Trish Stratus Explains Why Charlotte Flair Was Chosen for her Last Match
On the latest Busted Open Radio, Trish Stratus talked about her match with Charlotte Flair and why she thinks its a good choice for her final in-ring appearance plus more. Highlights from the interview are below:
On how she’s been training for the match: “So, the minute I got it booked, which was around like, the middle of the month, of last month, I jumped in the ring … I’ve been in there literally constantly since mid-July as much as I could. And yeah, I am really happy. My brain is a little behind my body, and what I mean by that is that I do something like, ‘Mmm, I don’t know that felt good or looked good, and then I watch it back, and I was like, ‘Oh! Okay.’ So your body is like, ‘Yeah, I got this. I got this.’ But your brain thinks you can’t do it, because you know. Sometimes you feel old ‘AF’ and that’s that. But yeah, I’ve been happy that I can still do this in a closed circuit setting at this point, is all I can say. But we’ll see.”
On if she ever thought she’d be back in the ring when she was inducted into the Hall of Fame: “No, oh my God. 100%, how much more closure could you get being away for this long already? Like, at that point it had been, I guess three or four years I had been officially retired. And then, having a baby, I mean, gosh. A mom has no business in the wrestling world. [laughs] Which now is hilarious, because we have a pregnant 24/7 Champion, so hey, things have changed. And then you know, so many moms, like there’s so many moms now that people on the road, there’s like — I mean, I heard [Mark] Carano was going to set up a kid room in one of the big PPVs because that’s what they were needing, you know? So yeah, I never [thought I’d be back], who knew? I mean, I really didn’t think [so].”
On returning to face Charlotte at SummerSlam: “I always sort of said, you know, when you say retirement, that’s a loose term in wrestling. But I always said that if there was something that was a, challenging, b, gonna do something for someone else, I would consider it, you know? And of course, I mean, I love wrestling. It’s something that’s always going to be part of me and part of my life, I watch it, I follow it, even if I don’t do it every day. And so, there’s opportunities, like when this came up was something like, ‘Gosh, this has to happen.’ You know, Charlotte and I in the ring, it just — it was just like you couldn’t put together a better [matchup]. So I feel like this is sort of a good final match for me, because I don’t think you could really do anything more than this. I feel like, ‘Hey we got this quick shot of you on Raw against so and so,’ it’s just, yeah, you know what, you can’t top that match that I had. That just feels like a good ending for me. A real ending.”
