Trish Adora reflects on what her character means to her and representation overall.
Trish Adora is the Pan-Afrikan World Diaspora Champion. She’s regularly making waves on the independent circuit and competed in the Ring of Honor Women’s Championship tournament this past summer. Speaking with the Washington Post, Adora explained how her character is in her own eyes and what it was like for her to find representation while watching WWE in Jacqueline.
“She was very strong, and just seeing a Black woman being taken seriously and being strong and still beautiful — and not being stripped of that femininity — was so important for me to see. I couldn’t even believe it,” says Adora, who was born Patrice McNair, raised in Southeast D.C. and still lives in Anacostia.
“When everybody was picking their favorites, you gravitate to somebody that looks like you, and I finally had somebody that looked like me,” she says. “I had my superhero.”
She added, “Trish Adora is who Patrice McNair could be if nobody ever hurt her, if she was just nurtured from the beginning … if she had never gotten neglected,” she says. “I see Trish Adora as me, plus love.”
When discussing signing with a promotion, Trish, who had signed with Ring of Honor before the promotion announced they were going on hiatus, said that she was always more interested in the journey along the way so that each performance and appearance felt rewarding.
“If it’s my life’s goal to work [somewhere] — and if I spend 15 years working in a gymnasium and making a bunch of little kids smile and happy — then I still wouldn’t feel fulfilled,” she explains. “What’s most important to me is not that I got there, it’s that I was able to do some cool stuff.”
The wrestling world is still reacting to Ring of Honor announcing they were going to go on hiatus. The play-by-play man, Ian Riccaboni, revealed on social media that if he is not called upon to call Ring of Honor in the future or if the brand never returns, he will likely retire from announcing.
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