10 Biggest Sacred Cows In Wrestling In 2018
9. Natalya
Has Natalya ever been as good as the vocal minority that make up her fanbase have suggested?
Assuming that those that pop during her entrance aren't doing so because they're thinking of Uncle Bret, there must be something that has resulted in the middling former Women's Champion being so often teflon to reasoned critique.
This is not to say she's not many things. It's very apparent what a figure for good she's been for the internal mechanisms of a still-ongoing women's wrestling revolution. Early Total Divas episode focussed on her in particular being scrapped from shows in favour of other less-savvy performers (both male and female) and the struggles she endured for brighter days. However, wrestling is so often about timing, and was hers just a little off all along?
Her matches are almost always middle-of-the-road in an era where the topline contests command main events on merit. Her genuinely pleasant personality presents a forced and fake heel persona, or a dishwater-dull babyface one. Dare to pull at these loose threads though, and her fans rage at the injustices as if these 2018 was still trapped in Diva doldrums.