Trish Stratus has been making some WWE related appearances lately, so we’ll get into what
she’s saying.
We’ll also take a look at the chaos going on with some changes to the women’s tag
team titles tournament, Dexter Lumis’ story, and more
Let’s start things off with Trish Stratus
WWE was touring through Canada recently and Trish Stratus arrived for a handful of appearances
throughout those shows
From live events to even a televised appearance on Raw, Trish was there for it all
Trish opened up Raw and was confronted by Bayley and the rest of Damage Control
Trish and Bayley had been going back and forth over those few Canada shows and built up his
little feud over the weekend
Trish Stratus had her last match back on 2019 against Charlotte Flair in Toronto, but she
has flirted with the idea of coming back for another match several times
She discussed how if it’s an opponent and story that intrigues her, she’ll highly
consider it
Trish named dropped Sasha Banks several times as an opponent that intrigues her.
That match itself has been teased dating back to 2018, so that is a realistic possibility
So even though Summerslam 2019 was labeled as her retirement match, everyone has this
feeling that she’ll come back for at least one more match
Trish has had several retirement matches in years passed, but always came back for another
program
And that’s what her Raw opening segment this week appeared to be hinting at
Like she told Bayley herself, she may be retired, but she can come right out of retirement in
a blink of an eye
So a lot of fans are looking heavily into that line from Trish.
Was it foreshadowing?
Will she be back in the near future for a short program?
Maybe something like we see Maryse and Beth Phoenix do all the time, where they’ll make
these brief returns for a quick program and then head off… maybe something like that
for Trish this time around
But that was the big fan takeaway from that Trish Stratus Raw promo, that we could have
a strong chance of seeing her in the ring again
During a recent interview with Ring The Belle, Trish expressed that she even has a strong
desire to play a heel again in WWE
Trish had a legendary heel run in 2004, and Trish has stated that it was some of the most
fun she ever had and how much she loved that persona of the Trish Stratus character
So in this new interview, she said that she would love to see heel Trish return in current
day WWE
Of course it’s always a little difficult to turn a legend heel because the fans just
wanna naturally cheer for them, so it could get a little hard to pull that off once someone
enters that stratosphere of being a WWE legend
Sort of like Edge’s heel turn in 2022.
It felt a bit off both character and story-wise and before you knew it, they scrapped it and
turned him back to the Rated-R superstar persona, which clearly was the right move
So it may be a bit of a challenge to get crowds to turn on the legendary and iconic Trish
Stratus, but she wants that one last heel run
Some fans even picked up on another smaller detail and possible hint from Trish Stratus
on Raw regarding that return run
Some fans say that even though Trish was focusing her attention on Bayley, Trish did turn her
eyes and stare at Bianca Belair’s title a few times during the segment
So no one obviously knows if that was just a coincidence or done on purpose to possibly
hint at Trish’s desire for one last championship run
And if Trish does go up against a big babyface champion like Bianca Belair, maybe Trish could
possibly get her wish of bringing back her heel persona and showing everyone what she’s
capable of as a heel
The other issue with a Trish Stratus return is that there’s just so many possibilities
and dream matches
Fans still wanna see Trish and Sasha.
Some fans are interested in Becky versus Trish because Becky already defeated Lita, so it
would be interesting to see Becky now go against Lita’s best friend which of course is Trish
Stratus
Then over the weekend, the biggest tease we were seeing was obviously Trish Stratus and
Bayley
So that’s gonna be the hard part too.
If Trish returns for just one program and one match, who will get that honor of facing
her in what may actually be her legitimate last match in WWE?
Very interesting developments there, we just have to wait and see if Trish does come out
of retirement because it was hinted at several times this week
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Lots of changes have been going with the women’s tag team championship tournament bracket,
so let’s quickly go over the latest there
Originally, the team of Nikkita Lyons and Zoey Stark was supposed to be in the tournament
But for an unknown reason Nikkita Lyons was unable to cross Canadian border and Zoey was
a little banged up herself, so they had to be removed from the bracket at the last second
WWE’s replacement for that team was Toxic Attraction members: Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne
Toxic Attraction was rumored to be getting called up real soon, but this situation brought
them onto the main roster instantly
It was a call up that everyone was excited to see, Toxic Attraction is such a great tag
team to call up and throw into the mix of this tournament, so it was just the perfect
fill-in
Mandy Rose was even very proud of her fellow Toxic Attraction members
But then tragedy struck again when WWE announced Monday morning that Toxic Attraction was being
removed from the bracket due to an injury suffered by Gigi Dolin
now the winner of the last chance match on Smackdown will step into Toxic Attraction’s
spot on the bracket
So it was just a few days of misfortune surrounding the tournament to see two NXT teams get removed
because of reasons obviously out of WWE’s hands
But hopefully it’s nothing too serious for Gigi and hopefully this doesn’t affect their
rumored main roster call up during this year’s draft
Maybe Toxic Attraction will make their next main roster appearance with their leader,
Mandy Rose, by their side as well
So not all hope has been loss for Toxic Attraction on the main roster, they’ll hopefully be
able to step in later on and definitely make noise in the new women’s tag team division
that’s expected to have more depth and much better treatment compared to year’s past
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Dexter made another appearance on Raw this week and it seems like whatever he is up to
is officially underway
Adam Pearce was seen backstage holding a picture that many fans assumed was related to Dexter
Lumis
Dexter would appear later on in the night with what appeared to be the first big move
of his big scheme and an adjusted plan after his few weeks of failing
A masked man tried to grab AJ Styles at ringside, but was grabbed just in time by security
As security was unmasking him and pulling the man away, it was easy to tell that it
wasn’t Dexter
Turns out that Dexter had another individual dressed up as him to serve as a decoy and
catch all the attention from the security guards
Once all the attention and man power was on the decoy, this cleared things up for Dexter
to make his move and drag The Miz out of the arena without any security guard interfering
So the misdirection was great here, it looked like maybe Dexter wanted AJ Styles over the
last few weeks, but who he was really after was The Miz
So now the story is going somewhere, Dexter has the Miz officially captive
Chances are that we’ll see some follow up to that moment and get some clues to why he
took The Miz
There obviously has to be a much bigger plan going on here that we don’t know about quite
yet
But what are your thoughts on today’s stories?
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