Trish Stratus Calls WWE SmackDown Segment "Very Boring" (WWE News)
WWE legend calls out company build for her match at the all-female Evolution PLE.
Trish Stratus has put WWE on blast for the lacklustre build towards her Women's Title showdown vs. Tiffany Stratton at this weekend's all-female Evolution PLE. The legend told Notsam Wrestling that she's been disappointed with the rushed effort creatively heading into this latest comeback bout. In fact, she'd go as far as to call a segment from the 4 July episode of SmackDown "very boring".
Ouch.
Stratus still believes she and Tiffany will put on a show inside the ring together come Sunday night, and pointed towards some shorter build towards her SummerSlam 2019 match vs. Charlotte Flair. At the same time, Trish also reckons some of the segments she worked opposite Becky Lynch back in 2023 might've been repetitive: "Maybe one too many promos about the same thing, I don't know".
WWE certainly hasn't hit repeat on the script for this shortlived issue with Stratton. Trish and Tiffany teamed up together to defeat Nia Jax and Candice LeRae at Elimination Chamber in early-March, and that friendship has been used as a sudden plot device to explain their match - on screen, Tiffy said she picked "Trishy" as her opponent to prove she's one of the best to ever do it.
It's undeniably flimsy, and that's something Stratus recognised during her chat with Sam Roberts. She really wishes both women had been given more time on TV to build a bigger story, but Trish does reckon they'll turn some heads in Atlanta at Evolution: "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".
Onto Sunday.