Becky Lynch: The Man
Not Your Average Average Girl
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4.4 • 8 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A New York Times bestseller! This “infectious and contagious” (“Stone Cold” Steve Austin) memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin—a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch—delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame.
Raised in Dublin, Ireland, in a devoutly Catholic family, Rebecca Quin constantly invented new ways to make her mother worry—roughhousing with the neighborhood kids, hosting secret parties while her parents were away, enrolling in a warehouse wrestling school, nearly breaking her neck and almost kneecapping a WWE star before her own wrestling career even began—and she was always in search of a thrilling escape from the ordinary.
Rebecca’s childhood love of wrestling set her on an unlikely path. With few female wrestlers to look to for guidance, Rebecca pursued a wrestling career hoping to change the culture and move it away from the antiquated disrespect so often directed at the elite female athletes who grace the ring. Even as a teenager, she knew that she would stop at nothing to earn a space among the greatest wrestlers of our time and to pave a new path for female fighters.
Culled from decades of journal entries, this “endearing debut memoir” (Publishers Weekly) offers a candid depiction of the complex woman behind the character Rebecca Quin plays on TV.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Climb into the ring with WWE superstar Becky Lynch in her body slam of a memoir. Before she became “The Man,” Rebecca Quin broke moulds just hitting the mats with the boys. Quin writes with total candour about her young life and the events that catapulted her to fame—and we definitely related to her awkward, insecure, and sometimes hard-partying youth. But she’s just as earnest when she writes about what it felt like to find her calling and dedicate herself to a career in wrestling. Along the way, she goes down some paths we hadn’t known about before, like her handful of TV roles, her work as a stuntwoman, and her experiences with motherhood. Whether or not you’re into wrestling, this is a story of a true trailblazer.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Pro wrestler Quin, who performs as Becky Lynch, delivers an endearing debut memoir about her life and athletic career. Born in Ireland in 1987, Quin began wrestling professionally in 2002 under the name Rebecca Knox, and concentrated initially on playing the role of the "heel," or villain. She joined WWE in 2013, a time in the organization when women "couldn't punch, couldn't throw uppercuts, and were encouraged to pull hair and slap each other." She was a key figure in the move away from such sexist limitations, first making a splash in 2018 when she impulsively slapped champion Charlotte Flair in the face during a match she was scheduled to lose. Though she lost anyway, the Becky Lynch persona was born in that moment: "The one who... was never the best, or the strongest, or the most naturally gifted, but who had heart and fire and fight. They knew what it was like to be passed over for that promotion or not asked to that dance." Quin was a hit with audiences, and she went on to become the first woman to win WrestleMania. She grounds her accomplishments with candid discussions of body image issues, her unglamorous pre-wrestling days as an Aer Lingus flight attendant, and moments when she acted like a "jerk," being petulant at work or an "asshole" on social media. Such honesty sets her account apart from other professional athlete memoirs. Even non–wrestling fans are likely to enjoy this.
