2025 has been a coming out party for Lyra Valkyria.
Lyra started out the year competing in a tournament to be crowned the first-ever Women’s I.C Champion. She beat Dakota Kai to win the belt and Valkyria was stuck in limbo for a bit despite being a champion.
She had a match here and there for her title, but no feuds were coming her way. That was until Becky Lynch came along. Once “The Man” turned on Lyra, this feud instantly helped show Lyra’s personality and charisma, which has done wonders for her as a wrestler.
Lyra’s feud with Becky was her coming out party, and though she ended up on the losing end, she gained so much that will help her in the long run. Lyra spoke to TV Insider about how her life has been a whirlwind in the last several months.
“It has been an incredible few months. Now I’m looking back on my reign as IC Champion for the first time and everything that has happened with Becky and Bayley over the last few months. I now have this really cool catalog of matches. I’m creating this body of work that I’m really proud of. I’ll tell people all the time when I first started watching WWE, I used to fast forward the matches to get to the winner and what happened at the end. What they said to each other. I’ve always had an appreciation for that side of it. To get to now do more of that and do it against people I looked up to and made me want to do this has been amazing.”
With social media, everyone is now a backseat driver. Wrestlers are certainly no strangers to criticism and though some of it can be quite valuable, Lyra doesn't lean too much into the social media aspect.
“I try not to lean into social media too much. It has been great doing these little things. It’s always a marathon and not a sprint. I would say people have to go out and try things and go through the ups and downs. I love my chunky shoes. Chunky shoes and a little blue will always be my thing.”
Lyra also talks about the current landscape of the product and she feels that this is the best time to be in a WWE locker room.
"It’s hard to say because I’ve only been around now, but I could not have found a better time to be part of this locker room than right now. I really feel that, especially at Evolution. It’s so hard to talk about a feeling in this setting, but I wish I could take the atmosphere and good vibes and camaraderie between the girls at Evolution and show that to the world. I think that was a big reason the show ended up so good and why we knocked it out of the park."
Check out the full interview where Lyra talks about her boyfriend, entrance music, and so much more regarding her WWE career.