Trish Stratus Is Happy About One Big Change to the Women’s Division

 

In the world of women’s wrestling, there’s no name bigger than Trish Stratus. The former model was a centerpiece of WWE throughout the early 2000s, backing up her sex appeal with considerable in-ring acumen. Was she the greatest woman wrestler of all time? Well, we’ll leave that argument for the Horsewomen and Japan’s joshi scene to sort out.

Trish was recently on Lilian Garcia’s new show, Making Their Way to the Ring, talking about her career, some of her more infamous moments, and the state of the modern women’s division. (Thanks to 411mania for the transcription.)

The seven-time Women’s Champion is happy for one big change to the modern division. “I never liked the Diva word,” she said. “I never even used it. I would do my best to not call myself that, nor refer to the girls as that. There were times we had to, or it was on the teleprompter or whatever. But to me it just means a bitchy, over-needy person. It’s just not at all what we do. Also I didn’t like that it separated us.”

She spoke on her reputation for wanting to approve her storylines, as well. “[Triple H] goes, I know you’re going to want to approve everything,” she said. “He did the rolling eyes and I just laughed, because they know. Sometimes I go, I know I’m being a pain in the ass, but it’s a good pain in the ass. You’ll see. I wasn’t picky. I was particular. My whole thing was I was never going to say no. That was the problem in WWE. You can’t just go, no I’m not doing that. For me, I said no many times. But I said, no, but how about…? There’s a different way for them to get what they need. They needed sex appeal. I was like, OK I’ll give you sex appeal. Can we do it this way first?”

Of course, that sex appeal had its less classy moments. One of the more infamous matches in Trish’s career is the gravy bowl match she had with Stacy Kiebler on a Thanksgiving edition of SmackDown.

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“I was like, I looked at Finlay I was like really? We’re on a roll and I’ve got to do gravy bowl match? Did they just make that up? Is it the first annual? Like, gravy in a bikini? The clothes had to come off eventually. So I’m like, but can we start it with me being thrown from the ramp to the gravy bowl thing, into the gravy bowl? And I got my first ‘holy sh*t’ chant. Thank you for that. That was my first one and it was very good. I was like, OK it was worth having this gravy bowl match.”

Still, I wouldn’t expect liquid-based matches to return to the women’s division anytime soon, even with the spearhead of the Women’s Revolution gone from the company.