This man (finally) returns to WWE. Almost a year after leaving wrestling, Becky Lynch made a victorious return in WrestleMania, where she worked with the Irish and Protégé, women's intercontinental champion Lyra Valkyria, to win the WWE Women's Women's Championship.

"When my contract came out, I took what I thought was going to be three months," Lech said of her absence. "I was like, 'Okay, it seems like a good time to take a break and do something." Then something else came out - I was filming Star Trek, and then "Happy Gilmore." There is (reward) on the time of Rumble, but at the last minute, I get the next big event.

A week after WrestleMania, Lynch got on the ring on "Monday Night" and happily admitted attacking Bayley so she could replace her as Valkyria's Mania Tag Team partner. Although Lynch and Bayley are 2/4 of an informal wrestler, known as the "Host of Four", she said fans overestimate their actual distance.

"When we showed up, 'Four Horse Riders' we were never a close alliance," she explained. "When you talk about 'Four Horse Riders', it's not like we're a faction. We are ambitious women who want to change the game, change the way things are and be seen as the biggest stars in wrestling, regardless of gender."

Even in the early days of NXT, Lynch said she felt Bailey didn’t have the full cost mentality of the other horse riders. "That's most of our ambitions. Bailey just wanted to like as much as possible. I beat her in 2014 and people loved it. In 2019, she hit me with a chair and we've never been friendly since then.

"I was called twice to join the war game team that I had no business because people wanted me to deal with Bailey and they knew I could," Lynch added. "Now everyone is so shocked that I attacked the woman I've been fighting for years.

At first, Lynch's plan seemed to be without a barrier: She successfully brought Bailey out of the action and replaced Lyra Valkyria's Tag Team partner to win the tag title from long-time rivals Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez. Unfortunately for Lynch, Morgan and Rodriguez won the rematch on Monday Nightbirth the next night, where Valkyria slipped, gave her own achievements and earned her own label title on less than 24 hours of gold.

"Lyra pulled all my job and lost the failure the day after I became a double champion," Lynch said. "What do anyone expect from me? Of course, I'm going to flip the lid."

Lynch is no stranger to what it takes to be a double champion: In 2019, she made history in Wrestlemania’s main competition, being the first woman to hold both the Raw and Smackdown Women’s Championships. As a perfectionist with a championship caliber lineage, Lynch doesn’t appreciate Valkyrie’s victory return that ruined her.

“I’m the greatest female professional wrestler of all time, and that’s not just what I say,” Lynch said. "There is evidence of record, Sports Illustrated puts a list. Laila didn't have any on that list. Then there was one of the 20 greatest WWE wrestlers ever, 'Of course, I'm on that list. There's no other woman on it, but I'm."

Tensions were boiling, and the game was officially held: the mentor and disciple of the Intercontinental champion in "Counterattack". In a recent episode of "Monday Night", Valkyria tells Lynch that she has "knowing (she) a better wrestler than (her)" and that she hopes she will be a better person, too. Lynch is questioned about the champion's assessment of his situation.

"Let's look at Lyra's track record," Lynch insisted. "In fact, let's dig into that because Lyra is talking about her better wrestler than me, but she lost the first two games after winning the Intercontinental Championship, and she lost. She lost. She lost those games! What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Should you give up that title? You should give up that title. That woman should sit in her hand awkwardly, crying, crying."

She continued: "Then she went to the horse race next to Bayley and decided she would be her tag teammate into WrestleMania without thinking about me." "I tried to be kind, I tried to be nice, I tried to help her. I was back and I did all the good things, even if it was a boiling thing behind my head.

As for whether their relationship can be saved, Lynch said the ball was in Valkyrie's court.

"That will be on her," Lynch said. "I'm really someone who's attacked again and again when you think about it. She's been attacking my character here, telling me I'm a terrible person. I haven't done the same thing to her. I've said she's wrong, she's stuck in the wrong influence. I've said she's frank and disrespectful, but I've not attacked her performance, she's not attacking her character, her identity is the same.

What is her expectation for reconciliation? If she is willing to kneel down and apologize, and say, 'I'm sorry, Becky, I realize you are the greatest ever. I realized how wonderful you are. I realized that if it wasn't for you, I would have nothing. Thank you for every portion of food you eat, I can make money from the wriggle because I allow you to do everything you can, because you do nothing and you do nothing. Dreams I can achieve and do them the way I do it, which is successful, but not as successful as you do.

Regardless of what her relationship with Valkyrie looks like after the “bounce”, Lynch is ready and willing to defend her title.

“Many NXT wrestlers have come up with ‘Raw’. Giulia, Stephanie (Vaquer) and Roxanne (Perez), they are all new,” Lynch explained. "Of course, let them bask in the sun in front of me. If they want to step up, I will decide a proper time and place and I will take them to show them more they have to learn. They will get better from it because you learn more from failure than from victory."

Although Lynch is used to teaching wrestlers for wrestlers in the field, she is happy to watch the professional in another medium: the performance. In December 2024, Lynch revealed that she joined the cast of the upcoming Starfleet Academy prequel series.

"Besides it was an amazing experience, I'm not sure how much I can give," she said. "I'm on the bridge, filming on the bridge, and it's one of the most amazing scenes I've ever been to. Director and writer Alex Kurtzman is a great guy to work with and learn with them. Paul Giamatti was there, Holly Hunter. It's amazing just to learn from them in front of them, to the opposite of their work."

Although she was not a stubborn fan before she made the series, Lynch said she was trapped in a "trek" family. "When 'Star Trek' was one of two shows on Irish TV, I grew up, no matter what four channels we had, so it was always in the backstage. I can't say I sat down and watched the movie, but I do love the movie. We all love Colm Meaney.

As the latest member of the vast Star Trek In the universe, Lynch was able to introduce his family, husband (WWE wrestler Seth Rollins) and 4-year-old daughter Roux, introducing the world of "Trek". "They came one day. I think Rooks was overwhelmed by the size of everything, but it was amazing."

"Starfleet Academy" is one of several projects Lynch has solved in wrestling matches. In January, she took to Instagram to reveal her surprise character in "Happy Gilmore 2" which arrived on Netflix on July 25.

"That actor was crazy," she said. "The world I had to play was ridiculous, wonderful and incredible fun. The timing of that scene was amazing, seeing Adam Sandler and the stars of how he showed that word, but was very kind to everyone. The atmosphere and tone he set was incredible, and then he jumped in, rewrites things, helping the director, and getting him doing everything in everything.

Lynch isn't the only professional wrestler in "Happy Gilmore 2". Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF) of all elite wrestling also played a role in the film. As for whether she crossed the path with MJF on the spot? "I did it. You know, a really good boy. The chat was great. Sure, he knew he would lose that (promotional war), but we had a great chat. Unfortunately, that was before that happened, but I feel like he completely agrees with everything I said to Lyra."

"Starfleet Academy" and "Happy Gilmore 2" are not Lynch's first foray into acting. She graduated from the Dublin Polytechnic in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in drama arts, worked as a stunt performer on "Vikings" before becoming famous at WWE, and even played wrestling enthusiast Cyndi Lauper in the episode "Young Rock".

"I love the collaboration of it, and that's what it boils down to," she said of the acting world. "Creative collaboration, where you can work with different people and bounce ideas, see them come to life, you can try things. In wrestling, it's a live medium, so you can shoot a shot."

This interview has been edited and condensed.