Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch open up on their journey from WWE colleagues to life partners
Before their partnership became WWE’s most powerful relationship, Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch dedicated themselves to their professional work. The couple revealed their entire relationship journey from their initial backstage meeting in 2014 to their 2019 relationship crisis which ended with them discovering their true connection on Going Deeper.
Becky Lynch recalls early WWE nerves during first Seth Rollins encounter
Becky entered WWE through the backstage common area, where new wrestlers faced an unspoken requirement to introduce themselves to others. She first encountered Seth through this method.
“You’re always supposed to go up and say hi to everybody… you feel like you’re interrupting people and annoying people the whole time… but you don’t want to get that reputation. So I came up to introduce myself and I was like, ‘Hi, I’m Rebecca.’”
Seth Rollins reveals his initial thoughts after meeting Becky Lynch
Seth remembered it well and not just because of her entrance. The year 2018 saw the passage of time after their previous connection. Their friendship involved them spending time together and engaging in romantic teasing while Seth established his intention to avoid any serious commitments.
“She just talked my head off for an hour straight. The first time I ever met her, she just went… and I was like, ‘Oh, okay. All right. Great.’”
“When I met her, I was like, I’m never getting married… I don’t think monogamy is for me.”
Becky Lynch explains the moment she chose to walk away
Becky described herself as someone who needed to protect her emotions through an emotional shield. She reached her limit of endurance. She left the situation because she believed she had made a reasonable choice which would benefit her. Becky believed Rollins would respond positively to the news which he received.
“Either I go in full armor and I don’t feel anything, or I don’t go in full armor and I’m just looking to get pummeled… either way, it’s not a good outcome for me.”
“I was like, ‘This doesn’t work for me. I don’t want to be half in. What are we doing if we’re not doing this properly? We can just be friends.’”
“I was so happy about this revelation. I was like, ‘Oh my god, wait till I tell him, he’s going to be delighted.’”
Instead, he spiraled.
“As soon as she said she was out, I was like, ‘Oh no, you are not. You are in.’ I was like, what is wrong with me? I cannot let this slip through my fingers… I realized I’d gone about this all wrong.”
The turning point that reignited Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins’ romance
Becky reached her life-changing moment during her time at a fan signing event because of their separation. She saw people wearing Seth Rollins merch and couldn’t stop gushing.
“I saw people with Seth Rollins shirts… and I just lit up. I was just talking about how great he was. There was this massive line of people and I’m just going on about how great Seth Rollins is. And then I was like, ‘God damn it… I should call him.’”
Seth became completely committed to her request when she told him that she wanted to start their relationship again. He immediately began to develop their future plans.
“When she came back and told me that she was like, ‘No, I think I want to do this,’ I was like, yeah… that was it.”
“I started ring shopping within two months. I told my friends, ‘Oh yeah, we’re probably going to get married. You can bank on that.’”
When hesitation met unwavering commitment
Becky maintained her watchful state because her previous doubts about his mental state still troubled her. She explained the fear behind her hesitation:
“I was still a little nervous because of everything he had told me… it was so easy and so comfortable, but I was like, ‘Don’t pull the cart before the horse.’”
“Either I go in full armor and I don’t feel anything… or I go in without armor and I get pummeled. Either way… not a good outcome for me.”
Seth reached his final decision. The couple became engaged after three months of dating which they started in August 2019. The wedding was originally planned for 2020 in Hawaii but COVID delayed those plans which affected many other events.
“I just want you. That’s all I want.”
“We were going to get married in 2020… COVID screwed that up. So we lost a year and we ended up doing it in 2021.”
When intimacy mattered more than numbers
Their wedding was to be held in Hawaii because of the place in which they got married while the occasion had a few guests, but the feelings were larger than life.
“We wanted to get married in Hawaii… we had a small wedding, but even trying to get 20 people there was too much.”
A real-life love story stronger than any WWE storyline
The relationship began as lighthearted flirting which progressed to become one of the most stable partnerships in WWE history. The event required Seth Rollins to experience deep sorrow and extreme anxiety before achieving complete transformation from his previous self. Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch demonstrated that true love requires time to develop until one partner decides to end the relationship, which leads the other partner to discover their true feelings. Their journey begins with emotional separation and ends with them exchanging wedding vows in Hawaii, which creates a more authentic story than any WWE script could ever produce.