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Post by Alexander The So-so on Jan 28, 2019 10:17:37 GMT -5
I'm not trying to be contrarian here. I admittedly have only been watching the main roster off-and-on for the past year or so, so maybe there's something I missed. And it's not that I necessarily have anything against her; I certainly don't think she's a bad wrestler or anything.
But why is she this popular? I know a lot of people on this board like her, but I'm also seeing people chanting her name during matches she's not involved in, and her inserting herself into the Royal Rumble last night was treated like some huge moment that everyone cheered for. But...I don't get it. What's the appeal? I've heard about her Twitter presence, for example, and people liking that, but I avoid Twitter like the plague, so I both don't know what's going on there and don't get why she's over because of it.
Explain it to me like I was a non-wrestling fan who had just started watching and has no idea what's been going on storyline wise and has only an elementary knowledge of how wrestling in general works: why is Becky Lynch so popular?
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jan 28, 2019 10:20:51 GMT -5
Good wrestler, good on the mic, charismatic, seemed to be the Horsewoman that WWE didn't like as much which gave her the underdog story, great at getting sympathy from the crowd, and very attractive.
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Post by edgestar on Jan 28, 2019 10:21:11 GMT -5
She's always had an "overness" to her. Be it, the underdog, or the new confident persona. She has a connection with the fans.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 10:22:00 GMT -5
she acts like they would want to act if they had her platform
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Post by Pgarodactyl on Jan 28, 2019 10:23:25 GMT -5
By and large, she's always been popular, but shoved to the side in favour of other competitors (Charlotte, Bliss). She was just a likeable personality who wasn't utilized to her potential.
Then SummerSlam happened. Charlotte was seemingly shoehorned into her title shot, won said match, and they tried to turn Becky heel. I believe part of her current momentum came from the resentment of the fans who didn't want to go against Becky and stubbornly stuck with it, especially since at the same time, they were trying to convince us that Charlotte - who had always been pushed at the forefront of the division almost since she was called up from NXT - was the sympathetic face. It didn't work, and people stayed with Becky and she caught straight fire.
Of course, I say this as someone romanticizing the entire saga. As a Becky supporter since her Shimmer days (2006), the fact that she's on this run now feels like a wonderous dream.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Jan 28, 2019 10:23:51 GMT -5
Because mama didn't take no mess and neither does Becky Lynch.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 10:24:18 GMT -5
She's a damn good wrestler
She may be the best promo (as far as women) they've ever had
She's a complete dork and it's not a case of her trying too hard, it's just how she naturally is
A very sweet person in real life, especially with fans
Her love of wrestling and performing in general shines through, she always comes off like a big kid having fun out there
She has a background that a lot of people can relate to with her not being the most gifted athletically, what WWE has historically looked for in women and being bullied when she was younger
And lastly her looks, she manages to be both ridiculously hot and cute
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 10:37:52 GMT -5
It's a weirdly perfect storm of the fans having enough and a person they were also into also "having enough" (and it not being booked that way, I think). She snapped at Charlotte's ever heavenly and godlike stature, the fans were MORE than ready to accept it, and the 2 were married together in this stance of having had enough with "business as usual" in the WWE. She started to heel herself up but just enough so that she wasn't a true heel but just a badass, the fans were again very happy to accept that and surprisingly the company seemed to reign in the creative cavalry and keep her at tweener status. She wins the belt, the fans love her more, she's on a roll.... And then that other person the company was shoving down the fans' throats punched her in the face. Which gave us this: If the Austin 3:16 promo had been a wordless image, it'd have been this. This spoke volumes. That was, as they say, it. If you were on the fence about her, you weren't anymore and were on her side. What happened last night was essentially what Bryan losing to Wyatt at Rumble 2014 and then coming back that night to win the Rumble would've been: HUGE. Good for Becky Lynch, goddammit.
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Post by brown bricks on Jan 28, 2019 10:42:01 GMT -5
She's a pretty good wrestler with WELL above average charisma. Her character feels real and is not some silly, gimmicky bullshit.
And yeah, that image of her with the bloody nose is one of the coolest moments in the WWE in years.
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Post by repomark on Jan 28, 2019 11:36:12 GMT -5
I always liked Becky but it was not until she developed the Austinesque attitude during her heel turn that she really resonated with me. Best thing in WWE right now by some distance
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Post by theironyuppie on Jan 28, 2019 11:39:03 GMT -5
She's a strong promo, connects with fans, is excellent at both social media (she keeps keyfabe better than most, which is great because it gives her a consistent 'voice' and also means she works on putting herself over) and working smarks (her rhetoric since her turn has expertly borrowed from smark narratives of how women's wrestling works in WWE), and was previously perceived as "held back". Despite having booking in recent months which on other wrestlers would be considered completely absurd (that John Cena segment certainly comes to mind), she still gets loved and given a pass.
