Natalya Recalls How She Fell In Love With TJ Wilson: Nobody Got More Black Eyes Than TJ Did For Me

Natalya recalls how she fell in love with her husband TJ Wilson.

Natalya and TJ Wilson have been a couple for a long time, having worked together on screen in WWE prior to Wilson’s retirement due to injury. Their relationship was also used in storylines on Total Divas, which Natalya featured as part of the cast of.

While speaking to The Wrestling Classic in a new interview, Natalya spoke about how she fell in love with TJ, recalling them training together.

“Nobody got more black eyes. Nobody got more black eyes than TJ did for me. Holy moly. That’s how I fell in love with TJ, truthfully, is that he wanted to wrestle with me. TJ was the person that told me to get into wrestling. He said, ‘you should try it.’ Then he was so good. I learned how to wrestle from him and so he really wanted to coach me and train me and teach me. So the first wrestling move I ever learned was called a Dragon Rana. What a Dragon Rana is, it’s a front flip onto the person’s shoulders and then you do a back flip where their head goes into the turnbuckle, that was one of the first moves I’ve ever learned and I swear I gave TJ five black eyes trying to learn that move. Every time I would hit TJ by accident in the face, I would like do the somersault and land on him, and I knew it would knock the wind out of him, but like he kept on- he was like, ‘just keep going.’ You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. You can do it. I knew then that it was true love because he was, well, he was just like, he didn’t care that I was like, giving him black eyes landing on him the wrong way. He was, he just wanted me to succeed. He’s always been my biggest ally, my biggest supporter, my best friend. He’s been the most consistent, stable, steady person I’ve ever met in my life.”

Elsewhere in another recent interview, Natalya discussed if she’d have rather debuted in modern day WWE or during the divas era. You can read more about that here.

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