WWE legend recalls how Natalya saved her during embarrassing moment in historic match

Modified Feb 14, 2025 02:00 GMT

A WWE legend recalled one of her historic matches, which also involved Natalya. She recounted how the veteran saved the match and the finish.

Michelle McCool wrestled for WWE from 2004 to 2011. During this time, she was involved in many iconic moments in the ring. One of those moments was when she competed in the first-ever women's tables match. She teamed up with Layla to face Natalya and Beth Phoenix at WWE TLC 2010.

However, the historic match had an embarrassing botch when the table wouldn't break, even after Nattie slammed Michelle McCool and Layla onto it. Nevertheless, the WWE veteran used her quick wits and dived onto both of them to finally break the table and secure the victory for her team.

During a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet, Michelle recalled how somebody thought the table would break, but it didn't. Fortunately, Nattie was on the turnbuckle and in a position to save the finish.

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“1000% I was proud of that Tables match. It was not only the first, it was fun. Earlier in the day, we were walking up the ramp, and I remember somebody saying, 'The table is fine, it’s gonna break. There’s two of them, right? There’s Layla and Michelle.' Yeah, no problem. That sucker did not break. Table would not put us over, didn’t like us either. So we hit, and I’m like, oh gosh. I look back up, and I'm like, 'Nattie, climb back up!' and it couldn’t have turned off better with her going back up for the second time. But yeah, that was a big moment.” [21:58 - 22:35]

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