Trish Stratus is going for her first singles championship in 18 plus years this Sunday at Evolution. She will be lookin to capture her eighth title reign as she faces Tiffany Stratton for the WWE Women’s Championship.
For some, the build for Evolution has been lackluster, including to Stratus herself. However, she is focusing on what she can do in the match, and that is the part of all of this that she can control. She spoke recently to Sam Roberts on his Notsam Wrestling podcast on the build for Evolution and her opponent this Sunday, Tiffany Stratton.
WWE has been having a lot of shows to build around their normal PLE schedule. This has caused a lot of shows to not get the proper build with one on top of each other just a matter of a couple weeks apart. Stratus discusses this topic and says fortunately there is a history between herself and Stratton.
“Unfortunately, yes it is — this entire (Evolution) card has seemed to be a quick turnaround as it is unfortunately and I get it, there’s like 7,000 events a month, it seems like (she laughed). But I think there’s a little bit of a built-in storyline luckily for Tiffany (Stratton) and I. I love the fact that we had this connection and I think people really were digging the Trishy Time/Tiffy Time thing so I think that worked really well. But, people were seeing the parallels. There’s these two blondes who came into the business and preconceived notion on what they can deliver in the ring and having to prove (themselves) and knowing you might think that this is what you think you’re gonna get from me in the ring but now I have to work extra hard because I have to prove those people all wrong so we both have had to do that, and had great success early on in our career. She’s been champion at 25, and I know a certain someone who became champion for the first time at 25 as well… And luckily I say, there’s a bit of a built-in storyline so yeah, the whole Evolution kind of came about quite quickly for everyone but, I think it’s a little bit of that fantasy-booking and seeing Tiff and I in there, I think people wanted it and I think it’s really gonna deliver. I know it’s gonna deliver…” (Fightful/Transcript)
Stratus recalls her feud with Becky Lynch having moments where things were cut due to time and even her match with Charlotte Flair at SummerSlam in 2019 didn’t get the build she believes it should have.
“Yes, 1,000 percent (my brain switches to wrestling mode whenever I come back) and there’s a little bit of a saying, like, ‘You can only control what you can control.’ Do I wish there was a bigger build? Do I wish we had a longer segment? Do I wish we didn’t have a very boring segment last week on SmackDown? Sure (she laughed). But, it is what it is. You get your time, you do your thing and sometimes things get thrown together. It is what it is, right? To me, the thing I control is the match. I will control the match, we will control the match. We will tell the story, we’ll control the narrative and that’s where I know I can do the work… There was moments in Becky and I’s feud where people did go on a little bit longer than maybe people liked. Maybe one too many promos about the same thing. I don’t know, maybe. That might have happened. But at the end of the day, it was we knew we had to deliver that match… We’re remembering the rivalry and the chemistry and what we brought in the match and so… Yes, it (was thrown) together. We got a two-week — what is it? 10-day build?… I thought Charlotte (Flair) and I had a short build but again, it was great for the moment…”
Evolution will air this Sunday on July 13 at 7 PM ET. It will stream in the United States on Peacock and Internationally on Netflix.