Trish Stratus may need formally retired in 2006, however the WWE Corridor of Famer has confirmed that she will be able to nonetheless grasp with the fashionable crop of WWE’s feminine wrestlers. She has competed in Royal Rumble matches, wrestled on the primary and solely all-female WWE pay-per-view, Evolution, and her 2023 run noticed her feud extensively with Becky Lynch, culminating in a Metal Cage match that Stratus is extremely pleased with.
Nonetheless, she by no means had a singles match with Sasha Banks, now generally known as Mercedes Mone in AEW, and through a latest interview with “Sports activities Illustrated,” Stratus defined why.
“I feel it did not come as a result of I actually suppose folks by no means thought I would ever come again for one more match like after the Royal Rumble,” Stratus mentioned. “To consider, like, ‘Can she come again after nonetheless a few years to do a match like, what, 17 years after my retirement or regardless of the loopy quantity is? Which is whereas nonetheless, however then, you realize, then she left.”
Stratus and Mone had a quick interplay within the first-ever girls’s Royal Rumble match in 2018, and have been tag group companions on an episode of “WWE Uncooked” later that yr. Whereas she confronted fellow members of the 4 Horsewomen, like Lynch and Charlotte Aptitude, Stratus’s singles match with Mone by no means materialized. Now that Mone is a part of AEW, Stratus was requested if the long-awaited dream match might occur if the proper provide got here in. Stratus shot down these rumors, pledging her loyalty to WWE.
“I am WWE, I actually am a WWE lady all the way in which. However you by no means know, who is aware of? Each time, there’s a lot extra life to have and be had,” mentioned the WWE legend.
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