On this week’s “Rewind-A-Smackdown” podcast, John Pollock talked about the reaction that Becky Lynch has been getting and it looks like the backlash is causing WWE to backpedal on the heel aspect of her character.
Pollock said, “So I was told this after [this week’s Smackdown] that last week, based on the reaction Becky got, that they have slightly changed the direction here where the idea now is much less of a heel/babyface dynamic and instead it’s two ex-friends that both have valid points and neither is going to back down from the other and still getting Becky to the same place they wanted to but not so much wanting Charlotte to be a heel as a result of this. So it seems like they did learn from last week how everyone was into Becky.”
Pollock added, “Credit that they learned from last week. To me, it was a bad idea trying to turn Becky. If in fact they realized it, tonight you definitely did not get the same Becky as was presented last week.”
On this week’s Smackdown Live, Lynch attacked Flair after the match with Carmella and the show ended after Lynch called Flair a “b**ch,” which is something that a cool babyface character would say.”