WWE Star Opens Up On Creating New Character After Reaching ‘Breaking Point’

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A WWE star has opened up on how they came to create their new character after reaching a ‘breaking point’ in their career.

Natalya made her Bloodsport debut over WrestleMania weekend in Las Vegas earlier this year, with her facing off against Miyu Yamashita on the show.

However, Natalya made headlines when she debuted a new character, going by her real name Nattie Neidhart, of the ‘Low-Key Legend’, which she has since used in various other appearances outside of the company, including in AAA.

Speaking on What Do You Wanna Talk About?, Natalya opened up on the origins of the character, and how it came while she was writing her new book and reaching a breaking point.

She said:

“When I was about halfway through the book, I realised that I was living a lot of my life over the last probably two decades of this tightly woven childhood trauma where I was just trying so hard to be what I thought everybody wanted me to be.

“And I kept on thinking, even when I was trying to get to WWE or make characters work, I was like what would they like, or what would the audience like, or my opponent like, what would make the girls happy, maybe this will make them happy, this will make them like me more.

“About halfway through the book, I had this epiphany that I needed to just take a chance on myself, and it’s funny because I was saying to TJ about you (Cody Rhodes), I said you were a really big inspiration to me because you had so much courage to take a chance on yourself, and your dreams, and to do shit that was crazy.

“If you go back and watch and look up some of your indie stuff, you did some crazy stuff where it was in front of nobody, I’m not sure if there was much money involved or anything, and you were putting yourself out there and reinventing yourself in a way that was, you took this crazy chance on yourself.

“So the Low-Key Legend character, that came from the book. It came from me reaching a point in the book, and that’s why the book has so much range in it, it’s very funny but also very deep, and there’s a very deep story in it where I just kind of reached a breaking point personally like, are you gonna spend the rest of your career trying to be what everybody wants you to be, or are you going to take a chance and be who you really are?

“And it was so easy for me to dive into that role because that role really stemmed from the work I did in the Dungeon when I was first learning how to train, I always knew that girl when I first started, she had that Stu Hart grit.

“One day, it was like a couple weeks before WrestleMania, I was feeling a little frustrated, I felt like I was lost. I was like ‘where do I fit in’, because I knew that creatively Hunter wanted to find something, he wanted it to be meaningful, we talked about finding something meaningful, but sometimes that takes time to find that.

“So I just decided, you know what, you can’t just wait Nattie, you’ve got to take the bull by the horns. So I got talking and talked to Josh Barnett and said Bloodsport is what I did in the Dungeon. The Dungeon was Bloodsport before Bloodsport was Bloodsport, and Josh and I have trained together, I know Josh very well. Josh believed in me and said ‘absolutely lets do it’.

“Walked up to Hunter, he was doing a rehearsal at Raw. Everybody and their brother was wanting to talk to him. He made time for me, you know better than everyone that he’s approachable but everybody is trying to get to him. So he stopped, he made the time for me, he listened to me, and I said I would love to do Bloodsport during Mania weekend. He said sure, I love it, lets do it.”

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