Doudrop's road to facing Becky Lynch has been 15 years long.
At WWE's Royal Rumble, Becky Lynch will defend her Raw Women's Championship against Doudrop. The title opportunity was earned when Doudrop defeated Liv Morgan and Bianca Belair in a triple threat match on the January 10 episode of Raw.
Speaking with Alex McCarthy of talkSPORT, Doudrop discussed her early days in the wrestling industry and how she has been waiting 15 years to have a match with Big Time Becks.
“I don’t know if people know this, but I’ve been waiting 15 years for this match. Way back when I first started training in a little warehouse in Linwood, Scotland, there really wasn’t many experienced girls in the UK wrestling scene at all. There was me, Nikki Storm – who had also just started out – down in England we had Mischief and Erin Angel and then over in Ireland we had Miss Rebecca Knox.
We were very aware of Becky at the time. Even back then she was at the top of her game. She was the girl our trainers were trying to get in and have matches with us so we could learn from her, get some kind of experience. But, sadly, unbeknownst to us at the time, she was just packing up things there to move over to the U.S. We made efforts to get her over but it just didn’t work out.
So 15 long years later, here we are. It’s one big ass circle to go in, but we got there [laughs],” Doudrop said.
WWE Royal Rumble is set to take place on Saturday, January 29, 2022. To view the full card for the event, click here.
Lynch and Doudrop teamed up last Monday to defeat Liv Morgan and Bianca Belair, but were not able to co-exist as Doudrop stole the pin the Becky by attacking. After the bell, she continued her assault on the champion by hitting a Banzai Drop.