Natalya Believes It Would Be Easier For Her To Start Where WWE Is Right Now Than During The Divas Era

Natalya believes it would be easier for her to start where WWE is right now than during the divas era.

Nattie’s WWE debut came in the late 2000’s during the divas era of the promotion, and has remained a staple of the WWE women’s roster since that time, winning several championships throughout her time in the company. However, given the opportunity, she would like to start her career in today’s era of wrestling.

While speaking to The New York Post Sport in a new interview, Natalya was asked if she would like to debut in today’s era over the divas era.

“I think that truthfully, it would be easier for me to start where the company is right now because Triple H, he really respects wrestling. He loves great wrestling, whether you’re a guy or a girl, I feel like he really respects wrestlers and respects good wrestling, respects the work. I think that he’s, of course he understands the, you know, entertainment value of everything, but like, I think it would have been easier for me now to debut in this era for sure. But that’s the thing is that that’s not, that wasn’t my journey. So it was tricky. It was tricky debuting in the Divas era, but it taught me so much about grit and I turned every no into a yes. I was rejected by WWE for like five years. I kept sending in tapes. I kept trying to, and I couldn’t just have, I mean, listen- Joseph, I would have loved to have had Bret Hart make a call for me. I would have given anything to be like, ‘Bret, just call someone’, you know? They couldn’t at the time. Bret wasn’t on good terms with them at the time. I couldn’t, you know, my dad wasn’t on, like he wasn’t on bad terms, but he didn’t have that relationship with anybody in the company. We didn’t have any family that was working there that could just make a call. My life would have been so much easier if family members could have made that call.”

Fightful also recently interviewed Natalya. You can read more about that here.

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