LAS CRUCES - Becky Lynch has always been a fan favorite of the WWE Universe since her main roster debut in 2015.

She's primarily worked as a babyface during her three years on the main roster, but it's been a recent heel turn — or you could just call it a character change — in the past month that has maybe made Lynch's character more over than ever with the fans as she's involved in arguably the hottest feud in WWE right now with Charlotte Flair.

Lynch — who's real name is Rebecca Quin — is currently in her second reign as SmackDown Women's Champion, beating Flair for the title last Sunday at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view, as she and the SmackDown Live roster return to Las Cruces for a live event Sunday night at the Pan American Center.

“Whatever I am doing right now, I am loving it," Lynch said in a interview with the Sun-News when asked if she prefers working babyface or heel. "Whatever this is, I love it.”

Her current feud with Flair started prior to SummerSlam when Lynch was supposed to get a one-on-one match with then champion Carmella at SummerSlam for the SmackDown Women's title after Lynch worked her way back into the title picture. But it would later become a triple threat when Flair was presented an opportunity to join the match by beating Carmella.

Lynch hadn't been champion for two years and it was her best friend Flair who would win the title at SummerSlam to start her seventh title reign.

Following Flair's win, Lynch slapped Flair and attacked her best friend, turning heel in the process with the crowd in Brooklyn, New York, cheering like crazy for Lynch. She then challenged Flair for the SmackDown Women's Championship at Hell in a Cell where Lynch won her first title since she was the inaugural SmackDown Women's Champion in 2016.

"Just in general, people around the world … you try and be the nice person, always," Lynch said about her character's change. "Everybody. And I think this is so relatable. For the most part, people are generally good and want to do the right thing. And sometimes, it just backfires on you. My dad used to always tell me no good deed goes unpunished. And I think that’s what you’re seeing with Becky right now, that she’s always done the right thing and it hasn’t gotten her where she wants it. And now she’s had enough and she’s saying ‘I don’t care who’s in my way.’

"I left home at 16, traveled the world and slept on people’s couches. I came with a goal and I haven’t gotten that because I have been too focused on doing the right thing always when other people aren’t. That’s what we’re seeing and she’s had enough … she’s not letting them be an obstacle anymore.”

Despite turning heel, crowds are not booing Lynch. She's still getting cheered tremendously. WWE Hall of Fame broadcaster Jim Ross recently said on his podcast that Lynch's crowd reactions are similar to what "Stone Cold" Steve Austin was getting at the beginning of his run in 1997 and 1998.

“That means the world," Lynch said about Ross' compassion. "You can’t get a better comparison than being compared to Stone Cold Steve Austin. He’s one of the greatest. He’s so smart in how he did things, his reactions and how we would sell things. Just his charisma and how we would talk. It was impossible to not want to cheer that guy because he was doing what we all wanted to do. None of us want to take crap from anybody and I think that’s the same thing Becky Lynch is doing right now too. That’s the highest honor you could possibly be given.”

Getting to WWE

Lynch, 31, started wrestling in 2002 in her home country of Ireland and was trained by current WWE RAW superstar Finn Bálor. She worked the independent scene in Europe, Canada, the United States and Japan, but in 2006 she decided to leave the industry at age 19.

During that time, she worked as a flight attendant, went back to college, got her degree and worked as stuntwoman. After she graduated from college, she was working as a stuntwoman on the TV show "Vikings," which was being filmed in Ireland at the time. She hadn't had much experience, so she went back to wrestling school to work on stuff to help her as a stuntwoman. While at the wrestling school, Joe Cabray — who signed with NXT at the time — was there and told Lynch that she still had it and if she ever considered a WWE tryout.

"I was like, 'Well Joe I have my plan.'" Lynch said. "And I had plans to go to New York, my visa was all paid for, my flight was all paid for and I was going to go off. I thought about it for two seconds and said “yep, that’s (wrestling) what I was meant to do.”

When she got the tryout, WWE Performance Center trainer Robbie Brookside was running the camp. Brookside remembered Lynch from a independent show and wondered what had happened to her.

"As soon I got the tryout, I was like there is no way I am not getting this," Lynch said.

Lynch was signed to NXT - WWE's developmental brand - in 2013, and has had some memorable matches, such as against Sasha Banks for the NXT Women's Championship on NXT Takeover: Unstoppable in 2015; against Flair and Banks in a triple threat for the WWE Women's Championship at WrestleMania 32 in 2016; and last Sunday's match against Flair.

Working on WWE's first all-women's pay-per-view

Lynch is scheduled to defend her title against Flair at WWE Super Show-Down in Melbourne, Australia, on Oct. 6 and will have a prominent role of WWE's first ever all-women's pay-per-view, Evolution, on Oct. 29 on Long Island, New York.

Should Lynch still be champion, she'll defend her SmackDown Women's Championship at Evolution.

"As soon as it was announced, I said I am going to walk in there as a champion, I am going to main event the show and I am going to walk out as champion," Lynch said. "The goal is to be the main event of Evolution, have everybody talk about it and have it be the best pay-per-view of all time, and of course, the best main event of all time because Becky Lynch is going to be in it and she’s going to be bringing a whole lot of straight fire.”

Mark Rudi can be reached at mrudi@lcsun-news.com, 575-541-5455, or on Twitter @mrudi19.

If you go

What: WWE SmackDown Live brand live event

When: 7 p.m., Sunday

Where: Pan American Center

Tickets: Range from $15-$95. Can be purchased on Ticketmaster.com, calling Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000 or by visiting the Pan American Center box office.

Becky Lynch bio

Hometown: Dublin, Ireland

Nicknames: The Irish Lass Kicker, Becky Balboa

Finishing move: Dis-arm-her (Armbar)

WWE main roster debut: 2015

Career Highlights:

Two-time (Current and inaugural) SmackDown Women's Champion

First woman drafted to SmackDown Live during WWE Brand Extension Draft in 2016

Entered No. 2 in the first ever Women's Royal Rumble last January

Part of the Four Horsewomen of NXT and WWE, along with Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks and Bayley