WWE: Becky Lynch Shows Why She’s The Top Star After Iconic Segment
By Bryan Heaton
Becky Lynch literally bled for her cause this week when she invaded Raw to take out Ronda Rousey and the superstars of Team Red. But the SmackDown Women’s Champion is undeniably the alpha of the entire WWE women’s division.
It’s not often that the aftermath of an episode of WWE Raw is so heavily focused on a superstar from the SmackDown roster. But Becky Lynch isn’t just any superstar, is she?
Much of the focus on the Nov. 12 episode of Raw was directed on the Survivor Series matchup pitting WWE’s two women’s champions against one another. Raw Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey did much of the talking throughout the night, but it was SmackDown Women’s Champion Lynch who had the last word.
Sure, Rousey took down Baron Corbin with a judo hip toss in the night’s opening segment. And later in the show, Rousey responded to Lynch’s comments from a week ago with a disaster of a promo. But all it took was one segment to close the show for Lynch to not only put Rousey in her place, but to clearly establish herself as the dominant force in WWE.
As Alexa Bliss was naming her team for the 5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match, video from the backstage area caught Becky Lynch decimating Ronda Rousey with the Dis-Arm-Her. For the first time in her short WWE career, Rousey looked weak and in trouble, as Lynch wrenched the UFC Hall of Famer’s left arm out of whack.
But the best was yet to come for Lynch, as she made her way to the ring. As is now customary in the build to Survivor Series, members of the SmackDown roster showed up on Raw to attack their competition. This year, it was Becky leading the SmackDown women’s roster into battle.
Early in the skirmish, Lynch caught a wayward elbow to the face from Nia Jax. A mere mortal would have been stopped by such a shot, but Becky Lynch is no mere mortal. Instead, it seemed to fire Becky up even more, as she continued to lead the troops in a calculated effort to put a hurting on the Raw roster.
The visual of a bloodied Becky fighting like her life depended on it seemed to fire up the already pro-Lass Kicker crowd even more. At the 1:35 mark of the above video, you can clearly see Lynch wiping blood off her face and flinging it off, like if it was water from a swimming pool in her eyes.
And still, Becky wasn’t finished. A clearly wounded Rousey hit the ring to try and even the odds, but she was quickly felled by a steel chair — courtesy of The Man herself, Becky Lynch. Raw went off the air with a beaten, battered, bloody Becky standing tall over the self-proclaimed Baddest Woman on the Planet.
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Over the past several weeks, Becky Lynch has been on (straight) fire in WWE. Her victory over Charlotte Flair to win the SmackDown’s Women’s Championship was a long time coming. Becky and Charlotte had the unquestioned match of the night at Evolution, as their Last Woman Standing Match was one of the best WWE bouts of the entire year.
On the mic, Lynch has no equal. This may be a hot take, but I’ll say at this moment in time, Becky is more consistent with high quality promos than even Paul Heyman. But to come out on enemy soil, and utterly demolish Ronda Rousey like she did in the final segment of Raw — and to be the most popular superstar in the building on a show she doesn’t even compete on — is a clear sign that there is no lie when Becky Lynch calls herself “The Man.”
I have no idea what will happen at Survivor Series, but after Raw, Becky Lynch has proven herself as deserving of being the top star in WWE. Not the top woman star, but the top star. She’s got the popularity, she’s got the charisma, she’s got the toughness, and she’s got the believability.
Maybe the shot of a blood-stained Lass Kicker will become her Austin 3:16-type moment. Maybe now everyone who’s been sleeping on Lynch will come around and start paying attention. Because if you can utterly destroy a legit fighter like Ronda Rousey, you deserve to be the main attraction.