Becky Lynch enjoyed WWE WrestleMania 38 more than WrestleMania 35

Becky Lynch’s WrestleMania 35 triumph isn’t her favorite WrestleMania moment of all time.

History was made in 2019 when Lynch, Ronda Rousey, and Charlotte Flair became the first women to ever headline WrestleMania. Lynch defeated Rousey and Charlotte in the WrestleMania 35 main event to win both the Raw and SmackDown Women’s titles.

But despite that being such a defining moment of her career, it’s not Lynch’s favorite WrestleMania. Lynch told Sports Illustrated that she actually enjoyed her WrestleMania 38 loss to Bianca Belair more:

I enjoyed WrestleMania 38 where I lost to Bianca more than I enjoyed WrestleMania 35. I think Daniel Bryan said something similar, as well, about enjoying his WrestleMania match against Kofi [at WrestleMania 35] than he did WrestleMania 30. It’s weird like that. Sometimes, what we enjoy in terms of our artistic expression aren’t always the stories that audiences revere the most.

Lynch explained that she had more creative freedom at WrestleMania 38 due to being a heel:

When you were a top babyface [in Vince McMahon’s WWE], you were micromanaged a little more. At WrestleMania 38, I had more freedom creatively. When you’re the villain, you’re making the crowd like someone else. There’s a lot of fun in putting the shine on someone else.

Belair is one of Lynch’s favorite opponents. She recently named Belair and Charlotte as her in-ring “soulmates.”

Lynch’s memoir, “Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl,” was released last week. In her interview with Sports Illustrated, Lynch said WrestleMania 35 was one of the hardest subjects to write about in the book:

That’s the girlhood-dream-come-true moment. Everyone asks me, ‘How did I feel?’ I felt everything, but I also felt nothing. It’s this weird juxtaposition. I made it, but had anything changed? There were fireworks, but my internal landscape wasn’t any different. I found it one of the harder things to write about in my book. That’s the thing people want to read about it. I understand that–it’s the culmination.

Then the next night I’m brought back to earth when I had to do a segment with Lacey Evans on one-hour sleep while Vince was yelling at me in Gorilla. On the flip side, there was the confidence and the cockiness I walked around with leading up to that match at WrestleMania 35.

Ultimately, it wasn’t my destination. It was another important stop on my journey.

At WrestleMania 40, Lynch will have another big moment as she challenges Rhea Ripley for the Women’s World Championship. Lynch has said that she thinks her match against Ripley will be part of the card for night one of WrestleMania 40 this Saturday (April 6).