The world knows Rebecca Quin as Becky Lynch, the longest-reigning Monday Night Raw Women's Champion and current Grand Slam Champion for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Lynch, aka The Man, is a badass, but there’s more to her than her wrestling alter ego. The Ireland native is a mother, undeniable star and one of the highest paid athletes in a male-dominated profession. Drawn from her journals, she’s captured it all in her new memoir “Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl.”
WBUR assistant managing editor Meagan McGinnes moderated a conversation with Quin about the book.
About “Becky Lynch: The Man”
This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin — aka The Man, aka Becky Lynch—delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame.
By age seven, Rebecca Quin, now known in the ring as Becky Lynch, was already defying what the world expected of her. Raised in Dublin, Ireland in a devoutly Catholic family, Rebecca constantly invented new ways to make her mother worry—roughhousing with the neighborhood kids, hosting secret parties while her parents were away, enrolling in a warehouse wrestling school, nearly breaking her neck and almost kneecapping a WWE star before her own wrestling career even began—and she was always in search of a thrilling escape from the ordinary.
Rebecca’s deep love of wrestling as a child set her on an unlikely path. With few female wrestlers to look to for guidance, Rebecca pursued a wrestling career hoping to change the culture and move away from the antiquated disrespect so often directed at the elite female athletes that grace the ring. Even as a teenager, she knew that she would stop at nothing to earn a space among the greatest wrestlers of our time, and to pave a new path for female fighters.
Culled from decades of journal entries, Rebecca’s memoir offers a raw, personal, and honest depiction of the complex woman behind the character Rebecca Quin plays on TV.