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While speaking to The Stevie Richards Show, Stevie Richards talked about Becky Lynch’s current run as a heel and said it isn’t working as well as when she was a babyface.
>“Well, her heel character to me is not as good as her babyface character, because even though the saying is—or at least the comparison is—that it’s much easier to be hated than loved, her and Cena are the opposite. People just like them no matter what. Even though Cena gets the dual chants of ‘You suck’ and ‘Let’s go Cena,’ Becky doesn’t even have a 50/50 reaction right now. She’s mostly still getting cheered to some degree, or at least people are watching. But there’s also apathy, like the crowd doesn’t know how to react to her—and that’s not a good thing. It’s negative.
>I feel like with Cena and Becky, you can tell they’re acting like heels. They’re playing the role—’I’m mean, I don’t care about you, I care about me, you made me do this, you don’t know me.’ Remember that line? ‘You don’t know me’? But there’s no truth in it now.
>And also, you can’t come on TV and talk in the past about becoming a mother—the most babyface thing you can be—and then come back and try to be a heel again. It’s like she’s entering dangerous Paul Orndorff territory: babyface, heel, babyface, heel. At some point, the audience stops caring either way. And that’s the worst place to be. That’s where she has to be careful.”
Richards also said that Becky didn’t help Lyra Valkyria look good. He said Lyra looked inexperienced in the ring and struggled on the microphone. The storyline between them felt weak and he stated that Lynch’s heel turn has been dead on arrival.
>“She’s not getting the other girl over either—the friend Lyra Valkyria. She’s not helping her. The girl looks green in the ring with her, can’t hang on the mic, doesn’t hit her with anything real. It’s flat. The turn’s been dead on arrival.”
