Nikki Bella made her shock return to WWE throughout the 2025 ladies’s Royal Rumble match.
Bella, 41, was the thirtieth and closing entrant within the excessive rope battle royal at Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday, February 1.
The wrestler entered the ring carrying her iconic outfit that includes her backwards crimson hat. As soon as within the ring, Nikki joined forces along with her fellow wrestlers in an try to throw Nia Jax out of the ring. (To no avail — Jax threw 9 wrestlers off of her at one time, as one does.)
Nia in the end eradicated Nikki, earlier than Charlotte Aptitude took the crown because the 2025 Royal Rumble champion and secured herself a ticket to this 12 months’s Wrestlemania in Las Vegas, Nevada
The match marked Bella’s first in-ring look since she was a shock entrant within the 2022 ladies’s Royal Rumble match. She and her twin sister, Brie, formally retired from full-time wrestling motion in 2019.
Nevertheless, Nikki lately informed Us Weekly that she was itching to get again contained in the squared circle after making an look at WWE Uncooked’s debut on Netflix on January 6.
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“I’ve missed it for fairly a number of years,” Nikki stated in an interview printed Wednesday, January 29. “I miss being Nikki Bella. I miss being round that household. I undoubtedly miss being in that ring. After they put me within the crowd that night time and to really feel the power and see the Bella Military, whether or not they have been within the crowd or on-line, it begins to present you these feels.”
Nikki Bella competes within the ring towards Natalya Moon throughout 2018 the WWE Stay Present Marc Pfitzenreuter/Getty Photos
Nikki added, “Going house to WWE, I don’t suppose folks perceive, I began at 22. That’s all I ever knew up till a bit of bit in the past. So, that’s been the largest house for me and to return and be house and the setting there may be so unbelievable. The ladies have been simply, what an important locker room. They have been simply so superior and collectively and one and unity and everybody again there was simply so blissful. You might inform the power there proper now’s simply unbelievable.”
When Nikki was ringside for the Netflix debut earlier this month, she defined the way it gave her an appreciation for the glass ceilings she and Brie have been capable of break.
“I’m like, ‘That is why we paved roads on this business,’” Nikki gushed. “I really feel so blessed to return and expertise it. I’m like, ‘OK, I feel I must expertise this extra.’ I actually like it. I really feel like I’ve nonetheless bought it, so we’ll see.”
Nikki even hinted that she would possibly have the ability to persuade her sister to hitch her within the ring once more quickly.
“Once I went and I got here again, I used to be like, ‘Brie, it’s so wonderful,’” Nikki stated. “So perhaps we should always make a comeback. She’s so in mother mode, however Brie has that fireside in her, too. She has that final run. I really feel prefer it wouldn’t take lots to get her to come back again with me.”
Brie and husband Bryan Danielson, a former WWE star who’s at the moment on the All Elite Wrestling roster, share two youngsters: daughter Birdie, 7, and son Buddy, 4.
Nikki shares son Matteo, 4, along with her ex husband, Artem Chigvintsev.
Whereas she’s targeted on being a “nice mother,” Nikki is happy to point out her son that she doesn’t match into one field.
“[I want to] additionally present my son how wonderful it’s that ladies can do all these unbelievable issues,” she stated, “whether or not that’s kicking butt within the ring, operating a boardroom, being wonderful in school.”
