Becky Lynch on Her Current WWE Contract Being Her Last in Wrestling, Her Goal of Wanting To Leave Wrestling Business In Better Place, Lack of Women’s Main Events in WWE in Recent Years, Triple H Made Sure She Still Got Paid During Her Hiatus, Working with MJF on Set of Happy Gilmore 2, & More

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured Becky Lynch as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Lynch’s thoughts about her current contract with WWE likely might be her last one in her wrestling career.

“I mean, I didn’t say it with such assuredness as you did, right? I said it’s probably my last one. I think I said this is likely my last one. That’s not a sure [thing], but, yeah, no, it might be, could be.”

Lynch also gave her thoughts about what makes her feel that way about her current contract and wrestling career future.

“I don’t know, it could be longer, but you never want to outstay your welcome. Although, I’m in my prime, I can go, plenty left in the tank. But I also have my daughter at home, and maybe I’ll want another one, and at some point, you have to just be happy with what you’ve done. But again, the love of what I do, that’s not going anywhere, but there’s a lot that goes in, around it and behind it. I suppose you never want to just leave spinning your wheels. You always want to move up. But again, that’s also not true, because sometimes I just go, what do I want to do? What would I think is fun? Maybe nobody else will, but this is what I want to do, and this is what I’m happy doing.”

Lynch also gave her thoughts about her goal for her wrestling career is to leave the wrestling business in a better place than when she came into it.

“I just want to tell good stories. I want to have good matches. I want to make sure the business is better when I leave it than how I found it.” 

Lynch also gave her thoughts about the lack of women’s main events in WWE in recent years and how only three or four men have consistently occupied that main event spotlight in the company.

“I know that what I have done is prove that women could be the biggest stars in this company, and they are and can be. I think sometimes we need to fight to make sure we’re positioned as such, because you can be a huge name, but if you’re not positioned in the main event. It’s very easy when we condition the audience, ‘This person’s the main event, this person’s the main event, this person’s the main event,’ we see them as the main event. When we don’t condition the audience, then it becomes a little bit harder.

And for the last few years, I think we’ve, for the most part, those main events have gone to two, maybe three, four dudes constantly. I think we need to change that again. I think we need to. I don’t know what that means, whether that means fighting a bit more, whether it’s me or somebody else.”

Lynch also gave her thoughts about her reason for her hiatus from WWE from May of 2024 to April of 2025 and how WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque made sure she still got paid during her hiatus.

“I told Hunter, I said, ‘Look, I’m stepping away. I’m not going anywhere else, but I just need some time.’ And he was great about it. He was like, ‘Hey, okay, all right, look, but let’s just extend your contract so you can at least get paid.’ Which was just so nice of him.

So I was like, ‘I’m not going anywhere. I promise, pinky promise.’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, but you might as well get paid while you’re doing it.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, all right.’ So that was very nice. And I thought it would be like three months. It ended up being a little bit longer than three months. 10 months, I think it ended up being.”

In a separate recent interview with Vulture’s Good One podcast, Lynch also gave her thoughts about how WWE officials had wanted to change the plan for her WWE RAW Women’s Championship match against Bianca Belair at WrestleMania 38.

“When I took that title from her, and I know how upset she was because she thought, ‘They don’t believe in me anymore. They think I’m doing a bad job and I get squashed in this way,’ but she was so gracious. She could’ve been like, ‘This bitch is coming in, taking my spot. She’s been gone. I’ve been here putting in the hard work. Now I just have to roll over for her?’ I always wanted to pay it back to her in the biggest way possible. The fact that we were able to get there, and we had to fight. At one point, they wanted to put somebody else into the match and make it a triple threat. I was like, ‘That’s not the story.’ That was going to be my hill that I died on. I was ready to really fight. Thankfully, they changed it. It needed to go back to Bianca. If it had gone to the triple threat, they would’ve kept it on me. The story needed for Bianca to win and take that victory. It felt like a happy and perfect ending.”

Lynch also gave her thoughts about her time working with AEW talent MJF on the set of the Happy Gilmore 2 comedy film.

“I think he’s so great. I love him. And honestly, I’ll be honest, I thought he’d be an a–h— like his character. He’s so good at his character that I was like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna hate this guy.’ And he’s just the sweetest boy. He’s so nice and he was so great and he was such a great conversation. It was such a great chat and we bonded instantly and I love him.

You know I totally bought the act, and now I’m killing the act, so sorry. But no, I think he’s great and he’s wonderful and he was so great in the movie. He’s fantastic. He’s just a fantastic little speaker and actor and he’s also so young still. So I’m so very excited to see where his career goes.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com 1, 2, & 3, Fightful.com 1 & 2