Trish Stratus Reveals She Has Missing Knuckles and Weird Thumbs from WWE Career

Trish Stratus may have made it look effortless in the ring, but behind the scenes, her body paid the price for every slam, dive, and chair shot.

During her interview with Chris Sumlin on Hot 97.5, the WWE Hall of Famer opened up about the very real physical toll of professional wrestling. When asked if the pain fans imagine is actually as bad as it looks, Trish didn’t sugarcoat anything—she even held up her hand to the camera to show the damage.

“Wow. For our listeners, I’m showing a… yeah, I’ve got missing knuckles. We got weird thumbs from breaking them. We have multiple nose breaks.”

She confirmed that the pain is very real—and constant.

“So yeah—it’s very real. The physicality is real, of course. And so yes, it takes a toll on your body.”

Stratus explained that by the time she stepped away from full-time competition after seven years, her body was screaming for a break.

“There was a point in my life where, you know, when I retired, I had been doing it for seven years. My body was like, ‘You gotta stop.’”

She detailed some of the worst damage she suffered during her prime.

“I had degenerative disc damage. I had dislocated my shoulder. So every—I was, I had a guy doing body work on me. I would literally wrestle for the four days on the road, I’d go home, he’d work on me, get my shoulder put back so that I could go and like pound someone for a couple days, get back, fix me again.”

And that endless grind eventually became unsustainable.

“He’s like, ‘You’ve got to—this is a vicious cycle.’”

Behind the glam, pyro, and championship belts, Trish Stratus was carrying injuries that would break most people—and she still came back for more.

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