Becky Lynch's Top 5 Moments In WWE

From the time she first stepped into a WWE-owned ring at an NXT house show in November 2013, few would've ever guessed that one day, the woman once known as indy standout Rebecca Knox would draw international headlines upon her vacating of one of WWE's Women's titles after a 400-day reign, due to pregnancy. This is not to diminish any of her various positive attributes, but it speaks volumes to the outsized name that she's made for herself.

With a year-and-a-half spent in WWE developmental, and close to five years on the main roster, Becky Lynch has built quite the impressive wrestling legacy, becoming one of the biggest stars (if not the absolute biggest star) on the overall WWE roster, regardless of gender, for a sizeable amount of time.

With "The Man" taking time away to build her family, now's as good a time as any to look back at what she's accomplished during her WWE career to this point. And here's to her adding onto this list on some distant day.

From the time she first stepped into a WWE-owned ring at an NXT house show in November 2013, few would've ever guessed that one day, the woman once known as indy standout Rebecca Knox would draw international headlines upon her vacating of one of WWE's Women's titles after a 400-day reign, due to pregnancy. This is not to diminish any of her various positive attributes, but it speaks volumes to the outsized name that she's made for herself.

With a year-and-a-half spent in WWE developmental, and close to five years on the main roster, Becky Lynch has built quite the impressive wrestling legacy, becoming one of the biggest stars (if not the absolute biggest star) on the overall WWE roster, regardless of gender, for a sizeable amount of time.

With "The Man" taking time away to build her family, now's as good a time as any to look back at what she's accomplished during her WWE career to this point. And here's to her adding onto this list on some distant day.

5. Becoming The First SmackDown Women's Champion

At the dawn of the Women's Revolution, Lynch seemed to take a backseat to contemporaries like Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, Paige, and others. The 2016 brand split allowed for Lynch to get a little bit of breathing room on SmackDown, which paid immediate dividends.

More than a year into her main roster run, Lynch finally captured WWE gold by becoming the first-ever SmackDown Women's champion by winning a six-pack challenge at that year's Backlash. In all, she reigned with the belt for just under three months.

4. Becoming The Man

Despite her obvious popularity, WWE didn't seem content to roll with Lynch as much more than the number two or three babyface on the women's side of the roster. In fact, WWE attempted a heel turn for Lynch at SummerSlam 2018, rooted in bitterness toward Charlotte Flair.

Instead of booing her, fans openly sided with Lynch, who used the turn to unleash a new side of herself. No longer smiling beneath steampunk smokestacks, Lynch became a "Made Man" through cutting social media retorts, and a biting new attitude that turned many heads.

3. Winning The 2019 Women's Royal Rumble

Finlay probably never received a bigger roar than the one he earned for gesturing toward the ring, as if to say to a ready and willing Lynch, "Have at it". Call it "Irish bias" if you must, but maybe, just maybe, the double-tough Finlay had finally met his match?

From there, Lynch winning the 2019 Rumble match (as a substitute for the injured Lana) was a mere formality - the vast crowd in Phoenix, even the cynics, could connect the dots. With rumours that the women's title match would headline Mania, Lynch had to be there.

2. Becoming The First Woman To Win A WrestleMania Main Event

While some felt the match pitting Lynch against Flair and Ronda Rousey for both Women's singles titles didn't quite achieve technical greatness (and/or that it was muddied by not being Lynch vs. Rousey one on one), the moment was still a landmark one.

Lynch scored a bit of a wonky pin on Rousey to not only send her arch-nemesis packing, but to win both belts in the WrestleMania finale. A moment once reserved for the Hogans and the Savages and the Austins and the Cenas added Becky Lynch to its lifetime collection.

1. Reigning As Raw Women's Champion For 400 Days

With that monumental WrestleMania win came a monster reign. From that night through the Monday after the 2020 Money in the Bank, Lynch held onto the Raw Women's title, going over on everyone from Lacey Evans to Sasha Banks, from Asuka to Shayna Baszler.

As the biggest star in the entire Women's scene, Lynch was afforded the opportunity to clean out the division. Had it not been for this bout of maternity leave, who's to say how much longer her record-setting reign as champion would have gone?