Nikki Bella On Wanting To Reach The Same Level As John Cena And The Rock

Nikki Bella is one of WWE’s most recognizable stars. She’s a former WWE Divas Champion, and she’s also been featured on TV quite a bit as of late thanks to Dancing With The Stars, Total Bellas and Total Divas.

Nikki hasn’t wrestled a match since she teamed up with John Cena to take on The Miz and Maryse at WrestleMania 33, and due to her neck injury it seems unlikely that she’ll ever be a full time wrestler again.

However, even though Nikki’s body isn’t in any condition to be wrestling full time, she recently told Rolling Stone that she aspires to reach the same level as John Cena and The Rock.

“Through my neck injury, a lot of people have said, “You’ve done all you can do.” But in my heart, I truly don’t [think I have]. There’s so much more to do, so many more women to empower and uplift. I never want to walk away and be like, “I did all I can.” Women have such a far way to go in WWE until we truly are where we could be. I’ve yet to hit the level of where my fiancée John [Cena] is at, or even the Rock, and I would love to be the first female to do that.”

When asked to clarify whether she’s trying to reach the same status with WWE or outside of WWE, she said that she will never turn her back on WWE, but she wants to find success in the mainstream world as well.

“It’s kind of both. When you can be that character that comes in for WrestleMania knowing you are gonna headline, and when you are the guys that go out into this mainstream world and people automatically know, “Oh, the WWE person, they can host the ESPYs or Teen Choice,” and Brie and I are on our way there but not quite there. WWE will always be my home. I always want to come back, have fun in that ring and tell a story, but also — whatever venture I was out on — bring people back to that ring. I’ll never turn my back on WWE, and that’s something Rock had done and John, of course.”