Natalya wants to see Charlotte Flair show more vulnerability as a character.
Natalya played an integral part in the development of Charlotte Flair. Nattie is the person that Charlotte Flair defeated for her first championship, the NXT Women's Championship at NXT TakeOver in 2014.
Since then, Charlotte Flair has gone on to win over six championships altogether, but "The Queen of Harts" thinks "The Opportunity" would benefit from showing more of a vulnerable side to her character after being so dominant for so many years.
“The thing about Charlotte is that I think she’s very durable, and I think that she is stubborn in a good way, where she wants to, whether it’s a live event or whether it’s a pay-per-view or whether it’s a television taping, she always wants to have the best match of the night," Natalya tells Sportskeeda WrestleBinge. "I think that’s a great quality because we should always be striving to tell the best stories and have the best matches. I would love to one day see Charlotte in the role of being super, super vulnerable. When you talk about weaknesses, I don’t look at Charlotte and go, ‘Wow, she’s got a lot of weaknesses.’
For me, from a fan standpoint, I think the one thing that we haven’t seen from Charlotte is just being very, very vulnerable," Nattie continued. "I think there’s something character-driven about vulnerable. I know it’s not easy for everyone to go to that place because when I think of Charlotte, I think strong. I think she’s empowered. I think she’s the most decorated women’s champion of all time, but what would it be like, from the audience’s point of view, to see her really, really vulnerable? I haven’t seen her knocked down on her ass, where I’m like, ‘Oh my god, is she gonna get up?’ It’s a different side. It’s a different take. It’s a different perspective. As part of the audience, I would love to see her in a moment where we don’t know what’s next, a little bit more like we tear down that fourth wall. I think she’s so wildly talented, but it’s just that one area."
Natalya would compare Charlotte Flair to another generational talent, Rey Mysterio, saying that the difference between Charlotte and Mysterio is that Rey Mysterio was never afraid to show weakness and overcome adversity as a result. Ultimately, Natalya says she hopes to get the chance to wrestle against Flair one more time.
"When I look at Rey Mysterio, I don’t really think about the titles that Rey’s won. I think about these moments that Rey’s had that are very vulnerable moments, whether his son Dominik is disrespecting him, whether he’s overcoming adversity, whether he was told, ‘You can’t do this,’ or he was put down, they’re the moments that make me feel the most for someone. Even when Jimmy Uso kicked Roman in the head, I saw that vulnerability in Roman. So that vulnerability is a very hard place for people to go to. Even for myself, talking about what happened with me at Night of Champions, it took me ten days to tweet about how I don’t even know if I know how to be me anymore. It’s a vulnerable place, and it’s also a place of like, ‘Hey, I’m not afraid to say that I’m not okay.’ Sometimes as humans, we need to be okay to say that. So yeah, I would love to see that different side of Charlotte, but I think she’s amazing, and I can’t wait to wrestle her again," said Nattie.
Charlotte Flair will next go for yet another Women's Championship when she faces Asuka and Bianca Belair for the WWE Women's Championship at WWE SummerSlam 2023. Check out the full card here.
Natalya has made WWE history in her own right. She was recently honored with multiple awards courtesy of Guinness World Records. Read more here.
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