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Derby Dolls: Catching up with WWE's Natalya & Maxxine at Churchill Downs

May 02, 202515 min
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Join WWE Superstars Natalya and Maxxine Dupri as they trade in their wrestling boots for fascinators and horse racing finery at the Kentucky Derby. Get ready for an unforgettable episode where they go behind the scenes with the majestic horses, dish on Natty's thrilling appearance in Bloodsport, and dive into Maxxine's character evolution. Will these two wrestling wonders make a tag team tag? Plus, Natty dishes out some marriage advice for Austin. Don't miss this fun, action-packed, and horse-tastic conversation!

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Speaker 1

What's going on, guys.

Speaker 2

It's Austin from ninety seven to five, WAMZ eight forty WHAS News Radio and the baby Faces podcast here on iHeartRadio. I'm here at the track at the backside. We're getting ready for Kentucky Derby one fifty one. I'm here with a couple WWE superstars, a world famous Natalian night Heart otherwise known as Natali on WWE, and we got Max Seene,

both looking wonderful. I'm feeling underdressed. You guys look awesome so far being out here, Like, have you guys thought about trading in your wrestling boots for riding boots and jockey silts?

Speaker 1

Look at that?

Speaker 3

Actually, my first question when we got here was like, do we get to ride a horse?

Speaker 4

I was quickly shut down.

Speaker 2

But you wouldn't be scared of riding a horse, would you? Because these things are huge.

Speaker 4

I love riding horses.

Speaker 3

I mean these horses like, might you know, might take me out?

Speaker 1

Yeah?

Speaker 4

But I think if I, like, you know, I'm still figure out the sharpshooter.

Speaker 1

But I think if I just you hear that the sharp she's learning, well, she.

Speaker 5

Needs a little work on her sharp shooter.

Speaker 4

Just a little bit.

Speaker 1

Yeah, awesome.

Speaker 2

Well, Derby one fifty one is all about refining your skills coming out here and having a good time. Have you guys, I know you've been here in Louisville for OBW before. Have you ever been here to Louisville, Kentucky?

Speaker 1

I have? Okay, yes, So what are to be back? What are your thoughts?

Speaker 2

I mean we're known for Kentucky Fried Chicken in the Greatest two Minutes and horse which is the Kentucky Derby.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Speaker 3

I mean just being here is out of this world. I mean getting to see this sport is so cool. Absolutely, and to get to just see everything coming together is so special.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Speaker 2

Absolutely, it's great out here. It's wonderful weather. Usually it's kind of like you never know what kind of weather we're gonna get here in the Ohio Valley. Well, here's the thing. They've been pushing off the rain this whole week. It's supposed to be nasty. I'm just terrified that comes Saturday, it's gonna downpour on us all the time.

Speaker 4

So we brought the sunshine for you.

Speaker 1

Awesome.

Speaker 2

Are you guys gonna be here Saturday? Are you gonna be here to watch a Derby or so you're just getting it all out of the way right now, out of.

Speaker 5

Our system today. But this is so great.

Speaker 6

We were talking earlier about how, you know, last week we had WrestleMania, and of course that's when our entire WWE community comes together from around the world, you know, and we're WWE is global, and you feel the energy here. This is kind of like the WrestleMania of horses. Absolutely, Kentucky Derby is it's so cool, it's so special. It's our first time here, but you really feel a sense of community and family and people coming together and I love that.

Speaker 1

So yes, it's just it's just a great energy.

Speaker 2

I wouldn't say, I mean, Maxine, you're a little bit still new and wrestling. I wouldn't say there's a better partner to be traveling around here with Natalia. What would you say is some of the best things that you've learned from her? Obviously been on the road with her, You've been featured in some backstage segments with her. I know you guys took a shot at the tag team titles. What do you think is a future? Well it didn't work out too good, but you guys are still.

Speaker 3

New learned, learned, you know, I've I've learned so much from Natalia, like from every spectrum from wrestling in the ring to appearance, to packing, to schedules to literally everything.

Speaker 4

When you look at Mentalia and the eighteen.

Speaker 3

Years she's had in this business, the six Guinness World Records, the championships.

Speaker 1

The boat right, the best of all time?

Speaker 4

Who better to pick her brain?

