Road Dogg recalls being confused by the reaction to Becky Lynch's actions at SummerSlam in 2018.
The SummerSlam pay-per-view from 2018 will go down as a historic show for the career of Becky Lynch, as many will argue it was the show that kicked off Lynch's memorable march to WrestleMania 35. At that show, Lynch won both the Raw and SmackDown Women's Championships in a triple threat match against Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch.
At SummerSlam in 2018, Lynch and Carmella lost to Charlotte Flair in a triple threat match for the SmackDown Women's Championship. Lynch had Carmella locked in her signature 'Dis-Arm-Her' submission, when Flair ran into the ring and hit Lynch with her signature move, 'Natural Selection'. Moments later, Flair pinned Lynch to win the SmackDown Women's Championship.
After the conclusion of the match, Flair and Lynch hugged it out, seemingly ending all issues between them. Moments later, Lynch sent Flair to the mat with a slap before dragging her to the ringside area and throwing her over the table. Many fans say that Lynch's turn on Flair got one of the biggest reactions of the night.
On a recent episode of the Oh... You Didn't Know? podcast, 'Road Dogg' Jesse James said that he thinks the fans were wrong for cheering Lynch, as she was showing bad sportsmanship in terms of the story.
“The idea was that Charlotte came in and weaseled her way in and won the title, and kind of stole it from [Becky]. Becky had a title match. So, why — and that’s just where maybe I’m older and I don’t understand, but you don’t just get handed crap around here. So to me, the whole thing was, I thought the fans were wrong. You’re cheering the wrong person here because — what if the Bad News Bears were shaking hands with the team, or whoever, your baseball-playing son is shaking hands saying, good game, good game or your softball-playing daughter, good game, good game and the team that loses just beats the crap out of the person. Do you pop for that, or do you go, ‘Oh my god, what are you doing? That’s horrible sportsmanship.’ That’s what Becky did, and people loved it. It let me know then, like, oh okay. There’s no goodness left at all [laughs]. It’s all Twitter, the world is Twitter. The world is Twitter now.”
James went on to note that he still has the same stance on the matter to this day, citing that he thinks Lynch was a heel with every move that she made.
“This is still my stance and I’ll have this conversation with anybody, and maybe I’m wrong, but it’s my belief. Becky was the heel with every move she made, but the crowd ate it up. Yeah, we predicted that they would pop for Becky [at SummerSlam] because Becky’s star was rising. I thought, ‘Well surely they’re going to see that Becky is just a spoiled sport here.’ She lost. I’m sorry, you lost, and then because you lost, you beat me up. You beat up your friend. I can sit here and talk all night about how she should be the heel in this story, but because of society and how the culture is, and I would say wrestling twitter, which leads the conversation a lot of times.”
Elsewhere in a recent podcast, James said that he felt like he would have fit in as an uncool member of the NWO if D-Generation X had never existed. Fans can learn more here.
Becky Lynch is set to face Trish Stratus in a Steel Cage match at the upcoming Payback pay-per-view. Fans can see the updated card for that event by clicking here.
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