On a recent episode of the Steve Austin Show podcast, Stone Cold Steve Austin shared some thoughts on the Smackdown Women’s division. Specifically, Austin gave his opinion on if Becky Lynch should be a heel or a babyface.
Becky Lynch’s heel turn has been a hot topic of conversation over the past few weeks. She turned heel but is still getting one of the loudest reactions in WWE. It appears as if WWE is now changing their course with Becky and will not be pushing her as a full-blown heel.
Here is what Austin had to say on the topic (h/t to Wrestling INC for the quote):
“I loved [Ric] Flair as a heel. He’s the greatest [pro] wrestler of all time, but his heel work was outstanding. His baby work, eh, he’s still Ric Flair, but I like Ric Flair as a heel. Charlotte I like as a heel. Becky I like either way. But, man, when she knocked the hell out of Charlotte, that crowd came unglued when they turned her heel, but it was the biggest babyface reaction of the night. People came unglued, so where does she go?
“I just think let her be whatever the people want her to be. To me, for her, she doesn’t need to be a heel or a baby – she just needs to be Becky Lynch. And this is truly one of those cases where they say, Roman Reigns, no matter how the people want to take him, they can take him as a heel or baby, but he’s just going to be Roman. To me, I just think let’s take that out of the equation. Whatever they’re going to do with him, they’re going to do, with him beating Brock [Lesnar], but Becky ought to just be Becky because there’s money in Becky being Becky. Let the people decide. As long as she’s being true to herself, she’s going to fly as high and as far as they want her to.”
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On a related note, Austin recently shared his thoughts on Kevin Owens getting squashed at Summerslam. You can read more about that here.