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  • TLC 2010 gave us two. First she locked LayCool (That's right, both of them) in a Double Sharpshooter (that she later used again only with Eve Torres in Michelle's place at the Royal Rumble). Secondly she threw them both off the top rope onto the table and when it didn't break she jumped off and splashed them right through it to win the match.
  • Seeing her slap Vince McMahon right in the face at WrestleMania XXVI was just brilliant. Doubles as a CMOF for Matt Striker's Fourth Wall Leaning line "Best of luck in your future endeavours, Natalya.".
  • Any time she squats while doing a vertical suplex.
  • Pretty much all of her matches can be viewed as them. She is truly one of the best wrestlers in WWE and can have a good match with just about anyone. She even brought Maria Kanellis and Cherry (those two were bad) to good matches and really brought the best out in Layla during their feud.
  • Her match with Charlotte at NXT Takeover. Many considered it the best match of the night, and it would be no exaggeration to call it one of the best women's matches ever to happen in WWE.
    • Likewise, the match between the two at WWE Roadblock. It certainly says a lot where a divas match was considered on the same level as an NXT tag-team championship match and a WWE Championship match between Dean Ambrose and Triple H.
  • When she finally won the Smackdown Women's Championship at SummerSlam 2017, her first title in over six years (it helped that it was probably one of the best women's matches that the Smackdown brand has ever had).
  • It was equal parts awesome and heartwarming that Natalya got to participate in the first publicized women's wrestling match in Saudi Arabia at Crown Jewel 2019 (along with Lacey Evans). To say nothing of the historical and social implications of the moment, or the fact that the match itself was quite solid, it (and the accompanying commentary putting her and the match over the entire way) was a mark of respect for a woman that's played a pivotal role in women's wrestling in WWE in her own way but has often gone unheralded as NXT's Four Horsewomen and other newer stars have taken over the spotlight.

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