Asuka, Kairi Sane, Bayley & IYO SKY vs Bianca Belair, Shotzi, Charlotte Flair & Becky Lynch (WWE, 11-25-2023)

WWE Survivor Series: WarGames, Rosemont, IL

It’s the WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGAMES: For Her!

This new and improved version of Damage CTRL is the coolest faction in WWE history, there’s really no question about that.

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

Charlotte vs Sasha Banks vs Becky Lynch vs Bayley (NXT, 2-11-2015)

NXT TakeOver: Rival, Winter Park, FL

A request! It’s a FATAL FOUR-WAY for Charlotte’s NXT women’s championship. Charlotte is the champion. The others want the belt.

It’s pretty much that simple.

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

Becky Lynch vs Tiffany Stratton (NXT, 9-30-2023)

NXT No Mercy, Bakersfield, CA

A request! I did not do a review for the first Stratton vs Lynch match, but I did happen to watch that one and thought it was really good. And joking about Becky getting busted down to NXT so she can fruitlessly chase a legacy as deep and meaningful as Charlotte Flair’s aside, I have no actual problem with her winning the NXT title.

1. Wrestling belts are pretend.
2. NXT is, basically, pretend. It has had so little actual impact on what happens for someone when/if they move up that it’s hard for me to take NXT seriously in the sense of, like, “protecting” talent. If you watch it every week and want to do so, feel free, just prepare for disappointment when people get to the big shows.
3. Working with Lynch makes Stratton better — or should, if Stratton is worth her salt, as she damn sure appears to be — and gives Stratton the rub of hanging with an established, true, actual superstar. Not WWE Superstar. A superstar pro wrestler. This idea doesn’t always (or even usually!) work like that, but I think this is the exact type situation where it does.
4. It gives NXT a shot in the arm. That seems to be working. I fully expect NXT to beat AEW in the numbers head-to-head this coming week when Dynamite does a Tuesday one-off, but mostly I’m looking forward to a fun ass night of wrestling because both shows appear to be loading up.

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

Trish Stratus vs Becky Lynch (WWE, 9-2-2023)

WWE Payback, Pittsburgh, PA

A request! The thing, to me, about this feud, is that it has been bad. But they did find an incredible new way for me to not much care what Becky Lynch has been doing for months.

This is inside a STEEL CAGE!

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

Becky Lynch vs Sasha Banks (WWE, 10-6-2019)

WWE Hell in a Cell, Sacramento, CA

A request! The second-ever women’s Hell in a Cell match, this one opening the Hell in a Cell PPV in 2019, which started at a high point and just kinda kept getting worse.

This is a match called by the team of Vic Joseph, Jerry Thekinglawler, and Dio Maddin. This was really some time in the old WWF. Not that they were bad or anything, really, they were exactly like every other rotating door WWE commentary team for the last decade that doesn’t have Michael Cole, but it’s hard to remember this was the Raw team for about six weeks in 2019. Then Dio got dropped, then Samoa Joe came in for about a month, then Vic Joseph was kicked out for Tom Phillips, and Joe was gone for Byron Saxton, but later Joe came back, and

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

REVIEW: WWE WrestleMania 39 Saturday (4-1-2023)

It’s night one of WrestleMania! The Showcase of the Immortals!

SoFi Stadium looks incredible, even by modern WrestleMania standards.

Bianca Belair vs Becky Lynch (WWE, 8-21-2021)

WWE SummerSlam, Paradise, NV

OK, let’s talk about it, I watched it, might as well.

Ronda Rousey vs Charlotte Flair vs Becky Lynch (WWE, 4-7-2019)

WWE WrestleMania 35, East Rutherford, NJ

We’re just a few hours from tonight’s Raw where Becky Lynch has a “major announcement” and there’s all kinds of outstanding wild speculation, so let’s look back on the crowning of “The Man” from WrestleMania 35. Both the Raw women’s title and Smackdown women’s title, held by Rousey and Flair respectively, are on the line.

Sasha Banks vs Becky Lynch (NXT, 5-20-2015)

NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable, Winter Park, FL

This is a request via Ko-fi. Sasha and Becky had formed an alliance in recent months, which predictably broke apart at the first real test. Becky won a three-way match to become No. 1 contender and then they brawled at a contract signing, all the normal stuff. This got the WUMWUMWUMWUMWUMWUMWUM music, too, which is cool, and is the debut of Steampunk Becky. This is for Banks’ NXT championship.