10 Wrestlers Who Broke Typecasting In The Most Epic Way
3. Trish Stratus
Before the Four Horsewomen and the Women's Revolution in general reimagined what it meant to be a female wrestler in WWE, Trish Stratus was considered the greatest to ever compete in the company. The compliments weren't without merit, but the journey from 2000 fitness model to 2006 finesse performer was truly remarkable.
It wasn't just how good Stratus got - because she was objectively excellent - but how little she probably needed to considering the trends of the time.
As manager of T&A, the implication was on-the-nose by design - highlighted in gross fashion by her angle with Vince McMahon a year after her debut. Hired for her looks first like every other "athletic 10" the jaded old men were told to chase at the time, Trish instead worked relentlessly to reach the level of Molly Holly, Jazz and other contemporaries that had finer grasps of the fundamentals.
She gradually became considered a wrestler first and eye candy second - creative death for most women of the era before Stratus showed the idiots in Stamford that they'd got themself a girl that could do both.