Wrestlemania 35 Thread * Spoilers* (*No Betting Talk*)

Lord TSC wrote: »

I had been tempted to add a "No Betting Talk" addition to the OP and thread title. Might just go ahead and do it.

PTH2009 wrote: »

unusual thought it would be Black/Ricochet vs Revival

sky88 wrote: »

34/35 demolition got me as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fz-mM2uvwg

• She talks about the moment Vince told her she was main eventing WM. She was driving from Buffalo to Boston, which was a 7 hour drive, and Vince called her personally to tell her she’d be main eventing, to which she replied ‘Thanks Vinnie, I bet you’re glad you didn’t keep me suspended now’. Becky says she shed a few tears of joy but then focused on what this match means and how important it is.

• Ariel asks her whether she was worried that her match wouldn’t main event WrestleMania, to which she says yes. She says that the momentum of the feud dipped slightly due to the build. She goes on to say that Kofi/Bryan was gaining a ton of momentum and Brock/Seth was happening and she saw people calling those matches the main event which scared her because she wants this so bad. So she resorted to going on social media and cutting promos outside arenas in order to get that main event slot.

• Ariel brings up how Becky is the first non-North America to main event WM since Andre the Giant, who ironically main evented WM 32 years ago – the year Becky was born. He asks Becky what her first WM memory is and she says because her family was poor growing up, she never really was able to watch WM. She watched the Royal Rumble because it sometimes aired on channels that she had, but not WM until she was a teenager. She remembers seeing Owen vs Bret at WM10 and something just clicked for her. That’s her favourite WM match ever.

• Becky talks about how her brother got her into wrestling and that she just flew in for WM. Becky’s brother was a wrestler too, and he found out Finn Balor was opening a school an hour away from where they lived. She laughs about how her brother took the train to Finn’s school, but she got their dad to drive her there by car, so she arrived 20 minutes earlier. Becky says her brother was way better than her when they started, and she wasn’t good at all, but she loved it. He was teaching classes within 9 months and helped her a lot. Ariel asks about Becky failing PE in school and she says she was a chubby kid when she was younger, and she got made fun of because of that. Due to that, she didn’t like running and she wouldn’t do anything in PE.

• When she was 17, she said to her brother that she thinks she can do this, and her brother has always supported her. She went to Canada because of a wrestler called Scotty Mac, who said that the wrestling scene in Canada was great. Becky had a cousin in Vancouver there who she hadn’t seen in a while, and it was easier to get a visa for Canada than it was for America. She got $30 for her first match in Canada, which was the most she’d ever been paid a lot. That wasn’t enough to scrape by so she had to sleep on people’s floors and get numerous jobs when she was 18.

• Becky says she always wanted the women to be taken seriously. When she was about 18, she just wanted to wrestle in Japan, and she remembers another girl saying ‘WWE don’t want people like us’.

• She left the wrestling business for 7 years when she was 19 because she was frustrated, her VISA ran out, her mother didn’t want her to wrestle and she was sleeping on floors. Everything got on top of her, but she was obsessed with wrestling and letting it go made her fall into bouts of depression. She always wrote in her journal that she needed to get back into wrestling. She also suffered a serious head injury, but it was the depression of being lost and not having any guidance that was the reason she left. Becky went to guidance counsellors constantly and had some really dark times – her confidence was at an all time low and she felt lost.

• Becky says even when she got to NXT, she had little confidence. When training at the Performance Center, she kept messing up because she kept getting into her own head. She knew she was close to being fired but there were a few people who always believed in her, one of those being Dusty Rhodes. Becky says that Dusty likes broken toys, and she was a broken toy. She talks about how Dusty’s last tweet was about her being a top star. That tweet sticks with her because at the time, no one would’ve thought it but the fact that he outright said it in his last tweet was amazing. His last words to her were ‘Shut up Becky’ because she was mouthing at him and she stood there laughing. She jokes to Dusty that she will never shut up and says that she’ll be thinking about Dusty this Sunday.

• When Becky was lost, she was in Orlando and she called her mother and begged her to let her come home. Becky’s mother refused and said that she needed to see this through because she’d given up everything and she wasn’t going to let her give everything up.

• When Becky was around 13/14/15, she was heavily drinking, and smoking weed. There were some tough family problems that made it hard for her, so drinking helped her escape all of that.

• She remembers sitting with Finn in Dublin and saying she wants to get back into wrestling. And he told her to get back into it because he didn’t want to be sitting with her 10 years later for her to be saying the same thing. She didn’t return right then and there but she landed a role on The Vikings as a stuntwoman. She hadn’t been a stuntwoman before, so she decided to practice in the ring to prepare herself, where a trainer said that she still had it and needed to go for a tryout.

• She called Robbie Brookside, who remembered her from a match she had with Paige’s mother, Saraya Knight. Robbie remembered her and wondered what had happened to her, but he helped her get a tryout.

• At the beginning of 2018, Becky came back from doing the Marine, where HBK told her to come back to wrestling with a different energy. She talks about MITB 2018 where the crowd went crazy for her every time, she climbed the ladder, which made management realise how strong her relationship with the crowd was. Despite her position, she always had a good relationship with the fans. She then went on a winning streak and won the right to have a singles match at Summerslam until Charlotte swooped in, which got people angry, so she realised that other people saw it too.

• Ariel asks her whether she’d be in the main event if it wasn’t her Nia Jax breaking her face. Becky says she thinks she would have. Initially, WWE was obviously going for the ‘corporate main event’ of Charlotte vs Ronda, but she felt like that was a fight with no substance. There needed to be some salt behind it and that’s what she brought. She brought soul and heart and that’s what people could relate to.

• Ariel asks how Becky honestly feels when Ronda saying that wrestling is fake. Becky thinks it’s completely disrespectful. She says no champion should say that. She says it’s ridiculous how Ronda 4 months into her career was crying about how hard the schedule was in a YouTube video despite being handed everything. She got all the press opportunities, yet she cries in her kitchen that her part-time schedule is hard because she can’t make breakfast for her husband. Everyone else works 52 weeks a year and loves it and they do it with the dream of main-eventing WM one day. Ronda was handed that right and still disrespects the business.

• He asks if WM will be Ronda’s last match and she says absolutely. Ronda can’t handle losing, we’ve seen it before, and we’ll see it again at WrestleMania.