Trish Stratus Calls Out WWE Over Major Mistake

Trish Stratus understands why WWE fans were frustrated going into one of her big matches.

The year 2025 marked the 25-year anniversary of Trish Stratus’ WWE debut during the Attitude Era. Even though she retired as a full-time wrestler in 2006, Trish has made several in-ring comebacks to show she can still kick butt.

Stratus, the WWE Hall of Famer, competed in three matches this year: Royal Rumble, a tag team match that she won with Tiffany Stratton at Elimination Chamber in her hometown of Toronto, and a match against Tiffany Stratton at the women’s only Evolution PLE.

In the match at Evolution, Tiffany Stratton successfully defended the WWE Women’s Title against Trish Stratus in a match where Stratus got plenty of offense, but was never really a threat to win.

There also wasn’t much of a story for the Stratus-Stratton match other than Stratton had granted Stratus a title match out of respect for teaming with Stratus earlier in the year. As she discussed with Bill Apter on 1Wrestling Video, Stratus understood the fans’ frustration because she felt it too.

“Fans are like, ‘they haven’t even promoted Evolution.’ I was saying the same thing. I’m like, I don’t know, do people care?

Luckily, Tiffany and I had a built-in storyline. Kind of had been percolating for like a year, and people were sort of seeing the friendship, but then, ooh, are they going to turn? And all that sort of thing, which was kind of fun. So I was like, I don’t know, I don’t really have a big storyline, and maybe I’ll just do it another time.”

Trish Stratus Was Given Great Advice By Her Mother

The WWE Evolution PLE was on July 13th, and unfortunately for Trish Stratus, her mother was ill due to cancer, and she ultimately passed away in August.

Due to her mother’s declining health, Trish didn’t know if she could have the match at Evolution, but she eventually did it because of some excellent advice from her mom.

“I said this in my speech, she goes, ‘do what you can while you can,’ and just equated it. She goes, look, if I had said, like, because we went, had gone to Greece the year before I took my mom, I just, we were like, let’s just go. My sister lives there, we just randomly said, it was like out of nowhere, spontaneous, didn’t plan it, just said, yep, look in the calendar, we’re open this week, it’s your birthday that week, let’s go to Greece.

And that was the last big trip we took, thank God, where I took my sisters, and we had that time, so, you know, do what you can while you can, because you never know what’s going to happen.”

Trish Stratus went on to write more about her mother’s death and thanked the fans in Atlanta at Evolution for doing an excellent job of supporting everybody at that show.