning where they'd work out until 4:00 AM and sleep on the floor. She calls it a great experience, but says she figured she'd wind up as a lawyer, and her mother hated her wrestling. Becky eventually enrolled in college, but soon dropped out and moved to Canada to work on the independent scene in Vancouver, where she worked in the same promotion Jericho did when he was getting his start. From there she did a tour of Japan where she continued to gain experience working in tags, and at the time current NXT trainer Sara Del Ray was working there as well. Lynch got hurt at a show in Germany and her mother freaked out, and at nineteen years old she says she was lost and confused about what she was supposed to do with the rest of her life. In her final match before her temporary retirement she faced Paige's mother. From there she moved to Orlando to become a personal trainer - since that was the location of TNA at the time, thinking it could be a plan B if training didn't work out - where she felt lost again knowing no one in a horrible apartment with no money.