Trish Stratus Reflects On The 'Cold Shoulder' Incident With John Morrison

[Ninja Balenciaga 8,398]

Trish Stratus recalls what happened and gives a fresher take on the situation.

WWE Hall Of Famer Trish Stratus has had many notable moments throughout her years in professional wrestling including multiple WWE Women's Championship victories, magazine covers and the aforementioned Hall Of Fame induction. Trish has had the opportunity to compete at WrestleManias and at WrestleMania XXVIII, she joined forces with former IMPACT World Champion Johnny Impact who also is known as John Morrison and they teamed with Jersey Shore star Snooki and defeated Dolph Ziggler, Michelle McCool and Layla.

All parties involved have respectively recounted when John Morrison decided to stand opposite of Trish Stratus after their victory and gave her what has been described as the 'cold shoulder'. Trish reflected on that memory again when she sat down with Lilian Garcia for a new edition of the 'Chasing Glory' podcast and reiterated that she did not return to WWE during that time to take a spot from anyone which was the reported basis of Morrison's issue with Stratus.

“So there’s like an internet thing -- the famous John Morrison/Trish Stratus incident… it’s called the famous cold shoulder incident. It was from RAW actually. So we had the WrestleMania match with Snooki and LayCool and Dolph Ziggler, and I guess it was on RAW and we won the match, we were raising our hands and I went to go raise his hand and he like threw my hand off or gave me a brush and went on the other side of Snooki and I was like, ‘Okay, that was on live television’ and it was a big thing and we had a little conversation in the back. Well it wasn’t a little conversation. We were passionately talking about it and [I said], ‘You just stole a moment from a performance. Whatever you feel about me -- maybe you feel like you’re not cool with me which is fine, I don’t mind but, we’re performing and tonight we’re partners and the crowd was excited about us as a team, as a partnership and you’ve taken that moment from the fans.' It’s like, for what? And you couldn’t just wait five seconds later?" Trish questioned, "I’m gone tomorrow. I’m not even around, and then he went into this whole thing and said, ‘Well you’ve taken a spot from another superstar by being here’ and I was like, ‘Nope, I have not taken a spot from someone. I was assigned this, I’m on the show Tough Enough that airs after this and they brought me back for that.’”

The incident led to Trish Stratus and Melina not speaking for years. After five or six years went by, Melina and Trish reconnected and with the unfortunate passing of Ashley Massaro, it allowed for Stratus and Melina to connect on a deeper level through their respective relationships with Massaro.

“So it got a lot of big buzz and eventually he got released and everyone thought it was because of that accident but who knows, whatever, but a lot of it, there was this backstory that, they were mad because that was his girlfriend [Melina] and I was taking up his girlfriend's spot and she really had nothing to do about this." Trish explained. "So we haven’t talked for years and we were fine before this incident and we would chat here and there and then we just didn’t talk and I never chatted with her, she never talked to me and it was just this quiet thing, life goes on and next thing you know, five years have gone by, six years have gone by and we reached out a couple times on Twitter, DM’d each other here and there and when this group thing came, we just said this is a chance for us to chat and we finally connected and we had a really wonderful conversation and in other words, the bottom line was, ‘Hey we’re cool right? Yeah, there was no heat ever’, and I was doing my best whenever someone was like, ‘Oh I love this underrated match between Trish and Melina’ and I’d be like, ‘I loved working with her, great girl’ because I wanted her to see that and know, I love her, I loved working with her. I thought we had like a really small feud but, it was great. It was really, really good for what it was. Memorable and I loved working with her so, I love her as a friend, she came to my studio, came to my house before.” Trish said.

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I'm glad Trish & Melina have mended their relationship now.

 

[ChrisMC 1,217]

I don’t even remember this 

[LIVin the Riott 1,159]

In a few words, this confirms that Morrison's bratty character was nothing more than his real life persona. Whew, talk about a turn off. Glad that these Queens made up at last 

[Amlex 8,986]

Melina and Trish reconnecting by talking shit about men

[Henry Cavill 8,308]

The person who stole the spot was Snooki getting Kelly’s spot in the match. 

[Katy 4,063]

I completely forgot about this. What a twat.

[HR 29]

It's annoying that Melina took so much shit for this from the neckbeard fans who were obsessed with her "bad attitude" and yet she had nothing to do with it.

Mel won with that cialis pic tho 

[Angelic 5,047]

I wish it didn't take an untimely tragic death to sort it out and make amends that shouldn't have needed amending to begin with.

But better late than never I guess.

[Daniel42 2,027]

WWE always brings back legends (and even midcarders) for a short feud or match, especially for WM. He can have this same attitude for Triple H, Undertaker, Goldberg, etc when they come back for their yearly 20 minute match that takes up spots from other wrestlers.

[Twisted Bliss 12,606]

He never should have been mad at Trish when Snooki was involved in the match instead of a wrestler.

[Gavin 6,732]

why would melina be in it instead of trish when she just turned heel 3 months prior  

[Stephen 54]

6 minutes ago, Gavin said:

why would melina be in it instead of trish when she just turned heel 3 months prior  

Like make it make sense please.

[shumiley 3,298]

6 hours ago, Twisted Bliss said:

He never should have been mad at Trish when Snooki was involved in the match instead of a wrestler.

this is what is sending me the most dkfjgfd he wasn't mad that a whole non-wrestling reality star was in the match but instead chose to be mad that one of the most decorated women in wwe history - who was there to promote a wwe spin-off - was in it? make it make sense

[Twisted Bliss 12,606]

1 hour ago, shumiley said:

this is what is sending me the most dkfjgfd he wasn't mad that a whole non-wrestling reality star was in the match but instead chose to be mad that one of the most decorated women in wwe history - who was there to promote a wwe spin-off - was in it? make it make sense

Exactly, and the sad reality is Snooki carried more of the feud than he did. The men were essentially useless to the story if we are being honest about it.

[Kat 1,297]

Truly the dumbest moment of John Morrison’s career. 

[Blooberry 423]

Dumping Melina for Taya was lol

[Day Dreamer 774]

I never understood why they didnt just have Snooki special guest ref or manage she still could have done her spot after the match. 

 

It should have been K2, Trish, Morrison /w Snooki vs Ziggler & Laycool /w Vickie

[GabeEd 7,226]

Snooki took Kelly’s spot and Melina being in that match made absolutely no sense and was just not going to happen so I really don’t understand why he was mad. 

[prince. 25,933]

I always thought the match should have been Eve and Kelly’s first big tag match together anyway, no tea no shade. Eve won the title in a match vs. LayCool & Kelly had been feuding with them months prior.  

[Vlad Cyrus 131]

if anything, it should’ve been trish/kelly (w/ snooki) vs. laycool but we won’t even start there but melina had zero to do with this lmao

[JoHnNy 84]

Queens Melina & Trish! <3 

[Jay-El 1,513]

Nobody had a damn spot.  

And it sure as hell wasn’t gonna be Melina who was irrelevant at the time. Johnny was just being a huge punk ass bitch and I’m glad he got laid into by some of the guys like Val Venis.