Nikki Bella has revealed that she wants her final WWE run to be as a heel, and she has already begun mapping out exactly how she plans to get there.
Speaking on SiriusXM’s The Nikki and Brie Show, Nikki detailed her ankle recovery plan following the injury that forced her out of WrestleMania 42, while also sharing her vision for what the last chapter of her wrestling career will look like.
“So what I want is I want to, I’m going to take this time to really, one, mentally mindset wise regroup and know like, ‘Here’s the game plan, here’s your end date and these are the things that I want to achieve before that end date, so how do I get there?’ That’s mindset, and as far as my body, I’m going to work with Katie, our trainer on keeping my arms and shoulders strong, my core strong. What can I do for my quads and my glutes to keep that strong while I’m rehabbing my ankle. To be with my therapist all the time on rehabbing my ankle and knowing my bones growing the strongest. What I’ve already done is I already have talked to a doctor and I’ve already gotten the peptides already at my house. The peptides, he told me all the vitamins to take that will help my ligaments and my bones grow as strong as possible so I’m just going to focus on that especially for the next six to eight weeks and I’m going to get an x-ray in eight weeks. If it’s not ready yet, I’m just going to keep doing all those things, but it might be ready and then I might be back. I want this comeback to be epic because it’s going to be my last one in the ring,” Nikki said.
She also made clear that she has no interest in returning as a babyface, outlining a specific vision for the kind of character work she wants to do in her final chapter.
“I just want to do my last run as a heel. I don’t want to be a babyface. I don’t like being a babyface. I want character work. I want to be heel and if you and I are together, I want to be Team Bella. I want to do what we were doing then. That was fun. That was epic and we have the stuff that you can do that with. We have the resources and it’s very easy to come at us with things to be a big babyface. And we don’t care,” Nikki said.
Brie also reflected on the recurring pattern of solo runs that have defined much of their WWE comeback, noting the irony of the situation continuing to repeat itself.
“It was really funny because our life coach Carrie came to WrestleMania and I was asking her, ‘What is it? Why is it it was just Nikki’s solo and I just feel like a lot of it’s been like, I get pregnant, Nikki’s solo or before that before I got pregnant it was your neck surgery and then all of a sudden I get pregnant.’ I don’t know. It just kept going back and forth, back and forth of these solo things and I go, ‘And here we are back at it again,’ where it was like Nikki had her year, I come back, all of a sudden she’s injured and I’m just like, it feels like a lot of solos,” Brie said.
Nikki fractured, tore, and sprained her ankle ahead of WrestleMania 42 and was replaced in the Women’s Tag Team Championship fatal four-way by Paige, who teamed with Brie to win the titles. Nikki and Brie’s WWE contracts are expected to expire in early 2028.
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