Ranking Who Was Really The Man In Wrestling Every Year 1990-2020
3. 2018 - Becky Lynch
Fate conspired to bloody Becky Lynch's face in November 2018 to illustrate her total defiance of a machine she would both defeat and transcend.
Well, it was the errant punch of a total oaf, but it was poetic as all hell, regardless: Becky Lynch, a female performer WWE had barely pushed, connected with crowds who saw through a terrible story and into the cocksure face of its real hero. She connected big, too. She wasn't just the hero of that story, or the top star in her division. As she marketed herself so astutely, she transcended gender roles to emerge, drenched in confidence, as the Man.
The talk was massive, exhilaratingly so, but it was substantiated with a classic performance at Evolution, a string of ferocious promos, and a cancelled Survivor Series exhibition mourned so deeply that it became (ostensibly) the WrestleMania main event.