Becky Lynch
Irish professional wrestler and actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Rebecca Quin (born 30 January 1987) is an Irish professional wrestler, better known by her current ring name Becky Lynch. She is signed to WWE, where she competes on their Raw brand. She is an eleven-time champion in the company and became the first woman to hold the Raw and SmackDown Women's Champonships at the same time. Before joining WWE, she was also known by the ring name Rebecca Knox.
Quin is previously known for her work in France-based professional wrestling promotion Queens of Chaos, where she is a former one-time World Queens of Chaos Champion which she won in 2006. She has also wrestled for England's One Pro Wrestling, Germany's German Stampede Wrestling, and Canada's SuperGirls Wrestling promotion (an offshoot of Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling). In 2006, she wrestled for the Shimmer Women Athletes promotion, and was involved in a matches with Daizee Haze, which also included an well known two out of three falls match.
Remove ads
WWE
NXT (2013–2015)
On 8 April 2013, it was reported that Quin had signed a two-year developmental contract with the WWE and moved to Florida to start at their developmental territory WWE NXT.[2]
On 29 August, 2013, it was announced that her new ring name would be Becky Lynch.[3] Lynch made her televised debut on the June 26, 2014 episode of NXT and defeated Summer Rae.[4]
On the July 3 episode of NXT, she teamed with Bayley in an losing effort to the BFFs (Charlotte and Sasha Banks) in a tag team match.[5] Lynch would spend the next few months in non-title matches against Charlotte, where she lost three matches against her in a row.[6][7][8] On the 23 October episode of NXT, Lynch would turn heel and would align with Sasha Banks by attacking Bayley.[9]
Remove ads
In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Bexploder / Bex-plex (Exploder suplex)
- Hard Knox (Leg hook sitout suplex slam)
- Signature moves
- Double springboard leg drop
- Hurricanrana
- Springboard dropkick
- Managers
- Scotty Mac
- Nicknames
- "K-Nox"
- "The Man"
- "Big Time Becks"
- "Becky Two-Belts"
Championships
- CBS Sports
- Best Moment of the Year (2018) – Attacking Ronda Rousey on Raw[10]
- Wrestler of the Year (2018)[10]
- WWE Match of the Year (2018) vs. Asuka and Charlotte Flair at TLC[10]
- New York Post
- Female Wrestler of the Year (2023)[11]
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- Queens of Chaos
- World Queens of Chaos Championship (1 time)[15]
- Sports Illustrated
- Ranked No. 10 of the top 10 wrestlers of 2023[16]
- Women's Wrestler of the Year (2018, 2019)[17][18]
- SuperGirls Wrestling
- SuperGirls Championship (1 time)[19]
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- Worst Feud of the Year (2015) Team PCB vs. Team B.A.D. vs. Team Bella[20]
- Women's Wrestling MVP (2018, 2019)[21][22][23]
- WWE
- WWE Raw Women's Championship (2 times)[24]
- WWE SmackDown Women's Championship/Women's World Championship[a] (5 times, first)[25]
- WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship (1 time, current)
- NXT Women's Championship (1 time)
- WWE Women's Tag Team Championship (2 time) – with Lita[26] (1), and Lyra Valkyria (1)
- Women's Royal Rumble (2019)[27]
- Sixth Women's Triple Crown Champion
- Sixth Women's Grand Slam Champion
- WWE Year-End Awards (3 times)
- Female Superstar of the Year (2018, 2019)[28][29]
- Match of the Year (2018) vs. Charlotte Flair at Evolution[28]
Footnotes
References
Other websites
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads