Trish Stratus recently made her return to WWE after a long hiatus, and it looks like she'll be sticking around for a while.
The Hall of Famer had made sporadic appearances over the years, but always insisted that she had no interest in returning to the ring on a more regular basis, so what made her change her mind?
While speaking on the After the Bell podcast (via Jeremy Lambert), Trish explained that she had no intention of going back to wrestling, but saw how interested fans were in a potential Becky Lynch feud when they exchanged words at a live event in Toronto last year.
“Did I know I was going to go back to wrestling? No, but let’s keep in-ring shape, let’s keep in condition, let’s keep on top of the product and watch it closely in case there is a moment and if the opportunity presents itself. I took a keen interest in Becky Lynch last summer when they did a live event in Toronto and we got into an exchange of words. People were interested, and I thought, ‘that’s interesting in how interested they are in this.’"
"I did a post right before Wrestlemania saying, ‘It’s so cool,’ Lita and Becky are lying, ‘they march to their own beat.’ I saw a lot of me in Becky. I see the drive, the passion, and, unequivocally, will not accept anything less than excellence. That is what I did. I see it in her. I admired and I loved that, but then being with her. They say don’t meet your heroes, not that she was my hero, I should be her hero. I was like, ‘Cool, okay cool.’ It was just too much and she was very patronizing on that end. That end note of, we didn’t win that match, for whatever reason, and she was like, ‘It’s okay, we’ll get them next time.’ It felt like the right moment to deliver a message.”
Stratus turned heel a couple of weeks ago, and is expected to face The Man in a singles match at SummerSlam.