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Post by coleslaw on May 28, 2023 12:36:58 GMT -5
I was happy to see it because Natalya personally cut me off in traffic the other day. Get blasted
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Post by mrtuesday on May 28, 2023 12:54:21 GMT -5
Man people realy dont like Natalya at all do they? It's not that, necessarily. She's been with WWE for 15 years with no major change to her character. No major break in her run. No one has had any time to miss her. She's in the same boat as people like Tamina or Dolph Zigler. If another era, they would have gone somewhere else and be back by now. A change of scenery. A change of audience. Some kind of major change to freshen them up. But instead they stayed and never grew as performers. Take a look at someone like Cody. He left. He rebuilt his character from the ground up snd now is a major player. Look at Asuka. She took some time off and came back with a new (to WwE) look and it refreshed her. And that's with Asuka being older than Natalya. Nattie's just been around too long and dropped the ball so many times that no one cares about her anymore. Did anyone really thing she wqs going to beat Rhea? Does anyone actually think she can be a major player in WWE with her current persona? No. No one does. Natalya needs major time away from WWE and a completely new personality to even be taken seriously. And neither of those things are ever going to happen. |
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Post by Ben Wyatt on May 28, 2023 12:56:20 GMT -5
Man people realy dont like Natalya at all do they? It's not that, necessarily. She's been with WWE for 15 years with no major change to her character. No major break in her run. No one has had any time to miss her. She's in the same boat as people like Tamina or Dolph Zigler. If another era, they would have gone somewhere else and be back by now. A change of scenery. A change of audience. Some kind of major change to freshen them up. But instead they stayed and never grew as performers. Take a look at someone like Cody. He left. He rebuilt his character from the ground up snd now is a major player. Look at Asuka. She took some time off and came back with a new (to WwE) look and it refreshed her. And that's with Asuka being older than Natalya. Nattie's just been around too long and dropped the ball so many times that no one cares about her anymore. Did anyone really thing she wqs going to beat Rhea? Does anyone actually think she can be a major player in WWE with her current persona? No. No one does. Natalya needs major time away from WWE and a completely new personality to even be taken seriously. And neither of those things are ever going to happen. This is where I'm at. She's a great hand in the ring. She's very well respected and liked by her peers. By all accounts, she's a great person. I'm just....bored by her. |
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Post by sportatorium on May 28, 2023 13:49:06 GMT -5
Making them fly to KSA for that match was stupid. That was a TV match through and through. Mattie's best use is to be a gatekeeper for rising talent. She's become a local woman when it comes to face & heel turns so she can just give great matches to whoever needs the rub and put them over. Rhea is arguably the most over woman in the company and certainly doesn't need Nattie at this point.
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Post by 4real on May 28, 2023 15:36:58 GMT -5
Her birthday present was a holiday (sort of), a pay day and barely having to wrestle. Could have been worse I guess.
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Post by mrbananagrabber on May 28, 2023 16:00:56 GMT -5
Tell you what, when it comes to “job face” Nattie sure doesn’t have one. She walked out there like she’d won the lottery.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 28, 2023 16:13:50 GMT -5
I am kind of fine with Rhea getting softballs right now.
I like Nattie and feel like she could have got an actual match, but she's probably going to be in the HOF someday, anyway, and doesn't really *need* it.
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Post by XIII on May 28, 2023 16:20:32 GMT -5
She probably went over mainly to do the hospital visits. Maybe that one kids wish was to meet Natalya. 😮
Nattie should be a tag team exclusive at this point though. Give her a full time partner and use them as an actual decent tag team. As a single there’s just nothing left for her, she’s been booking as a goober for years, and she’s like 800 tv years old.
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Post by Evil Homer on May 28, 2023 16:35:18 GMT -5
I can't believe we've been celebrating Nattie's 32nd birthday for nine years already. its her birthday century |
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Post by chrom on May 28, 2023 16:42:01 GMT -5
It seems to be a running gag that something terrible is gonna happen to her on her birthday.
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Post by asuka007 on May 28, 2023 17:01:09 GMT -5
Imagine being Nattie & Rhea You make the incredibly long flight to Saudi just to be told you will only be wrestling for 5 minutes I’m sure the massive paycheck helps soothe things. |
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Post by Triangle Lancer on May 28, 2023 20:33:39 GMT -5
I'm a fan of Nattie. Loved her since the Best Friends debut with Victoria.
But this was a thank you shot. Even my son missed it cause he took a phone call and wondered if he missed it.
Yeah, boy, she got bodied.
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on May 29, 2023 1:39:35 GMT -5
Now is the time to bring back Aliyah so she can do the same thing Rhea.  |
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Post by stoptheclocks on May 29, 2023 2:50:53 GMT -5
Imagine being Nattie & Rhea You make the incredibly long flight to Saudi just to be told you will only be wrestling for 5 minutes I always think about that, but that's just part of wrestling isn't it? The other Imperium guy went all that way and sat in catering all day just to stand there for Gunther's entrance. There has to be tons about being a wrestler that's boring as shit. |
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Post by The Kevstaaa on May 29, 2023 9:35:11 GMT -5
Everyone wants Rhea to get a "actual opponent". I will play the contrarian. I think they should avoid giving Rhea an actual opponent for now. Rhea doesn't need one yet. She's already got plenty to keep her over as being Mami from Judgement Day. They can give her these small nothing type matches against people we know have no chance and no one cares about. Rhea is super dangerously close to being OP. I'd argue shes already OP; but we like her, so we look the other way. If they give her "actual opponents" that fans like and she keeps dominating them people will get sick of Rhea. She's already beaten most of the fan favorites on her way to the title anyway. So the "real opponents" left are: Becky, Bianca, Ronda, (I guess Trish maybe?) These are BIG 4 PLE level. Don't waste them just yet. Potential "real opponents" are: IYO, Raquel. I say keep them as far away from Rhea as possible until they are in a position to either win, or where a loss won't hurt. This! She doesn't need opponents yet so save it. |
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on May 29, 2023 11:07:53 GMT -5
Ehhh sometimes title matches need to be squashes to keep things interesting
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2023 11:21:19 GMT -5
Said it already but I think WWE is booking this with the mindset no one gives a shit that Rhea is holding that title but instead LETS SEE WHAT MAMI AND DOM are doing.
It sucks for Rhea's title reign that what most interests the audience is what doesn't actually involve the title.
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Post by Push R Truth on May 29, 2023 13:54:14 GMT -5
Ehhh sometimes title matches need to be squashes to keep things interesting I'm 100% in agreement. When everything is a 20+ minute wrestling clinic then there's nothing special about a 20+ minute wrestling clinic. The WWE already suffers from lack of variety in booking. Let's not arbitrarily make it worse. |
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Post by The Thread Barbi on May 29, 2023 15:52:06 GMT -5
Why do I fear they'll "Ultimate Warrior" Rhea's title reign?
If it wasn't for her work in JD, has she done anything significant standalone as champion?
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Post by theironyuppie on May 30, 2023 9:44:48 GMT -5
Nattie's making no excuses:
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