Becky Lynch Set to Face Trish Stratus on Monday Night Raw

No more kayfabe running and hiding for Trish Stratus. No more delays on the part of WWE creative… we think. Becky Lynch will finally get her hands on the WWE Hall of Famer tonight when she faces her one-on-one on Monday Night Raw.

Unfortunately for Trish’s protégé, Zoey Stark, she’s going to have to join the majority of the WWE Universe in watching this match on television.

Due to causing a very quick disqualification during their match-up two weeks ago, Stark has been barred from ringside for tonight’s contest. Lynch hopes that will finally level the playing field in this battle between two generational talents.

Stark has been front and center in this rivalry since she shockingly cost Becky Lynch the victory in her first match-up with Stratus at Night of Champions.

A month after she was drafted to Raw, Zoey was thrown right into the middle of the most high profile woman’s program on the Red Brand. A program that, reportedly as far back as April, was planned to reach its dramatic conclusion at the ‘Biggest Party of the Summer’.

Spoiler alert: That did not happen.

Cageside Seats had a chance to catch up with Zoey Stark during the SummerSlam Press Junket in Detroit, and while she was naturally disappointed in the decision to postpone the match, not for one second did she think it was a slight against anyone.

“Obviously we all wanted to see Becky and Trish at SummerSlam. We wanted to see Rhea Ripley on SummerSlam. But I’m a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. Hunter’s a smart man. He’s doing it for a reason. He’s not just saying whatever, you know, screw the women. He’s not doing that.” Stark said. “Becky Lynch and Trish Stratus will be a great match and it will be well worth the wait.”

WWE Chief Content Officer Paul Levesque, Triple H, was heavily criticized by fans and media alike for ‘cutting’, not only Becky vs. Trish from the card, but also Rhea Ripley vs. Raquel Rodriguez.

Safe to say the move was not popular among the talent involved either, but The Game said difficult decisions had to be made for the sake of the matches individually and the SummerSlam card as a whole. Which ended up being nine matches deep, carrying the show into Sunday morning on the East Coast.

“That show was plenty long tonight,” Triple H said during the post SummerSlam press conference. “If it had been longer, it would have been bad. So there comes a time when you say, ‘Well, does everything get shorter time? Does everything get rushed? Or do we move things around and shift it and give it a bigger spotlight?’ As a performer, for me, I’d rather have the bigger spotlight. That’s how I look at it.”

Being left off of the company’s second biggest show of the year is, no doubt, disappointing for any talent. But it’s their job to make the best of a bad situation.

Take the lemons life has handed over and make lemonade, has been the popular analogy for this situation. Similar verbiage was used by both Becky Lynch and Triple H