Trish Stratus’ daughter briefly thought following her mother into professional wrestling sounded like a pretty good idea. Then she found out wrestlers can actually get hurt.
While speaking to the Toronto Sun, Stratus revealed that her daughter Maddie became obsessed with wrestling after finally watching her mother compete live. It happened when Stratus teamed with Tiffany Stratton at WWE Elimination Chamber in Toronto, marking the first time either of her children had actually seen her wrestle in person.
For Stratus, that made the match considerably more special. Her kids already knew their mother was famous and that people recognized her from wrestling. They just hadn’t really seen what all the fuss was about.
“How crazy is that? Rob, think about it. Like, my kids were like, ‘Oh, she’s—I remember people—they know I’m some wrestling chick,’ you know? They know I’m famous. People come to me sometimes, they sign autographs, you know, people like, ‘That’s your mom?’ But like then they’re like, ‘Oh, okay.’ When they could actually see me in the ring, like, I am so blessed to go back that many years later and, like, actually go back and, like, have a fully functioning match, you know, in front of my kids. Not just like a little novelty match, like just full-on wrestle and let them be there, you know, firsthand and witness that.”
Her two children walked away from the experience with very different reactions. Stratus said her son Max thought it was neat but wasn’t particularly interested in becoming a wrestling fan.
Maddie was hooked. Suddenly, she was obsessed with wrestling. When people started asking whether she wanted to become a wrestler like her mother, Maddie even entertained the possibility. Then somebody apparently mentioned the whole getting-hurt part.
“And people were like, ‘Oh, do you want to be a wrestler?’ And she’s like, you know, kind of like, ‘Yeah, kind of.’ But then she was like, ‘Oh, wait, so you can get hurt? Yeah. No, I don’t want to do that.’ Like, she goes, ‘I want to be a wrestler, but, like, I don’t want to get hurt.’ I’m like, ‘Okay, well, it’s out for you then.’ So, yeah, she’s—she’s not going to be a wrestler.”
That ended the second-generation wrestling plans pretty quickly. Stratus isn’t pushing Maddie in either direction. If her daughter eventually changes her mind and decides wrestling is something she genuinely wants to pursue, Stratus said the decision will be entirely hers.
For now, Maddie seems considerably more interested in figuring out why her mother makes wrestling harder than it needs to be. Stratus revealed that her daughter has already started questioning her in-ring decision-making, including why she doesn’t simply move when someone is about to hit her with something.
“She was like, ‘Okay, so how come when she did that move, why didn’t you just roll out of the way?’ I’m like, ‘I was selling.’ Like, I don’t know what to say. She saw, like, a very—she saw, like, no filter. She just saw it for what it was. And she’s like, ‘You need to just avert. You need to avert. You got to, like, dodge and weave.’ I’m like, ‘Okay.’”
So Maddie may not want the bumps, but she’s already giving a seven-time WWE Women’s Champion advice about avoiding them.
One live match was enough to make Trish Stratus’ daughter fall in love with wrestling. Finding out she could actually get hurt was enough to make sure she’d rather keep watching it from the other side of the barricade.
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