Becky Lynch Pokes Fun At Grand Rapids’ Name During WWE Event

WWE recently made its way to Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids for Monday Night Raw, and the people of Michigan were giving Becky Lynch a lot of noise while she was in the ring, cutting a promo. Her most recent angle is cutting promos and talking like President Donald Trump, which everybody finds super cringe.

During the promo, she was cutting in the ring, she made a very valid point that I don’t think it’s talked about enough in regards to the name of the city, as you can see in the video below:

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I haven’t seen a single rapid. Very misleading name, very misleading.

While she did her best to sound like a complete moron, she did make a kind of an interesting point. Where are all the rapids in Grand Rapids? For that answer, I went over to history grandrapids.org, and they revealed why the city has that name:

Many people living in Grand Rapids have given little thought to the origin of the name of their home city. There is nothing in the present aspect of the river itself to suggest any rapids, to say nothing of any grand rapids. In the very early days the river presented a much different aspect than it does now. Then there were some very grand rapids—rushing waters that extended from near Sixth Street to Wealthy Street.

They go on to discuss the river's river bed decline, which has led to the rapids not being so grand:

This sharp fall or decline in the river bed at Grand Rapids is disguised because of the power canals on each side of the river, which take up the water and carry it through many factories and out through numerous tail races, so that the name “Grand Rapids” is not suggested anymore by the present appearance of the river.

The name doesn't reflect the current layout, but it's still a grand place to be.