Natalya Comments On Naomi’s Absence: She’ll Talk About It When She’s Ready

Natalya comments on Naomi’s absence from Monday Night Raw after it was declared that she’s not medically cleared.

WWE Women’s World Champion Naomi was pulled from the most recent episode of WWE Raw. She was supposed to wrestle IYO Sky, but it was declared that she was not medically cleared to compete. No official updates have been given on her condition, but Natalya, another veteran woman on the roster, commented on her status during the recent Busted Open Radio.

“Especially for the locker room, it’s one of those things that, well, somebody will know what’s going on, but in this situation, like, Naomi is a really close friend of mine, but I just feel like it’s a time right now where she needs space. So usually when something crazy is going on, I don’t think it’s crazy in a bad way, but I think that, like, obviously, it’s private, it’s personal. Nobody ever wants to go down with an injury. Knowing how hard Naomi has fought to get this spot that she’s in. She’s at the top of the division,” she said. “She has this groundbreaking moment at Money in the Bank. She wins it, and then she cashes in at the second-ever all-women’s pay-per-view, she cashes in at Evolution, which is a great way to cash in. I mean, every girl was at Gorilla, hugging her and crying, and every guy was too. Everybody was just so happy for her, so excited for her.

“So it is crazy, because she is so excited. As far as I know, the last time we talked, she’s like, ‘I know what I have, and I’m so grateful for it. I can’t believe all this is happening.’ But, I feel like she’s so, so beyond grateful for it. So whatever is going on right now, it’s definitely like, there’s a part of me that wants to be like, ‘Hey, Trin, like, what’s going on? Tell me, give me the scoop.’ But the other part of me is like, sometimes when people are going through something, or they’re dealing with, like I said, an injury or some extenuating situation, I feel like she will talk about it when she’s ready to talk about it, but I know she would have loved to have wrestled IYO on Monday.”

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