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Trish Stratus Opens Up About Potential Match With Sasha Banks
Trish Stratus’ last appearance on WWE Television was at SummerSlam 2019, however despite now being retired, she is still interested in working with the company, including wrestling in a dream match.
During an interview with Women’s Wrestling Talk, Trish was asked about a potential match against current SmackDown Women’s Champion Sasha Banks.
“Prime or even not prime, I feel like Sasha and I have this thing that I think fans want to see, and I think deep down, I would like to see. I love her so much. I respect her as a person, as an athlete, as a performer, and as a friend. I love what she does in the ring. Sometimes you get in the ring and you notice it. When you get in the ring sometimes, you just have this thing. That’s the thing [Lita] and I had. Mickie [James] and I had it, Victoria and I had it. It’s just something that when you get in there, it’s like, ‘Something is gonna happen.’ The Rock-Austin, that kind of thing. We had a simple faceoff at the Royal Rumble, and we’re still buzzing about it and talking about it like it’s a dream match. I have always said ever since I retired was that if there was an opportunity for me to go back, it would be for something that was challenging and stimulating and something that fans wanted. Something that is exciting and it does something for both parties involved. So, she kind of fits the bill in that regard.”
Stratus was also asked about returning to WWE in a different role, as a producer. She revealed that she has spoken with Matt Bloom over possibly working with NXT.
“I would love to. I love the idea of it. The reality is it comes with the road, and I just can’t do the road because of my family at this point anyway. They’re young now. I have a three-year-old and Max just turned 7. So at this point, I just couldn’t go back on the road like that and leave my family like that. But yeah, I’d love to contribute in some way. It was nice to go back those couple of times and just work with the girls and see how their minds work and telling the art of storytelling and just working with Fit [Finlay] again.
“It got me stimulated and him and I were in like this little — we just had this little connection when we were working together, and we would literally come up with ideas….you just have that with someone. So we had that and so I thought, ‘Man, we could put some great matches together.’ We would be co-agenting probably. We would be awesome but, yeah I would like to contribute in some way. I’ve talked to Matt Bloom, my former partner, about possibly going to NXT,” she continued. “We’ve talked about it on a number of occasions. It’s just like never the right time has come about to do that. But I’d love to work with young minds and that was the best part about Tough Enough was just to work with these kids and that sort of thing.”
Thanks to 411Mania for the transcription.