Former Divas Champion propounds why Becky Lynch winning the NXT Women’s Title is a “money-making” decision

Mickie James is in full support of WWE's decision to have Becky Lynch win the NXT Women's Title.

Former Divas Champion propounds why Becky Lynch winning the NXT Women’s Title is a “money-making” decision

Becky Lynch after winning the NXT Women's Championship (via WWE)

WWE Superstar Becky Lynch recently began a feud with Tiffany Stratton on NXT. She eventually captured the NXT Women’s Championship from the latter on the September 12 edition of NXT. Former WWE Divas Champion Mickie James sheds light on why making Lynch win the brand’s top prize was a good decision.

The WWE veteran spoke on a recent episode of the “Busted Radio Open.” She elucidates why Becky Lynch winning the NXT Women’s Championship was indeed the right call. James believes that putting the strap on The Man would bring more viewership to NXT. Her popularity will be immensely beneficial to catapulting the Gold brand.

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Becky Lynch wins the NXT women’s championship

The five-time Women’s Champion describes Lynch capturing the title off Stratton as “the perfect scenario.” She further added that having a seasoned star like Becky on NXT will help out the up-and-coming talents of the developmental brand who can get in the ring with her.

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Mickie James highly praised this move calling it a money-making decision. She said, “To now have one of your biggest stars on television, period, to be your Women’s Champion at NXT. The eyeballs that’s going to put on the product, the matches now that they can have […] I just think it’s money all the way around.” (H/T Wrestle Inc.)

Big Time Becks consolidated her star power as NXT scored an average of 850k viewers. It was indeed a huge jump from last week’s 673k. Her match with Tiffany Stratton peaked with 1.06 million viewers in the 8-minute overrun. This epitomizes Becky Lynch’s star power.

Related: WATCH: What Becky Lynch did after winning the NXT Women’s Championship after NXT went off air

Bully Ray slams fans for saying Tiffany Stratton is being buried by Becky Lynch

Bully Ray showers praises on Tiffany Stratton
Bully Ray showers praises on Tiffany Stratton (via Instagram)

This week on NXT, Tiffany Stratton’s reign as the NXT Women’s Champion came to an abrupt end. On the latest episode of “Busted Open Radio,” WWE Hall of Famer Bully Ray shares his thoughts on Tiffany’s title loss to Becky Lynch.

The WWE Veteran states that the 24-year-old is a star in the making and that the social media clamor about her burial after the title loss to Lynch is ridiculous.“Tiffany Stratton is more over today in her loss to Becky Lynch than she was going in to NXT as your WWE NXT Women’s Champion,” Bully Ray claims.

The Hall of Famer highlighted that the NXT superstar was trending all over social media after her loss to Becky. He added that she has all the tools to be the modern-day Trish Stratus in WWE.

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