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Becky Lynch was almost a 'Vikings' star before auditioning for WWE
By Jessica Sager
Published January 09, 2019
Even if Becky Lynch didn't become a WWE superstar, you may have still been able to see her on TV.
"When I was 15 I started wrestling, right? By 19, I traveled the world, I'd been the youngest foreign female to wrestle in Japan, [the] main event in Japan. I lived in Canada, I lived in America, I wrestled around Europe — and then I quit," Lynch, 31, told Fox News. "I quit wrestling for seven years and I did everything that I thought I possibly wanted to do."
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"Going back to college and studying acting was one of those things," the Limerick, Ireland, native continued. "I left college and I got my acting degree, and I was looking for work. I handed in my resume and headshot to 'Vikings' because they were filming in Ireland."
"I get a call and it's from 'Vikings,' and they're like, 'Hey, do you stunts?' And obviously, the way my resume read, because I have all this physical experience, they thought I was a stuntwoman!"
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Lynch lied and assured the producers that she could, in fact, do stunts and then had to actually figure out how to be a stuntwoman.
She says she went to a wrestling school to practice for stunt work — and that it was when she was at the wrestling school, someone asked if she ever tried out for WWE, because they believed she'd get signed.
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In April 2013, Lynch signed with WWE and moved to Florida, where she began working with NXT. By that August, she went from Rebecca Quin to "Becky Lynch," and a WWE superstar was born.
"I thought about it for maybe two seconds," she said about her fateful WWE audition. "That's it. That's what I was meant to do."
Fox News' Steve Credo contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/becky-lynch-was-almost-a-vikings-star-before-auditioning-for-wwe