View this post on Instagram Thank you for sharing this with me, Becky. I’ve never seen this picture before now. There’s a good little story behind it. It’s from a tour we did together in 2005 in Japan. A few days into the tour, I hurt my knee pretty badly and needed ACL reconstruction (along with tearing a bunch of other ligaments and having a fracture). I was crushed and got really depressed. Turned out the injury was just what I needed to find the ultimate motivation to get back and be my best. I had a WWE tryout a year after, and got hired. The injury was an important and pivotal point in my career and it gave me a whole different perspective, one that I carry with me today. It also gave me the reference of fighting through something really hard and coming out stronger because of it ? @beckylynchwwe @wwe #Japan ?♀️?♀️?♀️ A post shared by natbynature (@natbynature) on Jun 29, 2019 at 6:55am PDT
Thank you for sharing this with me, Becky. I’ve never seen this picture before now. There’s a good little story behind it. It’s from a tour we did together in 2005 in Japan. A few days into the tour, I hurt my knee pretty badly and needed ACL reconstruction (along with tearing a bunch of other ligaments and having a fracture). I was crushed and got really depressed. Turned out the injury was just what I needed to find the ultimate motivation to get back and be my best. I had a WWE tryout a year after, and got hired. The injury was an important and pivotal point in my career and it gave me a whole different perspective, one that I carry with me today. It also gave me the reference of fighting through something really hard and coming out stronger because of it ? @beckylynchwwe @wwe #Japan ?♀️?♀️?♀️
A post shared by natbynature (@natbynature) on Jun 29, 2019 at 6:55am PDT
Who'd have thought that Natalya's WWE career would have been so defined by an injury that seemed to limit her opportunities at the time.
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