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Natalya Interview with Muscle and Fitness 4/29/2019
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Natalya talks to Muscle and fitness for an interview and talks of her family legacy, Her insta-famous cat, and women kicking ass.
“When I debuted, WWE was doing the Diva Searches and hiring models, and I’m like your traditional lady wrestler,” she says. “I’m not skinny and I can’t dance. I remember Beth [Phoenix] saying: ‘Nattie, you’ve just gotta fake it ’til you make it. One day they’re gonna be ready for us.’ ”
In the meantime, she endured 45-second matches on TV, silly storylines (an infamous one involved her suffering from a flatulence problem), and sitting out a few WrestleManias at a time when women would be lucky to have one featured match on the card. There were personal blows, too. Her husband, T.J. Wilson, a.k.a. Tyson Kidd, suffered a career-ending injury in 2015 (he’s now a WWE producer). Then Jim died suddenly last August, at just 63.
In the end, though, Beth was right—Nattie’s time at the top came. In August 2017, she became the first woman to hold both the Divas Championship and the SmackDown Women’s Championship, and this past April, Phoenix came out of retirement, reforming the Divas of Doom with Nattie for the first-ever Women’s Tag Team Championship match at a WrestleMania in front of more than 82,000 fans at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium.
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Source – muscleandfitness.com
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Calgary Sun/Edmonton Sun Article/Interview with Natalya – 4/25...
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It’s been just a few weeks since WrestleMania. History was made that night and one of my absolute favorite WrestleMania moments happened when my good friend Kofi Kingston became the new WWE Champion.
I started out in WWE the same year as Kofi and we were in WWE developmental together. It took him 11 years to win the WWE Championship. I asked Kofi after he won, if there were moments he doubted if he could achieve this dream or not? Kofi said, “though I have been extremely fortunate to have appeared on television very consistently over the last 11 years, I would still say that my career has definitely had its ups and downs.”
I asked Kofi what changed for him. He said: “I began to take the mentality of ‘control what you can control’ and what I could control was my in-ring performances. Regardless of the time, I was given for the match, regardless of the way the storyline was booked, the one thing I could control was the way I delivered. I believed that fate would handle the rest.”
One of my favorite moments at WrestleMania this year was watching Kofi’s two sons celebrate his huge victory with him in the ring, and Kofi agreed, “having my family in the ring with me after becoming WWE Champion was just awesome. I always strive to set an example for my kids to work hard and develop a strong sense of work ethic. I have worked incredibly hard and sacrificed so much; birthdays, holidays, weddings, weekends away from home, all just to get to this point. Having my kids in there celebrating the moment, the culmination of all the work and sacrifice, while people cheered, clapped, laughed, and cried was essentially delivering the message of ‘See? These are the kinds of moments you can achieve if you are willing to work hard.”
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Source – Edmonton Sun
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Calgary Sun/Edmonton Sun Article/Interview with Natalya – 4/18...
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This week on Twitter, @fadhitman asked me how I’m feeling after WrestleMania. With the recent Superstar Shake-Up having come and gone this past Monday, it’s got me thinking a lot about change and why I like new starts.
I ask myself, how do I go about handling so much change, week to week? How do I handle change when everything is moving so fast? Every day on the road with WWE is different. It’s not always easy when you’re in a new city, state, country, and continent daily. With all this change, I’m constantly thinking about where to get healthy food; what the best gym to train at is; will the arena be easy to get to; is the airport a big one; how hard is it going to be to get my rental car; will I find a nice hotel; who will my opponent be when I get to Raw; what if there’s traffic on my way to the airport home; what if my flight home is delayed; and will I make it home in time for my four appointments? I don’t always have the answers to all these questions but I feel like by now, I am an expert at rolling with the punches.
Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is change, and a fresh start forces us to confront change head-on. Let me tell you a story and one you may or may not be familiar with. Last November, Becky Lynch was supposed to face Ronda Rousey at Survivor Series. The matchup between the “Lass Kicker” and “The Baddest Woman on the Planet” was a highly anticipated showdown that our WWE Universe was excited for. Armbar versus Armbar with Becky being the ultimate underdog, but also the crowd favorite. There was a series of events that changed the face of this match. Ronda Rousey ended up facing off against Charlotte Flair instead and Becky Lynch was benched with an injury. I remember seeing Becky backstage at Survivor Series and she was obviously down because she wasn’t wrestling in what at the time would have been one of her biggest matches to date. I told her that the best opportunities often result from things that weren’t supposed to happen and to “hang tight because everything happens for a reason.” Who would have thought that this “change in plans” would change the course of WWE history and our WWE women’s division forever.
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Source – Edmonton Sun
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WWE Raw Results – 4/15/2019
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After Becky Lynch beat Ruby Riott in a non- title match Natalya was the first Superstar out of the gate to present herself as a contender for one of Becky’s championships the Raw women’s title and Becky was more than happy to grant an opportunity to a fellow “underappreciated, overlooked” Superstar like herself. But Lacey Evans emerged in full gear to announce she’d curried favor with the McMahons to sanction a match with Natalya, where the winner would get the first crack at the Raw Women’s Title.
Natalya and Lacey battled for the first time on Raw for the right to challenge Becky Lynch. Natalya found herself somewhat overwhelmed, or at least surprised by Lacey, Natalya still managed to muscle her way to the Sharpshooter, but the former Marine still caught The Queen of Harts with the Woman’s Right, following up seconds later with a standing-switch moonsault for the victory.
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From the moment she first came before the WWE Universe, Natalya realized that competing in WWE was a gift, one she would utilize to its fullest extent. Of course, being trained in the legendary Hart Family Dungeon alongside a few famous family members didn't hurt either.
Despite a profound desire to forge her own path, there's no denying that Natalya possesses the "hart" to reach new heights in the ring. Whether creating havoc as part of The Hart Dynasty, executing the family Sharpshooter or stepping out on her own to capture the Divas Championship, the fiery third-generation Diva has shown time-and-time again that the legendary Pink & Black legacy is safe in her hands. 
