4 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Clash Of Champions 2017

5. Crocodile Tears

natayla promo
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Did Natalya just retire from WWE? Or was she pulling a Bret Hart by “turning [her] back” on all of the fans?

Either way, it was a strange promo after losing to Charlotte Flair. Nattie complained about carrying the women’s division on her back for a decade and getting no love, and talking about turning away from the fans (which is weird when you consider she’s been a heel for much of the past couple years).

And then she started to cry.

All in all, it was a strange promo, especially if it was a retirement speech, and even more so if it simply goes nowhere. It just didn’t feel like it was well thought out.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.