Exclusive: Backstage News On Trish Stratus And Booker T’s WWE Returns

Toronto got a couple of treats this week, as Raw and Smackdown live saw Trish Stratus and Booker T make surprise appearances.

This week’s Fightful Raw and Smackdown post-shows saw us reveal some information related to the return of the two Hall of Famers.

The Trish Stratus return was an angle that was played very secretly and close to the vest this week. As revealed on our Raw spoilers page, we’d been told by a couple of people backstage that Elias was going to get interrupted, but it was kept quiet even backstage that Trish Stratus would be the one interrupting him. This is a little different from The Shield’s return last week, because that was a complete surprise. Meanwhile people knew Elias was getting interrupted, many just didn’t know by who.

Quite to the contrary, Booker T’s appearance on WWE Smackdown Live wasn’t exactly a closely guarded secret like Trish Stratus’ was. From what I was told, Booker T was around backstage ahead of the show and many knew that he was going to be involved in the opening angle. I was also told that WWE hoped to leave Toronto with a couple of memorable shows that would make the market hungry for Summerslam weekend next year. 

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