Trish Stratus Recalls Never Being Afraid To Mix It Up With the Guys, Her Chemistry With Lita

During a recent interview with Insight with Chris Van Vliet, WWE Hall of Famer and former Women’s Champion Trish Stratus discussed her career, her classic feud with Lita, mixing it up with the men’s division, and taking some big bumps from male wrestlers. Below are some highlights from Insight:

Trish Stratus on Never Being Afraid To Mix It Up With the Guys

“That is my speciality. When people are like, Trish is a bumping machine. I’m like, thank you so much. I love it. I had this thing. I had said, I’m not retiring until Nia Jax ragdolls me, and it literally happened in Toronto. Actually, I just love selling. I love the art of selling. And I loved working with the guys and getting able to because I just think there’s no better way to garner some sympathy. Or as a heel, you got it, you bitch!”

On Taking a Big Choke Slam From Kane

“That was here in Toronto. I remember some agent had said, ‘You’re not gonna like this, but they want you to get chokeslammed by Kane. I know it’s your hometown…’ Almost like that sucks, right? I’m like, no, that’s amazing. That’s awesome. So Vince was so excited that I was excited. I’m like, I get it, dude. This is amazing. He’s seven feet; an arm is a foot? So that was like eight feet. It just felt like I was in slow motion, just falling forever. I was like, oh, okay, there it is. But that was quite the bump.”

On Her Chemistry With Lita

“I think everyone in the business has that person. I like to say like a Rock and Austin, KO, and Sami Zayn. That kind of thing where you don’t even have to barely communicate. You just go out there and do your thing. You kind of can read each other’s bodies, and you got to consider yourself lucky when you have that with an opponent. I just think right away we were both the new girls at the same time in 2000. We talked on the phone, and she’s like, ‘I’ve been training.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, me too.’ She’s like, ‘I hadn’t had, like, any matches professionally.’ She had had some spectacle matches. She was saying she was nervous because I was the fitness model, and she’s like, how am I going to get on TV with this chick doing her thing? I was like, how am I going to get on TV with her being that great in the ring?

“So we both had our things, and the cool thing about me and Lita is the yin and the yang of us. We’re so opposite, but yet we’re the best of friends. To this day, you know, she’s Max’s godmother, so we kept her in the family. When I inducted her in 2014, that’s when we were like, we got to hang out more. Let’s take the show on the road, and we formed Team Bestie. That was the official inception of Team Bestie, and we put the Team Bestie tour together, and we got to go out on the road and see all you guys together. But it was cool because there were always the Lita fans and the Trish fans. They were opposites: ‘Nah, she’s overrated.’ But finally, people are like, okay, if they like each other, then we like it. Okay, we’re all one big family now. So, and then the novelty of getting a shot with Team Bestie is pretty cool too.”

Trish Stratus was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2013. Meanwhile, Lita received her induction the following year as part of the Class of 2014, with Stratus inducting her.

Trish Stratus last wrestled for WWE at Evolution 2025 in July of that year, where she challenged Tiffany Stratton for the WWE Women’s Title. Stratton won the match to retain her belt.