Natalya looks back on her NXT run in 2022.
During a recent interview with Spencer Love of Love Wrestling, Natalya spoke about getting to work with Cora Jade in NXT last year. Nattie called that storyline her personal highlight of the last year and said she sees big things in Cora’s future.
“[She’s] a bit more of a bad girl, Cora, but I think my favorite thing that I did in 2022 was that storyline with Cora. It was so much fun. She wanted to soak up as much information as she could. She was really a pleasure to work with, and I loved our program together. It was so much fun,” Nattie said, “and I think that there’s a lot of great things to come for her in the future, too. I think she’s a student of the game. She is also somebody that I pointed to in the crowd! She has this photo of us that we took a selfie in the audience, and she like made it. So, it’s really cool again, like Roxy, Cora’s a fan. She’s a fan, she loves this, and she’s here. She made it. Cora and Roxy are a great message to little girls, and guys, everywhere, that you can have big dreams and you can accomplish them. You can achieve them. With hard work, dedication, and not ever taking no for an answer, you can achieve your dreams.”
Natalya also spoke about having a run-in with Roxanne Perez before she became a wrestler. The moment was captured on Total Divas, showing a then-unknown Roxanne meeting Nattie at a live event.
“Roxanne, it’s funny, she was a fan! I was walking into a live event, and she was there and she was just like, so cute. She just asked this question about ‘what do I need to do to be a diva?’ It was during the Divas era, of course. That’s when we were all called Divas. We weren’t allowed to be called women wrestlers, even though now we’re referred to as
Superstars,” Natalya explained. “Roxy is so sweet. I feel like she’s very hard-working, and she genuinely loves wrestling. She genuinely loves WWE. She genuinely loves the industry. She also came from a really good upbringing. She worked with Booker T, and you can see her progress and her growth. Every time I see Roxy on NXT, I just see that she gets more and more confident. She’s actually trained with us a little bit in the Dungeon, too! She’s very hard-working, and she’s a good person. I think that’s one thing that the audience really can resonate with Roxy is that she’s very genuine.”
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