Becky Lynch

Rebecca Quin (born 30 January 1987) is an Irish professional wrestler.

She is signed to WWE under the ring name Becky Lynch, where she performs on the Raw brand.

Lynch is one of WWE's most recognizable and highest-paid wrestlers.

Rebecca Quin was born in Limerick on 30 January 1987.

She grew up in the Dublin suburb of Baldoyle.

Her parents separated when she was one year old.

She started watching professional wrestling from a young age with her brother, Richy, who later wrestled under the ring name Gonzo de Mondo.

She was involved in horse riding, swimming, and basketball.

However, she claimed to have failed P.E.

in school.

Quin attended University College Dublin to study philosophy, history and politics, but said she 'really hated it' and dropped out.

She planned to return to college to study health and exercise studies.

Prior to beginning to train as a wrestler, she stated that she had been 'going down a bad path' involving alcohol, but wrestling helped her give it up.

As a teenager, Quin heard that Fergal Devitt and Paul Tracey were opening a wrestling school in Ireland.

Quin began training as a professional wrestler in 2002.

Initially working in Ireland, and occasionally teaming with her brother using the ring name Rebecca Knox, she soon began wrestling across Europe and North America on the independent circuit for various promotions.

She began training there along with her brother in June 2002.

She made her professional wrestling debut five months later on 11 November, using the ring name Rebecca Knox.

She teamed with her brother in mixed tag team matches during the early part of her career.

She also trained at British professional wrestling promotion NWA UK Hammerlock.

She most notably competed in Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling and became the inaugural SuperGirls Champion in 2005.

Knox joined the Canadian promotion SuperGirls Wrestling, an all-female offshoot of Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling (ECCW) in May 2005.

Following her arrival at an ECCW show in Surrey, British Columbia, Knox feuded with Miss Chevius and defeated her, but lost to her in Port Coquitlam a month later.

The following night, Knox teamed with Calum Macbeth to defeat Miss Chevius and Tony Tisoy in a mixed tag team match in Vancouver.

On 24 June, Knox defeated Miss Chevius at an ECCW show in Surrey to become the inaugural SuperGirls Champion.

In late 2005, Knox participated in All Pro Wrestling (APW)'s third ChickFight tournament in Hayward, California; she defeated Morgan in the first round, but was eliminated by eventual winner Mariko Yoshida.

Knox then won an eighteen-person battle royal at an event in Tokyo, Japan.

In 2006, Quin had a severe head injury during a match which kept her away from wrestling for several years.

Knox successfully defended the championship on several occasions before eventually losing it to Lisa Moretti in April 2006.

Knox began working for the all-female promotion Shimmer Women Athletes in early 2006.

In her debut match for the promotion, she defeated Allison Danger, and established herself as a heel (villain) by faking an injury.

Following that, she began feuding with Daizee Haze; Knox lost the first match between them, but won the rematch of two-out-of-three falls.

She returned in 2012 and signed a contract with WWE in 2013, assigned to the developmental territory at NXT.

Following her push to WWE's main roster, she became the inaugural SmackDown Women's Champion at Backlash 2016 and has held the title four times.

In 2018, Lynch transitioned to a more aggressive character starting at SummerSlam, when she attacked Charlotte Flair, presenting herself as an unfairly treated underdog and dubbing herself "The Man", resulting in a large increase in her popularity.

Twitter named her sixth on their list of Top Female Athletes Worldwide in 2019.

In 2019, she won a Royal Rumble match, and at WrestleMania 35 won both the Raw Women's Championship and SmackDown Women's Championship, making her the first woman to hold both titles simultaneously and a four-time WWE women's champion.

She lost the SmackDown title the following month but then set the record for the longest reign as Raw Women's Champion at 399 days until going on a hiatus due to pregnancy in May 2020.

In August 2021, Lynch returned at SummerSlam to confront SmackDown Women's Champion Bianca Belair, whom she would defeat seconds later to become a four-time SmackDown Women's Champion.

With her WWE Women's Tag Team Championship win in early 2023, she became WWE's Sixth Women's Triple Crown Champion, and then after winning the NXT Women's Championship in September 2023, she became WWE's Sixth Women's Grand Slam Champion.