Former WWE Divas Champion Nikki Bella praised Bayley following the WWE Royal Rumble 2025. She made her return on WWE RAW’s Netflix premiere, marking her first look within the promotion after a very long time.
After her look, Nikki Bella returned to the ring after three years away, getting into the Girls’s Royal Rumble match at No. 30 and receiving an enormous ovation from followers. Though she didn’t win, Nikki interacted with a number of WWE Superstars, together with Roxanne Perez, Charlotte Aptitude, Bayley, and Nia Jax.
Throughout the Girls’s Royal Rumble match, Nikki had a memorable encounter with Roxanne Perez. Each carried out their signature push-ups, creating an iconic second within the match. Nikki additionally praised Roxanne, expressing how a lot they each wished to share that second collectively.
Recalling the second, Nikki Bella acknowledged on The Nikki and Brie Show podcast, “The push-ups did turn into fairly iconic. We thought it will be such a terrific place after Nia will get hit with all these totally different strikes and everybody’s right down to have this push-up second, and I believed it will be wonderful to try this with Roxanne as a result of [of] the historical past with Roxanne … we each actually wished to have that second.”
Along with her interplay with Roxanne, Nikki additionally took the chance to reward former WWE Girls’s Champion Bayley for her management and affect within the locker room.
Nikki Bella’s heartfelt reward for Bayley’s management function in WWE
Throughout the identical podcast, Nikki Bella, who eradicated Bayley from the Girls’s Royal Rumble match, mirrored on their interplay, saying, “We had been simply having enjoyable. Clearly, I like me some Bayley. She is such an unbelievable human. I used to be together with her lots too [backstage]. She’s simply such a terrific locker room chief and so gifted.” [H/T: WrestlingInc]
After her look within the Royal Rumble match, Nikki Bella teased a possible return. It stays to be seen what plans WWE has for her. Might Bayley’s elimination result in a potential match between them? Solely time will inform.
