Trish Stratus, a name that has been thrown around the Internet Wrestling Community for nine years now, a private personality with a larger than life public persona that has garnered the attention of millions each week on WWE TV.
After watching this week’s RAW I was thinking about Trish’s role within the WWE, the progression and digression. I think without question, she is the hardest working woman in the wrestling business in the last ten years.
(amusing interview with Ric Flair and Trish, showing a good side of Trish as a good spokeswoman for the WWE overseas.)
In a business that will now hire models for boring WWE Diva Contests who show know real interest or desire to have a career in the wrestling business beyond a resume bullet point, I feel the WWE and in turn, the wrestling audience, has been damn lucky to call Trish Stratus one of “our” own.
(Great highlights from Trish’s DVD, which you can purchase at wwe.com)
There is no denying, Trish is a gorgeous woman and is also considered a fitness model. However, beyond this Canadian beauty is a woman with the intellect to survive and carve a place in wrestling history, in a male-dominated industry. Trish could have easily taken the “easy” path and stuck to being a valet, as she started her career off with Test and Albert, known collectively as T&A. However, Trish fell in love with the industry that she grew up watching on television with her family and began her path to be a WWE wrestler.
Trish has received many accolades throughout her career but the most important in my view is that she is the first woman in WWE history to hold the WWE Women’s Title on six different occasions. Stratus over the years has been involved in intense and memorable feuds with Lita, Ivory, Stephanie McMahon, Jazz, Victoria, Mickie James and countless others.
Trish has also been paired up with “the boys” and been one of the few females in the business to have the “crossover” into male storylines, usually set up in a “romantic” fashion, such as Vince McMahon, Jeff Hardy, Chris Jericho, The Rock and now currently, Carlito. This is where I get confused about her role in the company, before her dislocated right shoulder injury, she was in one of the hottest feuds of her career and in the WWE at the time with Mickie James. Now, she is Carlito’s love interest and gets to share her fan reaction with the skyrocketing Carlito. My biggest fear with this, is that her character loses her spark for the sake of making out with Caribbean Cool. Sure, the little girls love it, if that’s what WWE has decided is Trish Stratus’s demographic.
More Trish Stratus analysis in two weeks where I will discuss her strengths and weaknesses as a heel and a face and much more!
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