WWE Superstar Becky Lynch Documents Her Rise From “Average” To A-List In New Autobiography
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Everybody wants to be something in life, and it takes time to recognize exactly what that is; sometimes it ends up bigger than they could ever imagine, or exactly what they set out to become. WWE superstar Becky Lynch, real name Rebecca Quin, described her younger self as “absurdly average,” but her late father Ken urged her to write a book when she was just five years old and life was nothing more than “eating sweets and playing with Polly Pockets.” Fast forward to today; she is now one of the top superstars in the WWE and has officially released her debut novel, Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl.
The autobiography covers her early years, discovering when she fell in love with wrestling, her time in the developmental brand NXT, behind-the-scenes stories of interactions with her peers, meeting her husband, WWE superstar Seth Rollins, becoming a mother to their beautiful daughter, Roux, and so much more. This book has been years in the making, both literally and figuratively. The idea became a reality after she made history as the first woman to main event a Wrestlemania, winning both the Raw and Smackdown Women’s Championships at Wrestlemania 35 in 2019.
“After WrestleMania 35, I got offered a book deal,” she exclusively told VIBE. “And so then it was like, ‘All right, well, here we go. This is what I’ve always wanted to do. Now it’s in my lap.’ And then it took a long time before I even got around to sitting down and writing because we were so busy at the time. Of course, this was before I had a child, so I didn’t realize that I actually wasn’t that busy. Now I know what ‘busyness’ is about. And so it’s been a process.”
Becky Lynch enrolled in a yearlong book writing course and consulted the help of her childhood hero, WWE Hall Of Famer Mick Foley. She learned the proper ways to tell her story and handled it similarly to how she approaches being a WWE superstar: wanting to be the absolute best.
“I almost rewrote the entire book in about five weeks while I was also on multiple shows,” the 37-year-old wrestler admitted. “I was the NXT Women’s Champion at that time and so a lot of this book got written on airplanes and in hotel rooms.” Lynch admitted that it wasn’t an easy process, especially whenever she had to cover topics involving her late father who died in 2021.
“Anytime I talk about my dad or think about my dad or read that section or write that section, I just become a blubbering mess,” she said. “It’s still very, very raw and hard to talk about, hard to write about, hard to read about, and especially because I have a lot of guilt and a lot of remorse over just not even being there for when my dad passed away, but feeling like I wish I’d gotten to talk to him more.”
Many WWE superstars have been open about things they have had to sacrifice and how difficult they are to cope with, but they have paid off for Becky Lynch. She is a seven-time Women’s Champion, one-time Women’s Tag Team Champion, Royal Rumble winner, two-time Female Superstar Of The Year, and gearing up to challenge Rhea Ripley for the Women’s World Championship at Wrestlemania XL.
While she has had title matches at Wrestlemania before, she described the alignment with her book and her current perception within the WWE as “poetic.” Even with all that she has contributed to the industry, people still try to sleep on her.
“Somehow in all of this, despite what I have done in the industry, despite being the backbone of the women’s division for the last year, being a catalyst for change, somehow I am still overlooked and looked at as the underdog,” she asserted.
“And this is where I thrive, is [when] people doubt me, [when] people don’t think I can do it,” she continued. “And it’s proving people wrong. I said it in the promo the other day: I’m good when people believe in me, but when people doubt me, I’m great.”
Rhea Ripley has dominated the women’s division for a year and believes that Becky knows she can’t keep up with her in the ring deep down. Despite their tense feud, Lynch still had some nice things to say about her. “She’s got a natural presence about her,” she said of her Wrestlemania opponent. “She has a natural ability in the ring and she’s jacked out of her mind.”
However, she also had smoke for the Women’s World Champion who has often acted like she is above the women’s division. “At the end of the day, she spends more time posting on Instagram and hovering around the lads in the Judgment Day than she spends fighting in the ring,” she said. “And well, I’m just the opposite of that. I am about the work and I get the work done, and I’ve changed the game time and time again, so she can be this natural superstar that’s pushed to the moon and I can be the one that’s always on the back burner. But we’ve seen how that’s worked out in the past.” Spicy.
Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl is available to purchase now. Check out Becky Lynch’s upcoming Women’s World Championship match against Rhea Ripley at Wrestlemania XL on Saturday, April 6 and Sunday, April 7 live on Peacock.
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