
Nikki Bella made her shock return to WWE through the 2025 girls’s Royal Rumble match.
Bella, 41, was the thirtieth and ultimate entrant within the excessive rope battle royal at Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday, February 1.
The wrestler entered the ring sporting her iconic outfit that includes her backwards purple hat. As soon as within the ring, Nikki joined forces together 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 finally eradicated Nikki, earlier than Charlotte Aptitude took the crown because the 2025 Royal Rumble champion and secured herself a ticket to this yr’s Wrestlemania in Las Vegas, Nevada
The match marked Bella’s first in-ring look since she was a shock entrant within the 2022 girls’s Royal Rumble match. She and her twin sister, Brie, formally retired from full-time wrestling motion in 2019.
Nonetheless, Nikki recently told 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.
“I’ve missed it for fairly a couple of years,” Nikki mentioned in an interview revealed Wednesday, January 29. “I miss being Nikki Bella. I miss being round that household. I undoubtedly miss being in that ring. Once they put me within the crowd that evening and to really feel the vitality and see the Bella Military, whether or not they have been within the crowd or on-line, it begins to offer you these feels.”

Nikki Bella competes within the ring towards Natalya Moon throughout 2018 the WWE Reside Present Marc Pfitzenreuter/Getty Photos
Nikki added, “Going dwelling to WWE, I don’t assume folks perceive, I began at 22. That’s all I ever knew up till a bit bit in the past. So, that’s been the largest dwelling for me and to return and be dwelling and the atmosphere there may be so unimaginable. The ladies have been simply, what an ideal locker room. They have been simply so superior and collectively and one and unity and everybody again there was simply so completely satisfied. You can inform the vitality there proper now could be simply unimaginable.”
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 in a position to break.
“I’m like, ‘Because of this 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 received it, so we’ll see.”
Nikki even hinted that she would possibly be capable to persuade her sister to affix her within the ring once more quickly.
“Once I went and I got here again, I used to be like, ‘Brie, it’s so superb,’” Nikki mentioned. “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 so much to get her to come back again with me.”
Brie and husband Bryan Danielson, a former WWE star who’s at present on the All Elite Wrestling roster, share two children: daughter Birdie, 7, and son Buddy, 4.
Nikki shares son Matteo, 4, together with her ex husband, Artem Chigvintsev.
Whereas she’s centered 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 superb it’s that ladies can do all these unimaginable issues,” she mentioned, “whether or not that’s kicking butt within the ring, operating a boardroom, being superb at college.”

Nikki Bella made her shock return to WWE through the 2025 girls’s Royal Rumble match.
Bella, 41, was the thirtieth and ultimate entrant within the excessive rope battle royal at Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday, February 1.
The wrestler entered the ring sporting her iconic outfit that includes her backwards purple hat. As soon as within the ring, Nikki joined forces together 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 finally eradicated Nikki, earlier than Charlotte Aptitude took the crown because the 2025 Royal Rumble champion and secured herself a ticket to this yr’s Wrestlemania in Las Vegas, Nevada
The match marked Bella’s first in-ring look since she was a shock entrant within the 2022 girls’s Royal Rumble match. She and her twin sister, Brie, formally retired from full-time wrestling motion in 2019.
Nonetheless, Nikki recently told 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.
“I’ve missed it for fairly a couple of years,” Nikki mentioned in an interview revealed Wednesday, January 29. “I miss being Nikki Bella. I miss being round that household. I undoubtedly miss being in that ring. Once they put me within the crowd that evening and to really feel the vitality and see the Bella Military, whether or not they have been within the crowd or on-line, it begins to offer you these feels.”

Nikki Bella competes within the ring towards Natalya Moon throughout 2018 the WWE Reside Present Marc Pfitzenreuter/Getty Photos
Nikki added, “Going dwelling to WWE, I don’t assume folks perceive, I began at 22. That’s all I ever knew up till a bit bit in the past. So, that’s been the largest dwelling for me and to return and be dwelling and the atmosphere there may be so unimaginable. The ladies have been simply, what an ideal locker room. They have been simply so superior and collectively and one and unity and everybody again there was simply so completely satisfied. You can inform the vitality there proper now could be simply unimaginable.”
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 in a position to break.
“I’m like, ‘Because of this 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 received it, so we’ll see.”
Nikki even hinted that she would possibly be capable to persuade her sister to affix her within the ring once more quickly.
“Once I went and I got here again, I used to be like, ‘Brie, it’s so superb,’” Nikki mentioned. “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 so much to get her to come back again with me.”
Brie and husband Bryan Danielson, a former WWE star who’s at present on the All Elite Wrestling roster, share two children: daughter Birdie, 7, and son Buddy, 4.
Nikki shares son Matteo, 4, together with her ex husband, Artem Chigvintsev.
Whereas she’s centered 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 superb it’s that ladies can do all these unimaginable issues,” she mentioned, “whether or not that’s kicking butt within the ring, operating a boardroom, being superb at college.”