Speaker 3

With a wealth of knowledge and her you know, she's the third generation superstar.

Speaker 4

This is not just like something she fell into. This is something that she fought for.

Speaker 3

And so to get to learn from her and to get to just take a little taste of that, just a tiny little taste, is going to help me leave some bounds.

Speaker 2

And I know that absolutely. That's great to hear Natalia. What's it like here and that you've been in the business so long? And I mean, it's it's.

Speaker 1

Crazy how you still look like you started.

Speaker 2

Since day one. I don't know how, I don't know. It's well, it's a superstar in you.

Speaker 6

Maxine has recommended an incredible moisturizer, and so we're so young, and you know, in all honesty, I love what I do and I love working with women like Maxine who you know, you bring such a fresh vibe and a fresh energy to the women's division in WW.

Speaker 5

And she's she's you know.

Speaker 6

I was just texting actually with Naya Jacks because we say Naya a little picture and Nya was like, oh, you guys are so cute together, and and I was Nya, I was like, you know, Maxine is so professional, she's so polite, she's so driven, and that's everything that I look for in somebody, you know, to work with. Now, granted we're not quite a tag team yet. That's right, showed up to TV with my my same outfit. She

was stalking my seams dress done. But I will say we look really cute and we were trending worldwide that day that we came in matching outfit. But I just you know, that's the great thing about WW is getting the chance to work with a lot of different women. I've worked with over one hundred different women in my career in wrestling, and so this is actually my twenty fifth year since I started training in wrestling. I started

in two thousand. That was my very first like time in the setting foot in the dungeon and learning how to do this, and so I've worked with so many great people from around the world, and I'm just I'm very, very.

Speaker 2

Grateful absolutely why it's it's going to be exciting to see you to perform play off everything on camera. I kind of wanted to switch to you for a second. I've been making a lot of waves also outside the wwe went the blood Sport. Seems like you unleashed a new side of yourself. Did you learn anything from going to that promotion and kind of doing that whole thing? Did you learn anything new about yourself?

Speaker 6

What's crazy is that I'm at the Kentucky Derby wearing a bonnet, yes, and looks looking fabulous and a pair of Louis Vuitton heels.

Speaker 1

Nice. They are Louis.

Speaker 5

They are Louis, and they're not comfortable at all. But that's fine. My right toe has no feeling left.

Speaker 1

It's all right. Who needs it.

Speaker 6

But that's the thing about what I That's what I love about what I do, is that you know, I had this opportunity at blood Sport, which I was saying to Maxine earlier, It's like, you know, you can't tell the world that you're great. You can't say I did this and I did that and I want this and I want that.

Speaker 5

You have to show them.

Speaker 6

And so that's what I've done, you know, in getting the opportunity to do blood Sport, and.

Speaker 5

Which was an incredible opportunity for me, I was able to.

Speaker 6

Put my work into play and to show everybody that there is this side of me that has been awakened and that I'm so ready to do so much more, and that every single woman that's in WWE, and guy too that's in our division needs to be hungry. You cannot be in the greatest you cannot be in the greatest entertainment company in the world and be complacent. You have to be fighting at all times. And it's an all encompassing job, which is it's not just about what you do in the ring.

Speaker 5

It's how you carry yourself. It's how you look, it's how you speak, it's how you.

Speaker 6

Project yourself and how you fight for what you believe in. So that opportunity that I had at blood Sport.

Speaker 5

Really kind of encapsulated that. And there's a lot more of Natty.

Speaker 2

To come, yes there is, and kind of just branching off of that, You're gonna find yourself in the NWA Crockett Cup against ken Zi Page that NWA Women's World Champion. I mean, what do you think that would mean to your legacy and not only that but your family namesake.

Speaker 5

Well, I mean I.

Speaker 6

Plan on being the NWA Women's Champion. It's something that has a huge amount of prestige as far as you know, Mildred Burke carrying that championship and it's actually named after her, Billy Corgan has named it the Burke And so for me to be to become the NWA Women's Champion, it would be a massive honor, a huge feather in my hat and of course something that I plan on doing, even if I have to break Kensey Page's.

Speaker 5

Ankles to do it. And I think I'm doing that.

Speaker 4

Think about the photoshoot that I will have planned.

