Earlier this year, Becky Lynch lost the Women’s World Title to Liv Morgan at the King and Queen of the Ring pay-per-view event. Two nights later, she faced off against Morgan in a Steel Cage match on RAW. Lynch’s contract with WWE expired on June 1st.
During a recent appearance on the “Backstage Pass” podcast, Jonathan Coachman claimed that Lynch was asking for two million dollars a year, which he says WWE turned down. The Coach said,
“Roman’s at that 15-20 million mark, and TKO doesn’t want to pay anybody. […] Then you got Cody Rhodes, who’s making 10-15 reportedly. Then Seth, who is her [Becky Lynch] better half, he’s probably in that three to seven million range. So reportedly, she was asking for over two million a year. […] They didn’t do it..[…] If they paid her, she’d be on the show. And they’re desperate for females right now.”
Fightful Select is reporting that this isn’t true. Lynch and WWE remain on good terms, with the company letting her decide when she wants to return. It was added that if Lynch wanted to sign a deal before her time off, WWE would have agreed to it.
As far as the $2 million figure is concerned, Lynch never requested that amount. If she did, the company would have gladly accepted that offer as the pay scale for top tier talent in both WWE and AEW is well beyond that number these days.
