History Wrestling / TrishStratus

-->--'''Wrestling/JimRoss''', upon Stratus' victory during her retirement match

A former fitness model, Trish Stratus (real name: Patricia Anne Strategias; born on December 18, 1975 in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada) wrestles for Wrestling/{{WWE}} from the early 2000s. Much like the Fabulous Moolah in eras past, Stratus was a prominent woman in ProfessionalWrestling. She was a seven-time [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWE Women's Champion]] and a one-time [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-hc.html WWE Hardcore Champion]]. She was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013. After making a number of short and one-off appearances for WWE after her initial retirement from full-time competition in 2006, she officially returned to active competition in 2022, being drafted to RAW in the 2023 draft.

A former fitness model, Trish Stratus (real name: Patricia Anne Strategias; born on December 18, 1975 in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada) wrestled for Wrestling/{{WWE}} in the early 2000s. Much like the Fabulous Moolah in eras past, Stratus was a prominent woman in ProfessionalWrestling. She was a seven-time [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWE Women's Champion]] and a one-time [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-hc.html WWE Hardcore Champion]]. She was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: She accompanied Wrestling/TheBigShow to the ring on a few occasions. She's five-foot-four, and he's seven feet tall. Also when she was blackmailed into dating the five hundred pound Viscera, Trish was billed at 125 (only a fourth of his weight).

* [[HesBack She's Back]]: Wrestlemania 27. And she was entrant number 30 in the first ever women's Royal Rumble.

** How about a Diva star feuding with a LoonyFan? Sable and Tori had done it back in 1999 and Beth Phoenix and Rosa Mendes would touch on it in 2009. Trish's one with Mickie James was the most famous example. Ironically this case was the one where the star was the face and the fan was the heel (though Mickie was never booed).

* FaceHeelTurn: Turned heel by attacking Wrestling/BeckyLynch in 2023 after losing the Women's Tag Team Championships to Wrestling/LivMorgan and Raquel Rodriguez. Trish substituted for an injured Lita before the match, [[TakingtheBullet taking the pin]] in her stead.

* ImportantHaircut: Dyed her normally blonde hair brown after leaving WWE. Actually a subversion as it was unintentional. Her hairstylist made her brunette without her asking and she just went with it. She went back blonde in 2016.

* {{Retcon}}: Her initial heel run was abandoned and forgotten as part of the build toward the [=InVasion=][=/=]Alliance feud.

* RetiredBadass: She retired several years ago, and seemed to have become content running a yoga studio in Canada. However, come 2011, she jumped back into the fray. On top of that, she's teaching the next generation on ''Tough Enough,'' and was even able to train Snooki from ''Jersey Shore'' well enough to put on a passable match at ''Wrestlemania.'' Come 2023, she has fully went from "I am retired" to "I was retired" to aid in Becky Lynch's feud with Damage CTRL.

* RetiredBadass: She retired several years ago, and seemed to have become content running a yoga studio in Canada. However, come 2011, she jumped back into the fray. On top of that, she's teaching the next generation on ''Tough Enough,'' and was even able to train Snooki from ''Jersey Shore'' well enough to put on a passable match at ''Wrestlemania.''

* FiveMovesOfDoom: Air Canada (Lou Thesz Press), spinebuster, Stratusphere (handstand headscissors takedown), another headscissor variation and a Chick Kick were her preferred ones.

* FunWithAcronyms: Her first valet job was with Wrestling/{{Test}} and Albert which she called T&A. Then [[Wrestling/{{TNA}} some other promotion]] later picked up the acronym.

* AmazonianBeauty: Starting out as a fitness model is very obvious. This was downplayed after her 2005 injury - as she noted years later - that taking up yoga caused her to lose a lot of bulk. Towards the end of her run she was more slender and toned. [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]] also had an intense hatred of Trish, but that was mainly due to her having the title.
* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/{{Lita}}, most notably but [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] most frequently. The two actually only ever teamed together once in 2004 when Victoria had just turned face and Trish would turn heel a few weeks later.

* ButNotTooBlack: When she became a model, she gave herself bleached-blonde hair and a bronze suntan. For her WWE career this downplayed her Greek roots and made her look more Anglo. Additionally her Greek surname Stratagias was changed to Stratus.

* EvilVersusEvil: Trish and Stephanie [=McMahon=] were both heels who worked together against Lita but fought against each other on the subject of Vince [=McMahon=] because Vince wanted to have an affair with Trish while his wife was not up to the task and Stephanie disapproved. Afterwards, Vince decided Trish was not as satisfying as thought she would be and took Stephanie's side.

