Interviewed by Ring The Belle to promote her title match against Becky Lynch this Saturday, Lita compared her long time story with Trish Stratus to what Becky and Charlotte Flair have going on.
She admitted that it was frustrating when she had to be away from the ring to sell her pregnancy storyline in 2004: “That was a bummer, I was just told that’s why I was doing it. Yeah, and I was like, here we see the fallout. Because I’m like, ‘Let me at her. Like, put me in the ring’. So like, to be able to get back in the ring, and of course, Trish had been needling me the whole time in anticipation of us having a feud, but yeah. It was interesting to be like, not injured and be in a storyline that took me out of the ring.”
Despite the rumors of her and Trish having a Ladder match, Lita says that back then she preferred to not have high hopes in order to not be disappointed: “So I hear lots of these rumors and I have no idea, so, because of the whole, like, prepare for the worst and hope for the best thing, I would not give anything to any rumors. Because I’m like, everything changes. Don’t get stoked on some ladder match because it would be more devastating if I was just like going to bed at night dreaming about being in a ladder match and then they’re just like, ‘Meh, sorry. It’s a bra and panties match.”
Lita linked Charlotte to Trish, and herself to Becky: “(Charlotte Flair) is more to me like Trish. Right? Like very, like, dedicated in this way that she’s regimented and like, you know, like, Charlotte was supposed to succeed, right? Like Trish was supposed to succeed. They both not only do the work but the extra credit work. Like, they’re just like eat sleep train 24/7 right? But Becky was more — she wasn’t supposed to make it. She was like bartending in New York and had a wild journey to get to where she was. Stars just aligned, she seized the opportunity, and that’s more how I see my journey.”
H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.
