Inaugural SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch will try to regain her title on Sunday at SummerSlam, where she’ll face Carmella and Charlotte Flair in a triple threat match.

With just a few days until the biggest pay-per-view of the summer, Lynch spoke to For The Win about her journey to SummerSlam, her pre-match routines, and the upcoming all-women’s pay-per-view, WWE Evolution.

SummerSlam will air Sunday, August 19th, at 7:00 p.m. ET on the WWE Network.

FTW: What does SummerSlam mean to you, and do you have any favorite SummerSlam memories?

Becky Lynch: “It feels like the culmination of everything that I’ve worked for. Starting with the women’s revolution, which three years ago we had that three-on-three-on-three match, and that was our first major pay-per-view. To be able to come from that, I did not do anything last year – I remember sitting in the back being so upset. Having worked as hard as I possibly could last year and feeling like nothing had really happened and I didn’t get any benefit from it. From that to this, being in there again with Carmella and then my best friend, knowing that I have a lot to prove. I feel like it’s a big moment.”

What was your first reaction to Charlotte being added to your championship match? Were there any conflicting feelings?

“To be honest it was a disappointment, because when she was gone I really feel like I worked my way through the roster, beat everybody I possibly could, and then she shows up…. It really felt like it was going to be my moment and my time to shine. Her being in the match, yes it’s great and great for her, and it’s always great to share the ring, but you know, I wanted that to myself.”

You were the inaugural SmackDown women’s champion back in 2016, which was your first title in WWE. What do you remember from that night at Backlash when you won, and what was life like for you as a champion?

“I didn’t stop smiling. You couldn’t wipe the smile off my face…. I remember the next day, the weird thing is I don’t really like to celebrate things, right? I’d always think ‘what’s next?’ So something good happens, I’m like ‘oh that’s great, what else can I do?’ So I remember it only hitting me a couple of days later, I was in a Denny’s. We used to love to come to Denny’s – and I remember being in the bathroom and looking in the mirror, and I go ‘I’m the SmackDown Women’s Champion’ and jumping up and down on my own like a little weirdo.”

On the day of a big show like SummerSlam, do you have any pre-match routines to prepare yourself?

“I just try to get centered, you know. If I can, I do some yoga in the morning. I try to write about how I see the match going and then really visualize it – and I’ll generally do that the night before. I’ll write it, how I want the match to go, what I want the reaction to be, what I want people to take away from it.”

Do you make any changes to your training routine in the buildup to a mega-event like a SummerSlam or WrestleMania?

“My diet kind of always keeps very consistent and on track. As far as training it’s always just amping it up. You always amp it up, especially when you have that motivation of something big being around the corner, and then the intensity goes through the roof.

And what’s really good is, I CrossFit, but there’s a group of us, we do these little competitions around different times. We do them around Survivor Series, and we do them around WrestleMania, and then of course we do them around SummerSlam. So I’m in that with Seth Rollins and Cesaro and Noam Dar and Bayley and Sasha, so we all kind of compete against each other in these really tough, intense workouts. And I feel like that really helps coming up to the pay-per-views.”

I’m sure you don’t want to give anything away, but do you have any special gear for planned for SummerSlam?

“I do, yes. I’ve seen a layout of it and it looks amazing, so I hope it looks as good on me as the patterns do.”

This is a very exciting time of the year for women’s wrestling, with the Mae Young Classic going on and WWE Evolution coming up. What has the atmosphere been like in the locker room since Evolution was announced?

“I think everyone just wants to prove themselves. Everyone wants to go into that as champion, but only one person’s going into that as champion, and we know who that is, right? I think everybody is excited, and I think they look at is as an opportunity to really showcase their skills and really highlight themselves. I think we just want to steal the show.”