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WWE Fans Rave About New Nattie Neidhart Vignette With Maxxine Dupri

The Low-Key Legend is coming to Monday Night Raw
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After months of fans crying out for Natalya to be presented as the no-nonsense, smash-mouth, 'Low-Key Legend' Nattie Neidhart that had been tearing up the indies, NWA, NXT and AAA over the past year, it looks as though WWE's audience finally has their wish.

A vignette aired on Monday Night Raw last night showing newly crowned women's Intercontinental Champion Maxxine Dupri undergoing a torturous bout of training, which culminated with her being slapped to the ground by none other than Nattie Neidhart.

Nattie Neidhart Could be a Huge Success on WWE TV

Natalya has worked as Nattie Neidhart, Rage Against The Machine entrance theme and all, on the independent scene, while also displaying the more aggressive version of herself during appearances in AAA and NXT. The presentation has gone down a storm with fans and fellow wrestlers alike, with audiences clamoring to see this version of Natalya brought to WWE's main roster.

The former Women's Champion had been briefly partnered with Maxxine Dupri earlier this year, but has not been seen much on WWE television in 2025. With Dupri recently dethroning Becky Lynch as the women's Intercontinental champion, however, the time appears to have arrived for Natalya to embark upon her Nattie Neidhart persona to train Dupri into a true fighting champion, via a series of agonizing sessions in her Hart Family Dungeon 2.0.

Natalya has long been established as one of the most respected wrestlers in the WWE locker room, male or female. Yet on WWE television, she has often been used as more of an elevational talent, helping establish her colleagues for World Title glory rather than being positioned as a main event player herself, despite easily possessing enough talent to carry herself in major matches and storylines.

As Nattie Neidhart, Natalya will be able to showcase a grittier, more intense and relatively unseen side of herself which could resonate with a larger part of the viewing audience who are regularly entranced by believable badass characters.

The reactions to last night's vignette on Raw already seem to confirm this assumption.

Reactions to Nattie/Maxxine Vignette Were Overwhelmingly Positive

The vignette, which also works wonders for Maxxine and the development of her own character as IC Champion, drew a slew of impassioned shares on social media, with fans on X appearing hyped for the impending 'debut' of 'the Low Key Legend' Nattie Neidhart on Monday Night Raw.

@NikkieAndBrie wrote: "Woooahhh!! This is AMAZING!!!!! I have CHILLS!!!!! I need MORE!!!

Damn that Dungeon 2.0!

Love that everyone is finally seeing the Maxxine that I saw there and what I have always seen in Nattie!!!"

@WWEGP: "Cannot begin to describe how excited we are by this SENSATIONAL vignette of @maxxinedupri being trained in the Dungeon by @NatbyNature. This version of Nattie Neidhart on WWE TV will be gold. Incredible work, here."

@WrestleClips: "BRO THIS VIGNETTE OF MAXXINE DUPRI AND NATALYA WAS F*CKING INCREDIBLE.

WE NEED MORE OF THIS."

@Graannt: "Maxxine Dupri is being tortured in the dungeon by Nattie Neidhart; this is NOT Natalya. I love what I'm seeing here. Is this version of Nattie headed to WWE TV?"

@JBfromGA: "I freaking loved this! Gritty. Maxxine wants it! Nattie not Natalya but Nattie is relentless."

WWE star Natalya Neidhart
WWE star Natalya Neidhart | Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images

@SethJoseph95: "OMG THEY SHOWED LOWKEY LEGEND NATTIE ON RAW. Natalya not coming back Nattie training Maxxine!!"

@CrispyWrestlin: "This Maxxine segment working out with Nattie in the Hart Dungeon was really good"

@TiffanyNieves: "This master piece brought tears to my eyes"

@PortgasDRexx: "THE MAXXINE AND NATTIE VIDEO PACKAGE?!?!?!?"

@Artemis_316: "This is the Nattie I've been waiting for!!"

Maxxine Dupri's First Intercontinental Title Defence Has Been Set

Dupri, who benefitted from an AJ Lee assist in winning the women's IC Title from Becky Lynch at Madison Square Garden on November 17, now has her first challenger confirmed in the form of Ivy Nile.

Raw General Manager Adam Pearce made the match official last night. In storyline, Lynch has boycotted Raw following her defeat at MSG and during the women's Wargames match at Survivor Series, so a title rematch is not yet on the cards for The Man.

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JOE BAIAMONTE

Joe Baiamonte is a contributing writer for The Takedown On SI, joining the team in April, 2025. Joe has been covering professional wrestling, sports and entertainment for over a decade, serving as editor at SPORTbible between 2014 and 2018 - where he helped the team to three consecutive Football Blogging Awards - and as head of sport at Unilad. Joe has written for numerous outlets in the United Kingdom and United States, including The Sportsman, Sporf, Pubity, GiveMeSport and The Sportster, interviewing the likes of Neymar, Harry Kane, Ruud Gullit, Triple H, Ric Flair, Cody Rhodes, Becky Lynch, Rey Mysterio, Aaron Boone, Alex Cora, Chris Sale and Chase Uttley. He has a BA (Hons) degree in Journalism and Broadcasting from the University of Salford and currently resides in Manchester, England, having been raised just down the road in Burnley. He briefly moved to Croatia with his family after the birth of his son, where he spent an entire summer writing on the beach and eating squid.

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