I also think the Charlotte feud was a perfect storm of factors which sent her from good-but-inconsistent reactions (particularly good in smarkier towns) into super over. In Charlotte she was against someone widely perceived as 'Female Roman' but who also strongly wanted to put Becky over, she got to play a cool heel, she got booked super strong (even when she lost she got to stand tall afterwards), she got a winning streak after MITB which made her look like she was in the moral right, etc:
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Post by Mid-Carder on Jan 28, 2019 11:39:26 GMT -5
I'm not as big a fan of Becky's as a lot of people here but it feels like she's "one of us" as much as a pro wrestler can. That sort of connection with fans can take you far if WWE gets behind you.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 11:49:17 GMT -5
WWE for a long time neutered their faces. They made them these spineless sniveling idiots who got their asses kicked and backed down in the face of authority, until their inevitable heel turn or they're reduced to apathetic reactions from the crowd. Becky has had this ability to connect with the crowd, and her time on top was pretty brief, so she never got a lot of time to be reduced to nothing. She was always almost in the spotlight, but others kept taking it. When it seemed to be certain her time was coming, Charlotte was put in the match and won the title, leading to that inevitable heel turn... But this time, the fans weren't going to allow it, and this time WWE rolled with it. So finally there was a face who didn't back down, wasn't made to look like an idiot, and that simple change of pace(along with her showing the full range of her promo skills) was enough to make her the hottest star in the company.
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Post by stevec484 on Jan 28, 2019 12:04:46 GMT -5
I honestly don't think she is that great or a wrestler or that great of a promo really. But she is likeable and she has always been over no matter what the booking. It doesn't matter if we can't really explain why specifically, it just works.
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Post by cabbageboy on Jan 28, 2019 12:11:40 GMT -5
I personally enjoyed Becky when she was doing her standard face act. Definitely was for her in the whole Charlotte scenario of late. That said, I'm not really that thrilled with Stone Cold Becky or The Man. I think that gimmick will wear out its welcome if she doesn't tone it down a bit.
But yeah, it's pretty obvious. Becky is hot without being a Mandy Rose type skank, seems like a nice gal without being a total milquetoast like Bayley, etc.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jan 28, 2019 12:15:34 GMT -5
Ill keep it a complete buck While I like “The Man” character she has basically been Teflon and allowed to talk as much shit as she wants while not getting it back as strong. They’ve put her on a big pedestal But fans still buy her as the underdog thanks to Charlotte
However, in saying all that she’s been dynamite since Summerslam. Everything about her swagger, to the way she acts, and her matches have all been good. She’s been putting on banger after banger and having her tap to Asuka was the right decision
I still hold on to my belief that she vs Ronda is not enough to main event Mania BUT throwing Charlotte in there as window dressing completes the requirements for the main event. If I’m being honest, I think going on last for a 7 hour show is overrated and rather she been put on early of the main show and beat Ronda straight up.
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Post by tenshi on Jan 28, 2019 13:02:24 GMT -5
In simple terms, here's how I'll describe it: Becky Lynch was a good wrestler with a following but was either used to make others look good or pushed aside for management to push someone else to the top. Near SummerSlam, Becky builds momentum to challenge Carmella, a champion seen as unworthy by some, but then Charlotte is stuck in the match, stealing Becky's chance of fighting Carmella 1 on 1 for the title...
Then Charlotte wins the title fresh of coming back from... enhancing surgery... while Becky's efforts of climbing her way to the title match were ruined. Then, right after the match, WWE tries to portray Charlotte as sympathetic and Becky as jealous of her, even attacking Charlotte and laying her out before winning the title.
Since then, the wave of momentum behind her, the fact that she's presented as a badass instead of a goober and her rising up to the occasion has made Becky one of the most popular people on the roster regardless of gender and now she can do no wrong.
TL:DR Becky was popular and fights her way to the top, loses to management's favorite in a situation seen as unfair by fans, Becky kicks that favorite's ass and everyone loves her for it.
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Post by Prince Petty on Jan 28, 2019 13:21:21 GMT -5
I personally enjoyed Becky when she was doing her standard face act. Definitely was for her in the whole Charlotte scenario of late. That said, I'm not really that thrilled with Stone Cold Becky or The Man. I think that gimmick will wear out its welcome if she doesn't tone it down a bit. But yeah, it's pretty obvious. Becky is hot without being a Mandy Rose type skank, seems like a nice gal without being a total milquetoast like Bayley, etc. I don't watch regularly, and missed the last few weeks prior to the Royal Rumble, but it seemed to me that she has toned the act down a bit. The swagger is still there, but it's less cocky and more... confident, secure. Maybe it's just because she was in the ring with Asuka, who commands the same amount of respect, but Becky didn't seem to be sneering and jawing at her anywhere near as much as she was at Charlotte, Ronda and Nia.
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Post by Pushed to the Moon on Jan 28, 2019 13:22:55 GMT -5
I personally enjoyed Becky when she was doing her standard face act. Definitely was for her in the whole Charlotte scenario of late. That said, I'm not really that thrilled with Stone Cold Becky or The Man. I think that gimmick will wear out its welcome if she doesn't tone it down a bit. But yeah, it's pretty obvious. Becky is hot without being a Mandy Rose type skank, seems like a nice gal without being a total milquetoast like Bayley, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 13:27:47 GMT -5
Part of it is the same reason "Pipe bomb" CM Punk and "Yes Movement" Bryan got over. The product was/is so stale. That anything a little outside the box, seems like the most amazing thing ever.
If the Wwe was any good, Becky would be a 7 or 8 out of 10 character. But because the WWE has been so lame lately, she comes off as an 11.
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