6 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (12 June - Review)

5. Does Anyone Care?

Byron Saxton Natalya
WWE

It’s really sad to say this, but Natalya’s 30-second backstage segment was 30 seconds that could have been axed without a second thought.

You’d think that WWE would be applauded for at least giving the long-tenured superstar follow-up to her recent string of losses, but the truth is that she has been barely portrayed as little more than a jobber to the stars recently with no personality or character, so her “acting” and lamenting that she doesn’t know “how to be me anymore” was just awful.

It really is a shame, because Nattie is probably the type who is really well-respected and loved backstage, but her character generates zero response. Her existential crisis was met with a shrug by both Byron Saxton and fans alike, and that’s just terrible.

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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.