With no full audience for WWE shows at the Performance Center, wrestlers have been a lot more vocal in the ring. Vince McMahon said during the recent quarterly financials call that wrestlers would have to "put the bad mouth" on opponents to add some audio to the matches.
Natalya has been in a handful of empty arena matches over the past two months, and she has a tried and true trash-talking word to let everyone know that she means business.
"When we're performing, we're performing for no fans, you don't realize that now we actually have to talk, we have to do a monologue in the ring because we don't have -- we have Performance Center students there now -- but we didn't have anyone. You're just wrestling and remembering what you had for the match, but you also have to be really vocal. I remember wrestling Liv Morgan at WrestleMania and being like, 'I have to do the match but also talk a bunch of smack to her,' and the only word that I know is 'Bitch.' I said 'Bitch' like 12 times," joked Natalya during the WWE Evolution watch along.
The rest of the panel laughed and called Natalya out on it being the only word she knows.
I was being sarcastic when I said that’s the only word I know-- geeeeez
— NattieByNature (@NatbyNature) June 10, 2020
Ruby Riott jumped in to say Natalya would always call her a "bitch" during matches at live events and would follow it with a slap to the face every time, saying it would hurt.
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