Becky Lynch became one of the first three women to headline a WrestleMania at the WrestleMania 35 main event in 2019. Since that historic moment, only two additional women have gone on to compete in the closing match. That makes a total of five women across seven years, and with WrestleMania now spanning two nights, there’s increasingly little reason not to feature women in a main event spot every year.
Lynch spoke with Chris VanVliet ahead of WrestleMania this weekend. She would like the women to get back to the main event and feels the crowd will need to be condition to want this to happen.
“I just want to tell good stories, have good matches. Want to make sure that the business is better when I leave it than how I found it. 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 will be challenging AJ Lee for the WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship this Saturday.