Chelsea Green says she pitched a hair vs. hair match against Nikki Bella for two consecutive WrestleManias, and that she was willing to lose it and shave her head.
Green told Chris Van Vliet on Insight that the idea was serious and that she had put it forward more than once.
“I’m so serious that I pitched it for both WrestleManias in Vegas versus Nikki Bella. I’ll lose. I’ll shave my head,” she said.
Asked whether she would really go through with it, Green said the appearance side did not worry her much.
“I already have a husband. I’m not dating with a shaved head,” she said. “I have a huge forehead. I would look like a peanut. But my husband loves me, and he was like, yeah, do it, whatever, that’d be so cool. He’s such a student of the game. He would love knowing that I did something that would be history-making.”
The purpose behind the pitch was the championship she held at the time. Green is a two-time WWE Women’s United States Champion, and said the match was an attempt to get that title treated as something other than a lesser prize.
“I so badly wanted to make the U.S. title something special. I don’t know that I was able to do that in my two reigns,” she said. “But I think had I been able to have that feud with Nikki and shave my head, I think it would have cemented the U.S. title as something that wasn’t underneath this title, and that’s what I was trying to do.”
She said the ambition went further than one match.
“I really wanted people to enter the Rumble, and when they win, possibly challenge the U.S. title holder, not just the big daddy of it all,” Green said. “Why can’t the IC and the U.S. title be a part of that conversation? There’s so much possibility then. So I was just really trying to push for that. I was trying to push to elevate that title. I was trying to push to have people care about it, to not have it be second best. And I wasn’t able to do it.”
Green now holds the Interim WWE Women’s Championship, and said that belt does not have the same problem.
“This doesn’t need that. This already has so much on the line. Every person that goes for that title, they’re already trying to be the best,” she said. “Whoever has that title, they’re going to be on PLEs. They’re going to be at WrestleMania. The U.S. title doesn’t have that. Thank God for Tiffany, she brought it to Saudi Arabia. It saw a PLE. But myself and Zelina and Giulia, we never saw that.”
Told the hair match now looks like a real possibility given the title she holds, Green joked that the calculation had changed. “I like my hair now. I’m the WWE Women’s Champion. I’m not shaving my head,” she said, before adding that she thinks she still would.
Green was the first Women’s United States Champion, beating Michin in a tournament final at Saturday Night’s Main Event in December 2024, and the first two-time holder when she won it back in November 2025. She lost the first reign to Zelina Vega in April 2025 and has not held it since the second.
The pitching is part of a wider approach she described in the same interview. Green said the promo she cut with Nick Aldis after breaking her orbital bone had to be trimmed because there was too much material to fit.
“At the end of the day, it was real. We have so much to work with. We have 13 years to work with, and within the company we have so much to work with,” Green said. “I have done so much since 2018, but so much since 2023, like dumpster matches and every shtick I’ve done. So there was so much to work with. In fact, we just kept having to trim the promo. We had a lot.”
She said the working relationship with the SmackDown General Manager is a two-way one.
“Me and Nick, we have great chemistry when it comes to pre-tapes, backstages, promos. We love bouncing ideas off of each other. He’s always giving me incredible feedback, or maybe say it like this, maybe change it,” Green said. “I think he thinks of it the same way I do, which is that we’re not wrestling. We’re acting. So how do we make this super real instead of such a wrestling promo?”
Green was blunt about the delivery style she hears elsewhere.
“If I have to hear another wrestling promo where the cadence is so wrestlingy, it gives me the ick. I cringe all the time,” she said. “It’s getting better and better because we’re levelling up. We’re taking acting classes. We’re realising that it needs to be real. It needs to be authentic, and if it’s not, you have to dive deep like you would in acting. Come up with a backstory, create something that’s real, so that you can do an emotional recall.”
She made a point of separating the emotion from the execution.
“Yes, the words were real, the promo was real, but at the end of the day, I still wrote it, memorised it, and then acted it out for you,” Green said.
The promo followed the August 7th SmackDown, where Green suffered the broken orbital bone five days after winning the Interim WWE Women’s Championship at SummerSlam.
