Earlier this year Nikki Bella reunited with her sister Brie during the women’s Royal Rumble match, and The Bella Twins seemed poised to take over the women’s tag team division in WWE. Unfortunately for Nikki, she suffered an ankle injury weeks before WrestleMania, and Paige ended up stepping in to replace her in the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship match at WrestleMania 42.
Nikki Bella has been out of action for months now, but she recently revealed during an episode of The Nikki & Brie Show live at Fanatics Fest that she’s been visiting the WWE Performance Center as she works toward getting cleared.
“I’m excited to come back. I’ve been working hard. It’s been three months since surgery. I was squatting at two. The bones were so broken and they’re like, ‘You’re fine.’ I’m like, ‘Alright.’ They’re like, ‘Just go up and down.’ I’m like, ‘Alright, up and down…’
“When I went to the PC to get cleared, they’re like, ‘You look like a Nike commercial.’ Because everything, like, if they wanted me to sprint, it was 110 percent sprinting and just doing all the things because I wanted to prove how good I was. Like, jumping high. But then it was funny because they go, ‘Okay, now go to the top turnbuckle and just like jump in the middle.’ Because they wanted to see how much that messed me up a little bit. Like I got up there and I’m like, ‘No, I’m going to break my ankle again.’ I’m like, ‘If I re-break my ankle…’ but I was good. I was good.”
Paige & Brie Bella recently lost the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship when they dropped the belts to Lainey Reid & Fallon Henley at Saturday Night’s Main Event. With Paige & Brie no longer holding championship gold it will be interesting to see how things play out when Nikki eventually returns.
Stay tuned for updates.