Speaker 2

Oh, that's gonna be amazing. That's gonna be amazing. Imagine imagine having a title on a Kentucky Derby horse.

Speaker 1

How cool would that be?

Speaker 2

Very pretty great answer, Natty, I'm gonna switch over to you, Maxine, because I mean, just hearing all of that, the things that you can accomplish, I'm very inspiring. I'm a really big fan of you. I know you probably faced some online criticism, words from outside that you can't control. I think that you've grown a lot over your career and especially your promo coming out after WrestleMania, and unfortunately, guys,

it was great. I was sitting there texting my co host Billy, going, Dude, Maxine is killing it right now, you can.

Speaker 1

Totally tell it.

Speaker 2

How would you say that you're Eric, Well, thank you so much. How would you say, I'm ax Seeing that your character kind of has evolved over the last year. I know that you've been honing your skills kind of differences. Can you tell from now from where you started?

Speaker 3

You know, I think I'm just a lot more comfortable in my skin, just with time and really just putting in the works. It's been a journey. This has not just been something that like I fell into it. It's taken a lot of work and a lot of consistency. And I just think the more people I'm with that I get to learn from. Otis Tizawa, Natalia, he who shall not be names, little Tall Latte.

Speaker 2

Okay, he's two other people now right, we don't know.

Speaker 3

We don't know, no free policity, no free publicity. Anyways, My point being, I really try and be a sponge and take what I can get.

Speaker 4

From each person and apply it to my craft.

Speaker 3

And I just it feels really really good to go out there and feel comfortable in my own skin and get to learn and evolve in front of the DOTA.

Speaker 1

Sure.

Speaker 2

Sure, your connection with the fans means everything how you present yourself on TV. And it feels like you have absolutely been able to connect with the fans. You've been getting people interested in you. What do you think some of the next big milestone. We're not to shove everything in there as much as we can. Well, looking into next year. We just left WrestleMania forty one in Vegas. Where do you hope to be this time next year?

Speaker 3

After WrestleMania, I've got my eyes on a couple things, you know.

Speaker 4

I think the Dungeon Dolls would just look perfect.

Speaker 1

I love that name with.

Speaker 4

The Women's Tag Team.

Speaker 1

Championship, Yeah, I love that name.

Speaker 4

That would be so good that I could see. Yes.

Speaker 3

Now, I also have my eye on something that I know in Italia also has her eye on, and that's the Woman's Intercontinental Championship.

Speaker 1

Yes.

Speaker 3

And I also at the end of the day, I'm also here for my team for the alpha babes, and I need to see gold around the waste of Otis and Tazawa very soon.

Speaker 2

So that's in the words absolutely, I think you're deserving of it. I think they're deserving of it. Talk about having a connection with the fans Otis and Tazawa anytime they come out. My old boss Ashley, if you're listening right now, she had went to raw and North Carolina a few weeks ago, and she said, I just absolutely love Sean Otis. I hate seeing him getting thrown around, but she.

Speaker 1

Just loves the big meaty guys.

Speaker 2

Just throwing dudes around. Unfortunately, you know that happens. He seems awesome.

Speaker 4

He is a d beef.

Speaker 1

He is like a cuddly character. He looks awesome.

Speaker 6

He's a serious wrestler, like he's actually like he's a he's he's an animal in the gym, he's an animal in the ring.

Speaker 5

He's lovable.

Speaker 6

But like, I think that's the thing about Otiz is that he's very he's you know, don't judge a book by its cover. As much as he might look like a teddy bear, he's a killer.

Speaker 4

Those quads choke you out.

Speaker 1

Quad Goals, Quad goals. I love to see it. It's it's awesome. Agommery.

Speaker 2

I'm here at eight forty WHAS News Radio ninety seven to five w AMZ, Kentucky and is number one for Cuncy and of course the baby Faces podcast on iHeart Radio. I don't know if you've known, but you've been on our show before. You came on about a year. Yeah, you came in on about a year ago. We had the most generic name ever, baby Faces Podcast. Oh thank you. We've had a couple of people. Dom didn't love it. Cody Rhodes was okay with it. He said it's better

than the Enhancement Talent or the Heels podcast. And I don't think the Damien priest liked it all that much.

Speaker 1

But I don't know. We might rebrand and see how it goes. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 4

Dungeon Dolls are on board.

