Summary

Becky Lynch believes stepping away from the top of WWE in 2020 to have her daughter mattered as much as her history-making WrestleMania 35 main event.

Lynch discussed that point while appearing on *Good One with Jesse David Fox*, where she agreed that giving up the Raw Women's Championship at the height of her run was a revolutionary moment in its own way. She framed it as proof that women in wrestling do not have to choose between a family and a career.

The comments continue a theme Lynch has touched on in other recent interviews, including her belief that WWE needs to rebuild women as WrestleMania main eventers after the breakthrough she helped create in 2019.

Quote from Becky Lynch

Speaking with Jesse David Fox, Lynch said:

"I think so, too. It's not one of those things where you get an audience cheering for you. I do think that me doing that when I was at my hottest made it so that other women can do this and it's a thing that we won't bat an eye at anymore. We've seen it happen and now you have little kids in the back and they're playing, women are coming, and you don't feel like it has to be either or. It's, 'Yes, I can have a family, and I can have a child, and I can figure it out.' Obviously, the schedule now is much easier. When I first had my daughter, we were still on the road, and we were doing live events and traveling, so we were gone four days a week and bringing her everywhere. Now, you're gone one day a week, maybe a few more. It's a much easier schedule and allows people to have that option. I think it was hugely important that I did it, and people saw that it wasn't a career ender."

Becky Lynch's point about WWE after 2020

Becky Lynch tied this directly to what changed in WWE once she left as champion to become a mother. Her argument was not about a crowd reaction or a single headline, but about normalizing the idea that a top star could pause her run, start a family, and still be seen as a major part of the division.

That matters because Lynch was not speaking about a down period in her career. She was the Raw Women's Champion for more than a year after becoming the first woman to headline and win the WrestleMania main event, so the decision came at the peak of her push. In that sense, her comments cast the move as another milestone in how WWE presents long-term careers for its women's roster.

Sources

Becky Lynch on Good One with Jesse David Fox