Nikki Bella has revealed doctors have essentially put an end to her hopes of an in-ring WWE return.
The 38-year-old star, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame earlier this year alongside her twin sister Brie, had hoped to make a comeback alongside her sister to chase the Women’s Tag Team Champions but now she’s played down the chance of that actually happening.
Appearing alongside her sibling on the Sippin’ the Tea show, Nikki said: ‘I would love one day, like when Matteo’s maybe three, and he knows it, to have my son be ringside while his mom kicks ass.
‘That would be amazing to me. But because he is my everything, I have to listen to the doctors and as of now, they’ve put me on the retired bench for life.
‘So, it would take a lot of scans, x-rays, and all this different stuff for them to actually approve me to have a run and so that would be unlikely – that will be years down the road.’
While the stars would love to step between the ropes again, Nikki – who welcomed her first son Matteo in July 2020 with fiancé Artem Chigvintsev – seems to have accepted that it might not happen, and she is happy to focus on motherhood and other side businesses including wine-making.
She added: ‘I love waking up in the sun comes behind the mountains and it shoots on the vineyards and I just stare at it every morning, because Mateo has me up at 5am, and [seeing] how the sun sets.
‘I know I’m where my soul is meant to be. The wine industry, winemaking, and anything with wine, I’m like happy. It’s my happy place.’
And her sister noted while they will ‘always’ love the world of pro wrestling, they are both in a different stage of their lives now.
Brie said: ‘You just kind of evolve differently. We’re gonna always have a love for professional wrestling.
‘It was a huge part of our lives, and it was such a great time traveling the world, and getting the ring, but for me, I just feel like I’m in such a different place in my life and a place I really love.
‘We’re gonna be 38 in November and I’m like, you know too, for us to be winemakers and well, I can’t imagine taking a bump right now.’
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