10 wrestlers who need a push after WrestleMania

#6 Becky Lynch

The first ever SmackDown Live Women’s Champion has become a complete afterthought. Instead of being the world-beating fan favorite Irish Lass Kicker that the entire crowd wants her to be, she’s just friends with Charlotte and Naomi and will do whatever she must in order to protect the sanctity of the women’s division. Or some silly crap like that. By choosing to side with Charlotte against the Riott Squad, Becky was putting herself at the back of the line for a title shot and actually helping the current champion hold onto her title instead of trying to earn the right to take it away from her.

It’s terrible, awful booking and WWE, especially SmackDown, has been guilty of having absolutely zero clue how to portray their women on a weekly basis. For months upon months, it has literally just been some combination of Becky, Naomi, and Charlotte taking on Ruby, Liv, and Sarah. Singles, tag and six-woman tag matches between those six women have dominated the division, with Natalya getting a sniff every once in a while and Carmella, Ms. Money in the Bank, occasionally gets to poke her head out from behind the curtain to remind people that she exists.

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The whole thing is a mess, but in my eyes, the biggest tragedy of all is that Becky Lynch has been reduced to being a glorified sidekick when she used to be the most loved female superstar on SmackDown -- one of the show’s biggest stars, male or female, to be perfectly honest. Becky Lynch needs to be a big presence in the women’s division in 2018, whether it’s on RAW or SmackDown.

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I got my first big break writing for 411Mania back in 2004. I did a small spot in a big weekly piece that was written by one of the site's top writers. I quickly added the duty of being the live recapper for episodes of SmackDown, and in 2005 was given my own weekly column, which I did for a few years. I gave up writing (mostly) to start a family but got back into it, still at 411, a little over 3 years later. For another couple of years, I wrote 2-3 columns per week for the website before finding paid work elsewhere, and eventually wound up at SportsKeeda.

I am also the co-founder of the RBR: Weekly Wrestling Talk podcast, which started in the summer of 2005 and is still going strong today, almost 15 years later. Due to school, work, and family commitments, I left the team in 2011 but still remain a part of the family.

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