Becky Lynch irked by Jon Jones comments

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Wrestlers have such an inferiority complex when it comes to combat sports....
To be fair, MMA seems to be obsessed with them too. Boxers and boxing has its own lane and is treated in much higher regard for good reason but yeah. I feel like yes UFC is more legit but to Lynch’s point, these play fighters get put through way more for as much if not more success. Most people can name maybe five UFC fighters while with wrestling I bet money you would hear way more names from past and present. I think ufc and especially their fans have an inferiority complex as do wrestling fans but UFC fans like to point at wwe and be like “c’mon man, we better than that shyt”. That Stephen A Smith backlash was very telling
 

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It's more issue with past their prime MMA fighters who look at WWE like it's a retirement home. The company is going to kiss their ass because they think that their prior drawing status is going to translate, but in most cases it doesn't.

There is this insecurity because of how Pro wrestling is looked down upon either by fans or fighters. I can see where the hostility comes from.
 
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Just read the comments from both, Jon Jones is a high level competitive athlete and very successful in his field. He would have instant name value and credibility, something he's earned by the way. There's not really a reason why with training he couldn't be very good at the athletic side, it's just whether he can be at the other sides of the business such as psychology, selling, promos, showmanship etc.

The reality is, whether Becky or anybody else likes it or not, that Jon Jones coming through will bring eyeballs on the product and a certain credibility, back in the day Mike Tyson coming through was big even if he didn't wrestle, because we KNEW he was legit, Brock still has a certain aura around him because of that factor. I think it's a bit unfair of Becky to say what she did because someone like Jon Jones, or Comier for that matter (who may be even better at WWE) have paid their dues in an extremely tough sport, their value is high and the use of them would be different than a standard wrestler. Did she say anything about Tyson Fury when he came through? Cause it was the same thing, both proven in other sports that came through to another field,

I think it's obvious it's not as simple as walking in there, there's a lot more to wrestling than being a good athlete but anybody that's made themselves a star athlete is gonna get a look and an opportunity at the least. The name for yourself shyt don't make sense in terms of Jon Jones, he's done that already.

You also don't have to love it or be obsessed with it, some can come in for a 1 shot deal for a moment, to do it long term you got to love it but it's different depending on the individual and what they do.
 
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Act likes Jon Jones wouldn't give your company the most buzz its had in fukking years. :camby:

Act like there aren't a number of wrestlers who only wrestle a couple times a year :camby:

This bytch :camby:




Also I'm all for a Jon Jones wrestling run if he can still move by the time he makes the jump. He been looking a bit lethargic tho in his last couple of fights. Gonna need them discus elbows from out of nowhere on deck :ufdup:

They’re either retirement age or in catering :russ::russ::russ::russ:
 

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With an injury. It wasn’t because she was bored.
:comeon: tell me what kind of injury has a recovery period of 6 years?

Funny how, after all that time, this mysterious condition cleared up right when WWE gave her a tryout. It's a medical miracle I guess.

You know damn well the real story is that she wasn't "obsessed with this" enough to keep grinding on the indies.
 

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:comeon: tell me what kind of injury has a recovery period of 6 years?

Funny how, after all that time, this mysterious condition cleared up right when WWE gave her a tryout. It's a medical miracle I guess.

You know damn well the real story is that she wasn't "obsessed with this" enough to keep grinding on the indies.
She was a manager. She managed Paige and her mom for 3 years. Her indies were the European market and I think shimmer. She had a concussion. Ask R=G , he knows more .
 

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She was a manager. She managed Paige and her mom for 3 years. Her indies were the European market and I think shimmer. She had a concussion. Ask R=G , he knows more .

:comeon: she "managed" Paige and her mom for a grand total of 4 shows in 2011. The most part, she was traveling around doing random jobs like waitressing and training to be a clown.

And why ask anyone when Becky herself has talked about it

"I left for seven years," Lynch said. "Seven years. It was a lot of self-sabotage, like, people talk about the fear of failure, right? But they also don't talk enough, I think, about the fear of success. Because at the time, I was 19 and I was doing well. And I was making a name for myself. I also didn't really have any support, or any backing, or any guidance. Like, my mom didn't want my wrestling. And if you weren't in WWE you were off fending for yourself and I wasn't making a lot of money. I'd make like, what? $50 dollars a weekend, if even," she said.

"So it was just a lot of, I got so in my head," Lynch continued. "I got to succeed, I got to succeed, I got to succeed, I got to succeed. But then it was like, oh, but what if I do? And what if I'm not good enough? Ya know? And all these things. So I kinda got depressed, I got confused, I got lost, I got hurt in a match, and I kinda used that as an excuse to kinda step away. And I couldn't even face up to the fact that I couldn't face up to it. I had to hide behind the excuse of, oh, I'm hurt. Which is why I think I take extra exception to when I'm genuinely hurt and people are calling me out like I'm hiding behind something."

:unimpressed:


shyt wasn't no goddamn 6 year injury.
 

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To be fair...I think Brock does like/love wrasslin'.

based on what? :mjlol:

literally said fukk the WWWF and left in his prime to go tryout for the NFL, then jumped to UFC. Then when he finally returns it’s only for 2-3 play fights an year. Everyone who personally knows him says he never gave a shyt about the business and never watched it growing up

but he loves that rasslin :troll:
 

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To be fair, MMA seems to be obsessed with them too. Boxers and boxing has its own lane and is treated in much higher regard for good reason but yeah. I feel like yes UFC is more legit but to Lynch’s point, these play fighters get put through way more for as much if not more success. Most people can name maybe five UFC fighters while with wrestling I bet money you would hear way more names from past and present. I think ufc and especially their fans have an inferiority complex as do wrestling fans but UFC fans like to point at wwe and be like “c’mon man, we better than that shyt”. That Stephen A Smith backlash was very telling
That's the thing, it's mainly the MMA fans who act like this. MMA fighters & Boxers for the most part love/respect pro wrestlers. Becky is just like Seth because both of them just have to have an opinion about everything. Did she have this kind of response when it came to Conor McGregor possibly joining the WWE?
 

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I'm sure we'll get Seth Rollins opinion on this before the week ends. :unimpressed:

Wouldn't be too far of a stretch to say that she's echoing what Seth is thinking. I'm sure he's tired of seeing Brock, Tyson Fury, and Cain Velasquez walk into ridiculous pay days and featured matches. Not to mention that Jones is legitimately a walking Steroid Suspension who would probably get somewhat of a pass with WWE's wellness violation.

The Markkks are in the ring :wow:

Marks have been in the ring since the beginning.
 

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What's this supposed to mean? No one on Raw is more over than Becky Lynch..I can show you cute pictures of the Undertaker , Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels pre Attitude Era too. Lol. Silly.

The way you dorks use the term "over" like it means a fukking thing.

This bytch ain't drawing shyt. Ratings and attendance in the toilet. Ask any random off the street and they don't know what the fukk a Becky Lynch is.

She ain't moving the needle AT ALL. Only reason she ever headlined Mania was because of a MMA fighter deciding to get paid off her carny business.

"Over"...fukk outta here :mjlol:
 
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