On a recent edition of The Steve Austin Show podcast, Stone Cold shared his thoughts on some of the matches at Summerslam. We already covered Austin’s thoughts on Kevin Owens getting squashed at Summerslam [read here]. We now have his thoughts on Becky Lynch turning heel after Charlotte Flair won the Smackdown Women’s Championship.
Austin first weighed in on the triple threat match at Summerslam (h/t to Wrestling INC for the quotes below):
“All the women, damn good. Carmella, probably the least experienced in the ring, for sure the least experienced, great character though.
“Anyway, they’re telling their story and all-of-a-sudden, the finish goes down, and then, at the end of the match… I want to talk about this, just the psychology and people’s reaction there in Brooklyn, New York, whatever you want to call it. Charlotte goes over. She’s happy, obviously. Becky and her are close friends. They hug, and then, just that big ass right hand, slap. And then, more devastation from Becky Lynch and she blows the roof off the place. She’s turning heel and gets a babyface reaction.”
Austin says that he thinks Becky is a better babyface than a heel (and prefers Charlotte as a heel):
“I’m a fan of all the women in this match, but I love Charlotte as a heel. Becky, she’s a better babyface than heel, but she’s that fiery individual that people just really love, so I’m wondering if they’ll take her as a heel. And I thought Charlotte was very effective in the sell job, kind of sitting there on her ass. I don’t know, awestruck, or dumbfounded, or just devastated of what happened to her. So I thought her selling on the backend of that was very strong and very effective.”
Austin added that he thinks Carmella was elevated by working with Becky and Charlotte:
“I can speak from experience when I worked with people who were better than me. They elevated me. So I think Charlotte is a hell of a hand. I think Becky is a hell of a hand. I think they elevated [Carmella]. She’s a person, obviously she’s very proud of what she can do and is striving to improve every single day. But she had the least experience, in-ring experience, of the women in the match and I thought they raised her level and she raised her own level as well. That probably was her best performance. A lot of the time, there is a lot of telegraphing and you can see the hesitation or the gears turning. And hell, when I was green, I was doing the exact same thing, so I speak from experience when I say I’ve been where she is.”
On a related note, here are our early predictions for Hell in a Cell.