Becky Lynch is one of the toughest in the game—but when it comes to her daughter, the crowd’s heat hits different.
On a new episode of Something’s Burning, Becky opened up about a painful moment during WWE’s Money in the Bank when her daughter Roux experienced the dark side of wrestling for the first time. The former multi-time champion explained that Roux had been excited to see her mom wrestle live—until the crowd turned on her.
“She was very upset,” Becky recalled. “She like went to sit in the front row—first time she’d ever watched the show. She’d been starting to get into wrestling music, less so like the actual wrestling part. So, she was sitting in the front row. She had watched the women’s ladder match. She had loved it. And then I came out and now I’m the heel and the bad guy.”
Things went downhill fast when the chants started.
“She was okay with me being mean. She was okay with me getting beat up. But when the crowd started chanting, ‘Becky sucks,’ she could not take it. She was like, ‘My mama doesn’t suck. Why are they saying mama sucks?’ And then she just bursts into tears and had to come back.”
Becky tried to explain the nature of the business—how heels are meant to get that kind of reaction. But Roux wasn’t buying it.
“I was trying to explain it to her—that that’s me. I’m doing my job. Like it means that I’m good at my job. Like I want them to say ‘Becky sucks.’ But she was like, ‘But you don’t suck!’ She still doesn’t get it. Every now and again she’ll ask, ‘Why were they saying mama sucks?’”
Seth Rollins, who joined Becky on the show, said the timing of it all made it even more emotional.
“She was like, ‘Why were they saying mama sucks?’ She even—like, we watched her on Monday a couple weeks ago, she was wrestling, and she was like, ‘Did they like mama?’ I’m like, ‘No, no, baby, they—they gotta boo her. That’s Mama’s doing her job.’”
Becky Lynch may have mastered the art of getting heat from a crowd, but there’s no script that prepares you for seeing your own child cry because of it. It’s a raw, real reminder that wrestling may be scripted—but the emotions behind it are anything but.
What do you think about Becky Lynch’s story? Would you be able to separate wrestling kayfabe from real life if your kid were in the crowd? Drop your thoughts in the comments below.
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