5 WWE Superstar names and backstage stories behind them

#2 Becky Lynch

Becky Lynch

Becky Lynch rose up the ranks in 2019 and went on to headline WrestleMania 35. She later bagged the cover of WWE 2K20 alongside Roman Reigns. Lynch's success story is an inspiring one, as she didn't think she had anything left to do in the business, back in 2011.

Lynch was given a bunch of names back when she was a newbie in WWE. After rejecting and modifying a few, she stuck with Becky Lynch. Robin Daly was one of the names that Lynch rejected.

They wanted a name associated with my own name, like Rebecca. So I became Becky, and two of the names that came back to me were Becky Lynch and something like Madeleine. I was like, ‘I didn’t even submit that, I don’t know how it got in there.’ It made me think of that TV show Madeleine. Anyway, I said no to that, and the other name that came back was Robin Daly. I actually did like that, but I thought it would be better to have a part of my own name in there, so Becky Lynch it was.

Becky Lynch didn't do much of note during her first three years on the main roster, and many feared that she would end up being the weakest one of The Four Horsewomen. In a surprising turn of events, she garnered huge fan support following her heel turn at WWE SummerSlam 2018, and soon, The Man was born.

Lynch would turn into the most popular Superstar in all of WWE over the next several months, with her epic journey culminating in the main event of WrestleMania.