Becky Lynch: 2024, I Was Pretty Burnt Out, I Told Hunter, ‘I Wanna Take Some Time Off’

Becky Lynch admits that in 2024, she was pretty burnt out after several years at the top of WWE and after having her daughter.

In mid 2024, Lynch would step away from the ring after a program involving Liv Morgan, with her WWE contract expiring following the culmination of the feud. This would lead to Becky taking time off from professional wrestling, returning to WWE at WrestleMania 41 to replace an ‘injured’ Bayley to team with Lyra Valkyria against Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez with the WWE Women’s Tag Titles on the line.

During episode one of the second season of WWE: Unreal, Becky Lynch spoke about how she was feeling in 2024, admitting that she was ‘pretty burnt out’ at the time.

“2024, I was pretty burnt out, and I said ‘okay, I think this is a good pause,’ I had been going on all cylinders since I came back from having my daughter. I love WWE, but I was away from her quite a bit and I felt like when I’d come home, she’d be mad at me, you know, and I hated that. She was always like my little bud. For all the thrills that you feel going out there in front of 30,000 people chanting your name or booing you or whatever it is, like, when I go to her gymnastics class and I see her doing, like a half-decent cartwheel, I’m like ‘Oh my God, my baby!’ It’s the greatest thing ever. May 2024, I told Hunter, I said, ‘Look, my contract’s up, I wanna take some time off,’ and he said ‘okay, well, look, we’ll pause it. We’ll give you a little bit of time and then we’ll renegotiate the contract when you’re ready.’ So that’s what we did.”

Elsewhere in episode one, season two of WWE: Unreal: Michael Hayes shared how he first found out that Lynch and Seth Rollins were dating. You can read more about that here.

WWE: Unreal Season 2 is available now to stream on Netflix.

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