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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
The Lee Matthews Podcast more what You Hear

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Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive. Rebecca
Quinn is her real name, but you

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probably know her better as Becky Lynch
as a WWE superstar, and she's written

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all about her experiences in a new
book, The Man Not Your Average Girl.

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Becky Lynch. Good to have you
along today, Hi, how are

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you? Thanks for having me?
Good to have good to have it here,

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and let's start with how a nice, sweet, little Irish Catholic girl

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gets into the WWE. Well,
there was nothing nice and sweet about me

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back then. I'll tell you that. Probably a lot nicer and sweeter right

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now than most back then. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know,

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still trying to figure it out.
But well, you did you have

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older brothers you would scrap with?
I did have an older brother. I

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did have an older brother. Yeah, he's four years older. He's the

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one who got me into wrestling.
Wrestling was always on in our house.

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It reminds me of my wife and
her older brother. They were expatriots serving

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in the Air Force with the parents
were serving in the Air Force in the

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early seventies in Great Britain and that's
all that was on for them to watch,

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so they would watch wrestling and then
they would mimic wrestling. So even

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she was getting into it at a
young age. Yeah, that was the

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same with me and my brother.
We used to dress up in my mom's

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clothes and wrestle on her bed.
And then and then, you know,

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I fell out of it for a
while, and then it got so hot

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in the Attitude Era, and my
brother be watching it, and then I

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would be making fun of him for
watching it, and then I would I

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would walk past the TV and I
saw McK foley and he was so engaging

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and captivating, and then I was
there to stay. And then I fell

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in love with it, and then
I wanted to know everything about it.

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And when I found out they were
opening a wrestling school in Ireland about an

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hour away from me, I I
went down the first day. I went

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down the first day it opened,
and I didn't think that I could ever

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be in the w w WI like
that seemed way too ambitious, way too

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unrealistic. But I just went down
to give it a try and try to

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get fit because I was a little
wasterter than failed pee and uh and and

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and for the first time in my
life, I had a drive to become

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better at something. Well, that
was my next question too. In between

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the time that you were scrapping with
your brother on your mom's bed and you

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decided to get into it more seriously, did had you been very athletic?

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No, not at all, not
at all. Failed pe was a little

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stone or waster up to no good
break in my poor mother's heart. Yeah.

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Yeah, and and and then wrestling
just put me on the straight and

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arrow. So there was which is
a fun thing to say, Well that

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there must have been quite a bit
to get into it physically. You must

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have had to really kind of change
and and start start a real physical regimen.

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Yeah, I I did. But
like, it's so funny because as

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bad as I was at PEH,
I wasn't scared of the hard work.

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When it came to wrestling. I
felt like I was tough, and like,

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I don't know if that's because you
know, I felt like I had

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been through so much in my life. My parents were separated and and and

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that was was hard on me.
But but like I you know, it's

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that teen angst of feeling like you've
been through so much in this life,

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and nobody understands your heart to break, and now you are broken, and

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you are tough and you can handle
anything. And that's kind of how I

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felt a little bit. But but
it was a blessing because because it meant

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that I would put up with anything
and and and I wouldn't complain about the

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soreness or the pain of things,
like I was ready for the physical toughness

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of it. Beggy Lynch and her
book The Man Not Your Average Girl.

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She is the w W E star
that you've heard so much about, and

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she talks all about it in her
new book, The Man Not Your Average

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Girl. So tell me about the
first match you were in where you really

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we really got some licks. So
let me it's not your average average girl,

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average average girl. I'm sorry,
I thought that was a typo.

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Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's

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it's it's it's it's it's it's meant
to be there because I was so painstakingly

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average and have done some not so
average things. And tell tell you about

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a few licks that that when when
I first started, there was there was

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this move that I was doing where
it's called a crucifix into a sunset flip,

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and so you wrap your legs around
some and and when you when you

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you then drop through the person's legs
and roll them up. But as I

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walk through their legs like a little
baby coming out kind of on the other

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side, you know, the person
sat on my head and so I remember

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being like, oh no, oh, no, this is it. This

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is when the neck is broken.
But thankfully it was just a stinger and

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moved on past it. But you
know, there's always going to be things

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that go wrong in wrestling, and
that's why you train and that's why you

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practice so you can make sure that
those things are few and far between.

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Were you wrestling with other girls?
No, I was the only girl in

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Ireland. Okay that was not in
general, not in general, but just

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it was the only girl wrestling in
Ireland. And did any of your opponents

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try anything shall we say spicy on
you? No? No, no,

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no, no, no, no, no, everybody everybody. No.

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I had just a very positive experience. Everybody was so respectful and you know,

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the lads would hit on me,
but like I was so average that

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I was loving it. I wasn't
used to getting all of this attention.

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I was like throwing a stake into
a pack of lions. I was like,

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oh, great, great attention,
what's this like? Never thought I'd

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get it? And but but but
but nothing ever, ever bad. And

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I have my brother there, who
you know, was there to protect me

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and look after me, much to
his chagrin. You know, did he

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support you and your decision to get
into this not not initially, not initially,

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but then when he saw I wasn't
dropping out and I wasn't backing down,

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then he supported me immensely. There's
a bit of empowerment in wrestling.

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It's it's almost a modern day,
real life superhero. Yeah. Yeah,

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absolutely, it's it's heroes and villains
there. The stories were telling, and

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Becky Lynch tells all about it in
her book The Man Not Your average average

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Girl. Because I got it wrong
earlier, you have my permission to body

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slam me next time I see you. Thank you so much, Thanks for

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having me, Thanks for listening to
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