10 Candidates For WWE's Bizarre Post-WrestleMania 37 Push
2. Natalya
Natalya knows where the bodies are buried.
Well, they're buried in catering, but you get the idea: Natalya gets a quite incredible amount of television time compared to several generations of women's talent, and respectfully, it's really quite hard to see why. It is and it isn't, actually.
Lacey Evans never looked more competent than when sharing the ring with Natalya in 2019. She is a very, very solid performer who operates in what is almost an onscreen coach role that can't help but be uninspiring. You don't watch wrestling to feel the adrenaline-fuelled thrill of...watching a talent very slowly improve over the course of several matches. You watch it as a fun distraction from the horrors of everyday life.
But you know, to Vince McMahon, there's always something to be drilled into the thick, ambitious heads of these NXT ingrates, and Natalya was on hand to do precisely that re: Shayna Baszler last year. Does the mad king even know there's a Performance Center?
Maybe "Which one's this, Paul? Rhea...Rhea Ripley? If you say so" needs to learn how to work too.
Enter Natalya.