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87. Trish Stratus
The first woman to crack the list (and perhaps the only one, you’ll just have to stay tuned) is Canada’s Greatest Export to the WWE. If you get past her look… hold on a second, you don’t have to get past her looks just yet. She is an incredibly beautiful, that can pull of both sexy and sweet. That alone would be enough for any person to admire or adore her, but Trish is far more that just a pretty face (or body) she is also one heck of a wrestler.
When she first cracked the scene of the WWE, if you were to tell me she would wind up being one of the greatest women’s wrestlers of all time, I would have said your nuts. Her first few years as an in ring performer were a bit dicey but she turned out to be a very competent competitor inside the ring. Her matches with Lita, Victoria and Mickie James are among the best female matches I have ever seen. Her real strength was on the mic and as a character.
Trish Stratus on the mic is quite amazing, she did what seemed to be impossible for me she was able to hype up diva matches. Who woulda thunk it? And just as she began to get stale as the sweet damsel-in-distress-that-fights-instead-of-waiting-for-her-white-knight, she changed it all up and she aligned with Christian and became an even better heel. Her heel run not even made her a more dynamic performer but it also actually made her sexier. Her as a heel was one of my favorite things on WWE TV in 2005-05.
Favorite Moment:
Where it all begins again, interest in Trish Stratus began again. When she came out during the Christian and Chris Jericho I should have expected her to turn heel, but I didn’t. And when she cost Chris Jericho the match and then slapped the taste out of his mouth, I was stunned. It was a great heel turn and not even just for a diva, it was just a great heel turn period.
Favorite Match:
Trish Stratus [c] v. Mickie James (for the WWE Women’s Championship, WWE Wrestlemania 22 – “Big Time”)
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