There are many real-life couples in wrestling. Montez Ford and Bianca Belair, Karrion Kross and Scarlett, Charlotte and Andrade El Idolo, and Malakai Black and Zelina are just a few. Even Bronn Breaker and Cora Jade recently announced that they're dating.
Wrestling's power couple, however, is Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch. They ruled wrestling as the heads of their respective decisions before their relationship was even announced. Their on-screen characters survived having their relationship made public in an odd pairing on Raw. Now they're married with a child and as strong as ever in the ring and in real life.
In 2019, Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch were at the top of the WWE food chain. WrestleMania 35 saw them having their most significant career moments. Rollins would beat Brock Lesnar to become the Universal Champion at the beginning of the night. The main event saw "The Man" Becky Lynch become part of the first group of women to ever main event a WrestleMania, with the extremely over Lynch beating Charlotte and Ronda Rousey to become both the Raw and SmackDown Women's Champion. It was a huge moment for them as wrestlers. Behind the scenes, the people behind the characters, Colby Lopez and Rebecca Quin were falling in love.
In an interview with ESPN's Ariel Helwani, Lynch described how she and Rollins got together. "We've been friends for years and years, and just immediately the first conversation that I ever had with him... we just hit it off. I think I just ended up telling him my life story. And that was it, we were just friends, and there was never really anything. But then, we were both single at the same time, and then we were like, 'Why not?'"
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As many celebrity couples do these days, the pair made their relationship official over social media. WWE decided to cash in. If Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch were super popular alone, then it could be a plus to put them together on TV and acknowledge their relationship. They were used together in multiple storylines and mixed tag matches. Fans loved it at first. It was fun to see Lynch and Rollins together in the ring. But as WWE often does, they began to shove the relationship down the fans' throats (nowhere near as bad as AEW does with Sammy Guevara and Tay Melo fortunately). An odd angle saw Rollins and Lynch team up to take on and beat Baron Corbin and Lacey Evans at Extreme Rules 2019. After that, the couple quit their on-screen pairing.
In an interview with Sports Media With Richard Deitsch, Rollins spoke about why the two didn't work as an on-screen duo on Raw. "We tried to make the best of it, but I don't think either of us were terribly comfortable with it. Even though we have incredible chemistry as people, as performers, our characters never really vibed on-screen."
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Behind the scenes, the two's relationship continued, with an engagement announced in August 2019. On TV, Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch would be fine without each other. Becky Lynch carried the Raw Women's Championship until after WrestleMania 36 in 2020 when pregnancy forced her to relinquish the title. Rollins would lose his title back to Brock Lesnar, before beating Lesnar again at SummerSlam. While Lynch took a hiatus from WWE, Rollins stayed at the top, turning heel with his great run as The Messiah and The Visionary.
On December 4, 2020, their first child, a daughter named Roux, was born. Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch would follow that up by getting married on June 29, 2021. On Raw, you might see their relationship brought up briefly here and there, but WWE has yet to put them back together. It's a temptation worth resisting. The two are maybe the best in the business, but they don't need each other on TV. While it would be fun to see them together again, they are a couple who don't need the other to make them popular. The wrestling characters of Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch are doing just fine on their own.