Various: Trish Stratus on Women’s Revolution, Natalya’s Tribute to Jim Neidhart, Indies

Trish Stratus Comments on WWE’s Women’s Revolution and Upcoming Evolution PPV

Mike Rome interviewed Trish Stratus backstage at Raw, discussing her thoughts on WWE’s Women’s Revolution and her match against Alexa Bliss at the upcoming Evolution pay-per-view event.

“It’s almost like, I feel like we were always trying to be part of the boys, and try to be welcomed into this community, this wrestling world.

And I feel like we finally made it, we made our mark, we are viewed as equals and we have equal opportunities, and it feels really good. When you go into this world and you’re doing your work, you don’t know really what you’re creating, you’re creating this stuff behind you and to step away from it, and come back, and to see what we had a little part of… Amy Dumas (WWE Hall of Famer Lita) and I, and Victoria, and Molly Holly, and the girls. It’s amazing, I’m honored to be part of it and I’m excited about October because I’m going to whoop Alexa Bliss’ butt.”

Natalya’s RAW Tribute to Her Father, Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart

Following her victory over Alicia Fox during this week’s episode of RAW, Natalya paid tribute to her recently deceased father both in the ring and afterwards on social media.

Right about now, I’d be texting my dad about my night and how it all went…especially after I wrestled. I know my dad was there watching me tonight on #Raw. I did that dropkick just for him. I hope I made him proud!❤️🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/ZDQDzk4Gjv

— Nattie (@NatbyNature) August 28, 2018

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Major League Wrestling announced two new matches for the card of their September 6th War Games event in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. These were revealed to be a singles match of Tom Lawlor versus Joey Janela and a singles match of Jason Cade versus Myron Reed.

SHIMMER Wrestling announced that they are currently expecting to launch their own streaming service within the next week and will have SHIMMER 1 to SHIMMER 61 available as archived events at launch.

NJPW announced that Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, and SANADA will all be making an appearance at the September 30th NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed event in Long Beach, California.