The WWE return of Trish Stratus was something the two sides have been talking about for a while.
The WWE Hall of Famer recently sat down with Graham Matthews of Bleacher Report to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked what led to her recent WWE comeback, Stratus said this is something that’s been in the works for a little while.
“I’ve been speaking with WWE for a little while now about doing a little something because I did the live events,” Trish Stratus said. “There’s always ideas thrown at me. Once they saw me get in there with the girls, it becomes ‘This could be something.’ I have a great relationship with WWE, so we’ve always talked. ‘Would you come back?’ ‘Yeah, if there’s a right moment.’ If the right moment is challenging and I can touch another generation and make a difference, that would be great, and those boxes would have to be checked.”
Trish Stratus and Lita have always been connected in some way throughout their WWE careers, which makes the upcoming six-woman tag match at WrestleMania 39 even more special.
“I’m excited to see the story told from our perspective now at this point in our life with where the women are in the industry, and hearing their insight brought to the documentary as well is going to be really special,” Trish Stratus said. “I’m really excited to have that moment to show the journey and share my voice and know that it’s been heard and knock down the preconceived notion of what it was like to be a female in the ring and we did it together.”
While Stratus and Lita didn’t realize it at the time, the history they made for women in WWE is still being felt all these years later. Something that Stratus can now see from a different perspective.
“It took us being retired, going out and meeting fans, doing autograph signings and the dad saying, ‘I just got my daughter into wrestling but I started with your stuff, the OG stuff,'” Trish Stratus said. “It’s really cool and the network allowed that to happen. We definitely have a different perspective now… It takes those moments and to hear what people are saying to realize, ‘Woah, what a difference.'”
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