Natalya just lately spoke with the Toronto Solar, whom she writes a column for, in regards to the information of Michelle McCool going into the Corridor of Fame this yr. The information broke final week that McCool together with Triple H are two names confirmed for the 2025 class.
Within the dialogue, Natalya spoke in regards to the struggles of the Divas Period and the way McCool actually championed the ladies throughout a time earlier than the Ladies’s Revolution caught a flame.
“Properly, it’s humorous as a result of individuals would ask me like, ‘hey, do you know that Michelle was going to get inducted?’ and I had the day earlier than she received inducted or the day earlier than she received informed the information that she was going to be put within the Corridor of Fame, I used to be texting her the day earlier than. We have been speaking about, I’m engaged on a undertaking proper now and I used to be speaking to her about our tables match. I used to be like, ‘we had such match and I want we like received a trip off of that momentum.’ We have been simply speaking in regards to the struggles. We have been texting forwards and backwards a bit of bit about like, simply in regards to the struggles that we had coming into that period.
Once I debuted, it was towards Michelle. She was my first rivalry in WWE. So it was simply exhausting as a result of girls weren’t getting as a lot consideration and the eye and the highlight and the accolades. accolades that we’ve got now. So we have been combating tooth and nail for simply scraps, actually, and it was actually, it was exhausting. So we have been speaking about that tables match and the way groundbreaking that first ever girls’s tables match was for us. Then,she and I have been simply going forwards and backwards about the way it’s so nice that the ladies get- are getting so many extra alternatives, however it was simply exhausting for us after we first began as a result of, we have been simply begging and screaming for something. In order that tables match was actually one thing particular for us and she or he mentioned and I agreed together with her it was one in all her favourite matches of her profession however I agree it was one in all my favourite matches, if not my favourite match in my profession a lot enjoyable, so particular and I’m so joyful that she’s getting inducted as a result of it additionally sheds or shines a highlight on the ladies from the Divas Period and we haven’t actually seen that shortly.
We haven’t seen a girl from the divas period get inducted in a minute. I can’t keep in mind the final time a girl from the Divas period was inducted. I do know it was Torrie. I do know it was Stacy. They have been extra from the Perspective period. After all, Bull Nakano final yr, she was from an period earlier than the Perspective period. So this truly places a very cool highlight on the ladies from the Divas Period, and I’m grateful that I used to be capable of be part of that period.I’m so excited for Michelle as a result of she was any individual that wished to do extra, and she or he’s any individual that fought for the Ladies’s Revolution earlier than. It was like we have been prepared for the Ladies’s Revolution earlier than it was prepared for us. Ladies like Michelle McCool, girls like Beth Phoenix, girls like Mickie James, girls like Melina, Victoria, Jillian Corridor, girls like Cherry, girls that didn’t all the time get the eye. However these girls liked, liked, liked wrestling, they usually have been combating for extra. So, Michelle, it’s actually cool to see her type of lead the pack on this induction.” (Transcript: Fightful)
In 2008 at The Nice American Bash, McCool defeated Natalya to develop into the inaugural Divas Champion.
The 2025 HOF ceremony is scheduled to happen on April 18, 2025, on the T-Cellular Enviornment in Paradise, Nevada, the night time earlier than WrestleMania 41.
