Trish Stratus on potential WWE return: It would have to ‘mean something’
If Trish Stratus is going to return to a WWE ring, it will have to “mean something.”
During an appearance at GalaxyCon this weekend, Stratus told Sports Illustrated that if she ever wrestles again, it would have to be a challenging performance that delivers something new for fans, similar to her heel turn and run against Becky Lynch last year.
“I have to be able to deliver a hundred percent. Then also, it has to be something challenging and different for the fans. And it has to do something and mean something. To leave off on this epic moment that’s memorable and people talk about it, it’s hard. Like, what can top that?”
“I think it’s like examining the landscape and seeing what works best for everyone,” Stratus said about the prospects for her return. “There’s so many parties to consider. The person that is in the storyline, the WWE. It’s really collaborative.”
Stratus turned heel and attacked Becky Lynch at the April 10, 2023, episode of WWE Raw. She was filling in for Lita as Lynch’s partner in a WWE Women’s Tag Team title defense against Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez on the show. As the storyline developed, Stratus enlisted the help of Zoey Stark and encouraged fans to say, “Thank you, Trish.” Their feud culminated in Lynch beating Stratus in a steel cage match at Payback on September 2, 2023.
“I knew that if I went back, I wanted to do a heel turn,” Stratus said of the storyline. “I’m gonna go back and do something challenging as a performer and something different for the fans. I’d come back and done [performs her trademark point] a thousand times.”
“I loved working with Zoey [Stark] when I went back. That was important to me because I knew that, I’m doing something. I’m giving back. I’m not giving Becky the rub, she doesn’t need the rub, right?”
“What I saw in that was like a generational face-off for fans. I know I’m giving the fans that,” Trish said. “Zoey coming in made me feel like, okay, we’re kind of like next-genning. Right? So it was nice.”
Stratus’s full interview with Sports Illustrated will be released on YouTube tomorrow.
