{"id":325898,"date":"2025-12-05T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325898\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:10:07","slug":"backstage-news-regarding-wwes-plans-for-natalya-heading-into-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325898\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstage news regarding WWE&#8217;s plans for Natalya heading into 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen during the December 1st 2025 edition of WWE RAW, Natalya was featured in a training video package for women\u2019s Intercontinental champion Maxxine Dupri. During an episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Fightful\/status\/1996657199717011729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">WrestleVotes Radio<\/a>, the following was said in regards to WWE\u2019s plans for Natalya heading into 2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to those we spoke to, we can report that Natalya\u2019s work as the Low Key Legend across several different promotions quickly caught the attention of upper management, including how well it was being received by fans everywhere, both in person and online through social media. The decision was then made to bring the character to WWE with hopes that Nattie will be a vital part and a strong part of the Women\u2019s Division going forward.\u201d (quote courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/wrestlingnews.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WrestlingNews.co<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>While speaking to Busted Open Radio, Natalya commented on the video\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the time that I\u2019ve been training Maxxine (Dupri)\u2026 what we do in The Dungeon, that\u2019s not Natalya training. That\u2019s Nattie training and so the world just got a little glimpse of it. They got a little glimpse of Nattie training Maxxine and if you let people walk all over you in the very, very beginning, they will be doing it for your entire career, and so I really wanted Maxxine to understand that\u2026 If we see Nattie in a WWE ring \u2014 you guys saw a little taste of it but, if Nattie gets to a WWE ring, there\u2019s gonna be a lot of receipts.\u201d (quote courtesy of Fightful.com)<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AWESOME vignette of Maxxine training with Nattie in the Hart Dungeon!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWERAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WWERAW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sbGtBayNEI\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/sbGtBayNEI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Movement \u2013 Pro Wrestling (@TheMovementXx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMovementXx\/status\/1995672739609461208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As seen during the December 1st 2025 edition of WWE RAW, Natalya was featured in a training video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,45381],"class_list":["post-325898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-natalya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}