Nattie’s Dilemma

Natalya Neidhart is wrestling royalty.

The only female member of the Hart family wrestling dynasty to tie up the boots, Neidhart’s name alone lends itself to wrestling history. Her father, in spite of his recent problems with the law, is one of the greatest tag team wrestlers of all time. The WWE’s love of history and lineage alone should give her a first class ticket to success. But even if she was the son of a plumber, she’d still deserve better than what she’s gotten over the past year.

With a flaccid Divas division and no competition for champion AJ Lee, Neidhart is more than entitled to a run at the gold. What’s she’s gotten instead of plain disrespect.

If being the Great Khali’s “girlfriend” wasn’t bad enough, Neidhart got beaten in her hometown on RAW a month or so ago. Easily the best worker in the Divas division, Neidhart is also one of the company’s biggest supporters in their Be a Star campaign and does whatever she can to help out.

So why is she a jobber? What is she doing wrong?

While her signature offense is rock solid and is out of the Hart playbook, perhaps it’s time she deviated from what got her to the dance and became something different.

Well, to people who have read Bret Hart’s writing and watched the plethora of WWE DVDs out there, it wouldn’t be too different after all.

The only pure wrestler on the Divas roster, it would be great for Nattie to adopt a persona derived from her late-grandfather, Stu. Known for decades for stretching out guys in the Hart family dungeon, it would be awesome to have a real “Shooter” in the Divas Division. With AJ Lee getting some submission victories of late with the Octopus Stretch, it would be awesome to see Neidhart show her how to really “stretch” someone out.

Beautiful, smart and an amazing performer, Neidhart should be the queen of the Divas division. Maybe her ticket there is to fully embrace her roots and not just wear her family’s colors and use their signature moves.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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