WWE star Becky Lynch has accomplished a lot in her wrestling career, but now she's preparing for a new journey after announcing her pregnancy.
As the longest-reigning Raw Women's Champion in history, the Irish wrestler teased she had a major announcement to make before the airing of Monday's Raw TV programme.
Opening the show, she said that this was no ordinary night and she was "torn between joy and sadness". Lynch called down Money in the Bank winner Asuka, revealing that inside her briefcase was the Raw championship belt and that she would be relinquishing her title.
"I can't fight any more but you can. You are the champion," the 33-year-old wrestler said. "So, you go and be a warrior because I'm going to go be a mother."
Lynch is engaged to fellow WWE wrestler Seth Rollins. This will be the first child for the couple.
Speaking exclusively to People magazine, she confirmed that their new addition is due in December.
"I've always, always wanted kids," Lynch told People. "I'm just so career-focused that it became one of those things that, when you're chasing a dream for so long, I always wondered, 'Am I going to get around to it? Is it going to happen for me?'"
The wrestler started her WWE career in 2013 and quickly won over fans. She made history last year when she competed in the main event of WrestleMania 35 with Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey, marking the first time female wrestlers headlined WWE's biggest event of the year.
After her emotional announcement, Lynch took to Twitter to thank her fans:
Lynch and Rollins went public with their relationship last May and announced their engagement in August. They were set to marry this month but due to the pandemic those plans are on hold, she told People.
"We'll get around to that," she said. "There's no rush, and now we'll have a little flower girl or a page boy."
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UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
How much of your income do you need to save?
The more you save, the sooner you can retire. Tuan Phan, a board member of SimplyFI.com, says if you save just 5 per cent of your salary, you can expect to work for another 66 years before you are able to retire without too large a drop in income.
In other words, you will not save enough to retire comfortably. If you save 15 per cent, you can forward to another 43 working years. Up that to 40 per cent of your income, and your remaining working life drops to just 22 years. (see table)
Obviously, this is only a rough guide. How much you save will depend on variables, not least your salary and how much you already have in your pension pot. But it shows what you need to do to achieve financial independence.
The Africa Institute 101
Housed on the same site as the original Africa Hall, which first hosted an Arab-African Symposium in 1976, the newly renovated building will be home to a think tank and postgraduate studies hub (it will offer master’s and PhD programmes). The centre will focus on both the historical and contemporary links between Africa and the Gulf, and will serve as a meeting place for conferences, symposia, lectures, film screenings, plays, musical performances and more. In fact, today it is hosting a symposium – 5-plus-1: Rethinking Abstraction that will look at the six decades of Frank Bowling’s career, as well as those of his contemporaries that invested social, cultural and personal meaning into abstraction.
Top Hundred overseas picks
London Spirit: Kieron Pollard, Riley Meredith
Welsh Fire: Adam Zampa, David Miller, Naseem Shah
Manchester Originals: Andre Russell, Wanindu Hasaranga, Sean Abbott
Northern Superchargers: Dwayne Bravo, Wahab Riaz
Oval Invincibles: Sunil Narine, Rilee Rossouw
Trent Rockets: Colin Munro
Birmingham Phoenix: Matthew Wade, Kane Richardson
Southern Brave: Quinton de Kock
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Brescia v Lazio (3.30pm)
SPAL v Verona (6pm)
Genoa v Sassuolo (9pm)
AS Roma v Torino (11.45pm)
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