Becky Lynch On WWE Survivor Series: "Brand Supremacy Is Outdated"

Becky Lynch thinks that WWE Survivor Series' long-running Raw vs. SmackDown theme is "a little outdated."

The reigning Raw Women's Champion said as much in a recent interview with Vincent Beltran, during which she said that it would be beneficial for WWE to introduce additional stakes beyond the brand supremacy concept (h/t Wrestling Inc.):-

“Yeah, that would be helpful. I don’t know if — yeah, the old brand supremacy is a little outdated, I don’t know. At the same time, we’re all competitors. So, you always want to be the best. Whatever it is, whatever carrot they dangle. You always want to be the best, whether it’s the winner gets a frickin’ banana. It’s like, ‘Well, I want that frickin’ banana. I wanna prove that I deserve that banana.’ You always want to be the best. Whatever the logic is, you can make it work when you are a competitive human, which we all are. You don’t get to WWE if you’re not competitive.”

WWE has leaned heavily on brand supremacy at Survivor Series since reinstating the Raw/SmackDown split in 2016, advertising the pay-per-view as a rare opportunity to watch wrestlers from different shows collide in the ring. This has lost meaning in recent years, however, particularly as the event now takes place so close to the WWE Draft, meaning wrestlers have barely arrived on the new homes they are asked to proudly represent at the pay-per-view.

This year's Survivor Series attracted particularly strong criticism when the first batch of teams announced for it were 70% comprised of wrestlers who'd been on their shows for less than a fortnight.

Lynch will wrestle her SmackDown counterpart, Charlotte Flair, on the 21 November pay-per-view.