During a recent appearance on Busted Open Radio, WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus discussed her recent return to WWE following her retirement in 2006.
Stratus competed in a Six-Woman Tag Team match at WrestleMania 39 and later turned heel on Lita and Becky Lynch. She said,
“I’m constantly proving myself to myself. And when I got the call to do WrestleMania, that was fun. It was fun to be in that capacity to do it at that level and at that stage. I’m all about layers and it was like, I hadn’t dipped into this territory again, you know, for a long time. And it was like, can I do this? And when I did it, I loved it. To be able to go back to this capacity, it felt like it’s fun and it’s a good story. I think it’s interesting. I always say whenever I went back, it has to check a few boxes. Like, is it interesting? Is it challenging for myself? Will the fans be intrigued by it? Will it tell something different than we’ve told before, a story that’s different than we’ve told before?”
On the latest episode of his Kliq This podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash criticized Cody Rhodes for continuing to reference his shocking loss to Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 39 (Night Two) in his promos.
According to Nash, Rhodes is gambling with his momentum by doing so. Nash said,
“We have a situation where there’s verbiage and Brock comes down in a fucking duster cowboy hat. So if we go back to the Raw after Mania, Brock jumped Cody and beat him for eight minutes. Cody comes down, and he’s not medically cleared because of the beating that Brock gave him, but wants a piece of him, and for that, they send 25 security guys in waves, not one of them bigger than Cody. I know it’s a babyface thing… he wants his pound of flesh, he wants his revenge. But he keeps making reference to the fact that he didn’t win at WrestleMania. That’s absolutely evident since you don’t have a belt. You don’t have to bring it up every week that you didn’t win at WrestleMania. I get it. People are still with you. Don’t lose them. But don’t do this. Don’t walk to the hard camera after Brock leaves and all the smoke is cleared and say, ‘You’re no cowboy, Brock Lesnar, because I know a cowboy…what you are is a coward.’ Now, I don’t know. I just thought that he didn’t have knee pads on. It’s like, don’t tell me that you guys aren’t going. It’s not booked to go. He got in Roman’s face in a three-piece suit, Roman was in a track suit and tennis shoes. I knew that wasn’t going nowhere. Nobody is stupid enough to tear up a $2,000 suit to make it be more realistic.”