** Is one of the famous instances of the "Beast vs. Beauty" feud. It had previously been done with Bull Nakano (beast) vs. Alundra Blayze (beauty) - but Jazz vs. Trish was the most famous modern example. Trish did it again with Victoria later that year. WWE have repeated it several times over the years.

** On ''Canada Walk Of Fame'' she kissed Pamela Anderson in a parody of Madonna doing so to Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears earlier.

* {{Chickification}}: Briefly after her 2004 heel turn. She ended up acting as Christian's manager, and in a handicap match against Chris Jericho, was presented as a DistressedDamsel (note that a few months previously, in an intergender tag match, she and Lita had come close to ''beating'' him). Then she won the Women's Championship again, albeit having to rely on her bodyguard Tyson Tomko.

* BareYourMidriff: Her outfits from 2005-2006.

* ArmourPiercingSlap:
** This was how she turned heel on Chris Jericho. After seemingly accidentally causing a distraction that led to Christian beating him, she slapped him in the face and shared TheBigDamnKiss with Christian.
** Earlier in her career, this was also how she turned face in the first place. Having been abused by Vince [=McMahon=] one too many times, she slapped him in the face during his match against Shane.

* ActionMom: By the time she made her return to the ring at ''Evolution'' and ''[=SummerSlam=] 2019'', she had two children.

* BattleCouple: With Wrestling/JeffHardy against Victoria and Wrestling/StevieRichards. With Wrestling/{{Christian}} against Spike Dudley and Chris Jericho. With Wrestling/CarlitoColon against Wrestling/{{Melina}} Perez and [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Johnny Nitro]]. Then with Carlito against Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Lita.

* ThreeMonthRule: Turned heel on Jericho at ''[=WrestleMania=] XX'', March 14, 2004. Lita's [[{{Kayfabe}} "pregnancy"]][[note]]via Wrestling/{{Kane}}'s ScarpiaUltimatum[[/note]] was announced exactly ''three months later'', on the June 14, 2004 ''Raw.'' While not acknowledging how much time had passed between her turn and this announcement[[labelnote:]]eventually leading to her heel turn after it was revealed that she had cheated on Wrestling/MattHardy in RealLife with [[Wrestling/{{Edge}} Adam "Edge" Copeland]] and the collapse of her career[[/labelnote]], Trish pretty much captured the irony of the situation.

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* NiceHat: During her managerial days, and briefly brought back during her wrestling days till Victoria stole it. Lilian Garcia describes them shopping for outfits for Trish to wear for her TV debut - and Trish went for the cowboy hats instantly. She swapped it out for a flat cap in 2003 and dropped them when she turned heel a year later.

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/{{Lita}}, most notably but [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] most frequently. The two actually only ever teamed together once in 2004 when Victoria had just turned face and Trish would turn heel a few weeks later. Westing

* BerserkButton: When Wrestling/{{Elias}} said to her I don't date a women in their 60's and Trish slapped him.

* AmazonianBeauty: Starting out as a fitness model is very obvious. This was downplayed after her 2005 injury - as she noted years later - that taking up yoga caused her to lose a lot of bulk. Towards the end of her run she was more slender and toned.
* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/{{Lita}}, most notably but [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] most frequently. The two actually only ever teamed together once in 2004 when Victoria had just turned face and Trish would turn heel a few weeks later.

* ActionMom: She has two children.

* ArchEnemy: [[{{Wrestling/Lita}} Lita]], most notably but [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] most frequently. The two actually only ever teamed together once in 2004 when Victoria had just turned face and Trish would turn heel a few weeks later.

* BigBraToFill: Subverted. Her [[https://articlebio.com/trish-stratus [=36Ds=]]] fell short of matching Wrestling/{{Sable}}'s [="38 Specials"=].

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trish_Stratus Her article]] on Wiki/ThatOtherWiki has a full run-down of her career.

* [[HesBack She's Back]]: Wrestlemania 27. And she was entrant number 30 in the first ever women's Royal Rumble.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Lita in RealLife. On-screen the two had most notable rivalry between divas this century (a match of theirs even main-evented RAW at one point) -- off-screen the two are the best of friends and Lita was even named the godmother of Trish's son Max. The WWE finally showed their real life friendship during the fifteenth anniversary episode of RAW.