Speaker 2

No, that's great. We got the Dungeon Dolls endorsement right there. Before I get out of here, I got two absolutely stunning women, two amazing WWE superstars. Maxine, you just got engaged to correct. Yes, you have happily been married, semi happily. I guess we'll go ahead and say that we've got.

Speaker 6

These cats at our house that you know, they caused so much conflict and my husband picked sides and it drives me crazy because you know, I'm I told DJ said, when I'm right, I'm right.

Speaker 5

When I'm wrong, I'm still right.

Speaker 2

And well that was going to be literally what I next said, So like, as i'd newly engaged. Is a woman always right? Do I have to lose every single argument?

Speaker 5

Better for it?

Speaker 3

Letter be right, happy wife, happy life, the quicker you learn that, Yeah, the better off you're gonna be.

Speaker 2

Yeah, absolutely, I've been. We've been going through wedding planning right now, and thank goodness that my wife is or my future wife. Fiance has always wanted to get married, so she's laid everything out, everything was, everything was already planned like a week in advance.

Speaker 1

Howney, how does this sound okay? Good?

Speaker 2

And if I try to put something, oh, oh well I already got this. Okay, that sounds good too. No, I absolutely not, So I just keep She said, you just find the DJ I work in radio. I know hundreds of them. So all right, if you're gonna cheow my arm off, I could do that. What are some fun wedding planning stuff that you've been going on. What's one thing that you've been liking about the being engaged part?

I would say for me, like, we haven't called each other boyfriend or girlfriend and over in about six months, and this is only one year where we're gonna call each other fiance before we call each other husband and wife, So it's a lot of name changing. What are you mostly what do you like about being engaged right now?

Speaker 4

I am loving every minute.

Speaker 3

I'm just so grateful to be on this journey with Anthony.

Speaker 4

It's so special.

Speaker 3

We've been together for six years and we're both working for the company to be which is just like mind boggling because we were together long before this, and the fact that I get spare my best friend is something I will never take for granted. And I'm just trying to keep myself grounded and remember that this wedding is about us in our marriage, but it's also about how I look the floor of the food, the open bar.

Speaker 2

That everything goes perfectly and that's awesome. And I guess for you my marriage question would be, once again, the women always have to be right.

Speaker 6

I think it just makes and I'm not even joking. I just think it makes life easier. And I say that because it's just you know, just tell me I'm pretty, tell me I'm great, and just I could do that. Yeah, just tell me I'm pretty, tell me I'm great. I mean, there's nothing really else to I.

Speaker 4

Mean to say that that completes her.

Speaker 6

Yes, absolutely, my husband's producing my matches. Say I'm pretty and tell me I'm amazing.

Speaker 1

All right.

Speaker 2

I think that I can manage to do that if she can carry the groundwork and the mental load of everything else. If I'm there to reassure, honey, you're amazing, you're doing great, You're beautiful. I can't wait to marry you. I guess that should be enough. I think that anytime that she ever tries to come with an argument at me, I think I'm just gonna reply to that. We'll see where that goes.

Speaker 1

I like that. I'm gonna take that.

Speaker 2

We're hanging out here at Historic Churchill Downs Babyfaces podcast on eight forty news Radio WHAS ninety seven five w AMZ twin spires right behind us. I'm hanging out with here with Maxine and Natalia from the WWE We're wrapping up here now, thank you guys so much, and hopefully you guys get to have time to send out carve out time to watch a race. Maybe better on some ponies, we might have to. Oh they're so nice, it's it's absolutely adorable, and they're so big in person.

Speaker 5

They're just gorgeous.

Speaker 2

And the fun thing is is when you're like in the stands and you feel them, you can feel them coming around the track, you could feel.

Speaker 1

It's awesome. They take care of these horses very well too.

Speaker 3

By the way, me and Nattie, we usually like our money to be hanging in our closets.

Speaker 1

Yeah that's cool, but we might bet your money. That's awesome.

Speaker 2

Well, you'll luck to you guys, and thank you so much for everything that you do to sacrifice for us fans. I'm a huge fan and always been a fan of the WWE. I appreciate everything that you guys doing. Thank you for your time today, thank you for having us.

Speaker 1

Thank you

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