Last Tuesday, Becky Lynch surpassed a year as being the WWE Raw Women’s Champion. She won the title back at WrestleMania 35 after defeating Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair.
The Man has transcended the WWE women’s division into lengths more than we could’ve imagined. She is one of the main draws in the company now, and will be for the rest of her career.
Now, she has the longest reign for a Raw Women’s Champion. How long will this reign last? We do not know. However, we know it has been a great reign for her so far with a lot of great matches.
Daily DDT takes a look and ranks Lynch’s best title defenses so far.
5.) Defeating Shayna Baszler at WrestleMania 36
The feud between Baszler and Lynch was a slow one. Baszler showed up at Monday Night Raw and decided to bite Lynch in the neck, and that is how all of this started.
Baszler would then dominate the women’s Elimination Chamber by eliminating every wrestler that was in the match, and the winner of the match would have the right to face The Man at WrestleMania.
It would seem like The Queen of Spades was destined to dethrone The Man at the show of shows.
The match itself was pretty decent at WrestleMania 36. The finish of the match was questionable at best, and it felt like the finish could’ve been done better. However, The Man still came out on top and retained.
It was refreshing to see The Man go up against someone new, and not like the usual wrestlers that we may have that she would face.
The Man was an underdog going into this match at the show of shows, but she still came out on top like she said she would.
It would be interesting to see how a second match and a continued feud would go on between the two.
For now, it seems like the feud between the two seems like it will continue for at least a little bit longer.
4.) Defeating Lacey Evans twice
The feud with Evans was an interesting feud to say the least. Evans was fresh after getting called up from NXT.
The first feud between the two was decent, however, the second feud between the two was excellent.
In the second feud with Evans, they also involved at that time, Universal Champion Seth Rollins and then Baron Corbin (Sorry, not calling him King).
Evans and Corbin were the perfect pairing. The two should be paired up in storylines again in the near future.
With the addition of Corbin, and with momentum coming from management for Corbin by pushing him, it seemed like when they made the mix-tag team match for the two titles, it was all over for The Man and The Beast Slayer.
However, that would be not the case. The one thing we did see however that we had not seen in a while was intergender wrestling, which was The Man taking Corbin’s, End of Days finishing move.
It was an interesting twist to an already an interesting storyline.
This ranks fourth ahead of Baszler because it is pretty impressive for someone to beat someone twice in a row and retain their title twice in a row.
And that is what The Man did.
3.) Defeating Natalya at SummerSlam in a submission match
Natalya and The Man’s match and feud was certainly an interesting one because it turned into a submission match. Natalya’s signature finishing move is the sharpshooter, while The Man’s is the disarmer.
This was Natalya’s shot at a championship in God knows how long, so you know she would be ready to rock and roll and throw the best she had at The Man. This match also happened in Canada, where she is from, so, just a little more fuel added to the fire for Natalya.
With all that for Natalya, you would think The Man would be in trouble for losing her title at the biggest show of the summer. However, The Man would come out on top in the end.
The Queen of Hearts put up a valiant effort, but it was just not enough to dethrone The Man that evening. There should be another feud between the two, and it should come when the Queen of Hearts has a true heel turn.
The Man escaped another huge obstacle in her early title reign with a huge win. The Man also faced someone she hasn’t really faced a lot in her career, which is refreshing to see.
In the end though, The Man was ready for the Queen of Hearts.
2.) Defeating Asuka at Royal Rumble
The Man had never beaten Asuka until the Royal Rumble. The Man wanted a redemption story after not being able to beat her.
Everything leading up to the match was excellent. It was a really good build between the two superstars. You can tell that The Man cared about this storyline a lot, and wanted her story on this whole thing with Asuka to be told.
She wanted this win because she knows her debt to Asuka would be paid in full — and it was.
The match itself was excellent. You didn’t know who would win. The fact that you could’ve described The Man as an underdog as a champion is pretty crazy. But, that just shows how dominating Asuka has been over The Man in their careers.
This will always be a match everyone would want to see again. Whether another feud is on the horizon between the two or not is not known at this time, however, we all know the feud and the match would be even better.
One thing for sure we know now is that The Man knows how to defeat Asuka.
Asuka’s famous phrase first coming into the WWE was: “No one is ready for Asuka!”
Well Asuka, one person was ready for you and will be in the future, and her name is: The Man.
1.) Defeating Sasha Banks at Hell in a Cell
This was during the height of when Banks returned after WrestleMania 35. You can certainly tell Banks was refreshed and ready to go when she came back when she started this feud with The Man.
These two have excellent chemistry together, and I would love for them to feud sometime in the future. However, The Man deserves all the credit by defeating The Boss and retaining her title. It was a grueling, but a fun match to watch, and more than likely was the best match at HIAC.
If there was anyone who were able to take the title off of The Man early in her reign, it would have been The Boss. The Boss is just too good at what she does, and she is a threat to take the title off of anyone in the women’s division at any time.
However, The Man at the time of this match was just better on that evening than The Boss. It usually a Boss that comes out on top, but it is The Man who came out on top in the end.
By defeating The Boss, The Man cemented her first huge victory in her title reign, and more huge wins came for The Man right after.