Nikki Bella being cleared to wrestle again is one of the bigger stories to start the new year as she will return to the ring at the Royal Rumble event. Speaking on her own podcast, the longest reigning Divas Champion of all time revealed more details.
She explained that wrestling offers an unlimited amount of comebacks: “In the world of any professional sport, people always make comebacks, but what’s beautiful about WWE is that we can make comebacks as many times as we want as long as our bodies let us and doctors (let us). I’ve officially got cleared.”
The appointment in which she was cleared was described as something special: “When we were all in Phoenix, I wasn’t allowed to tell you guys, when we all went there for the holiday weekend. I went in and saw my surgeon and my doctor, Dr. Uribe. You know what I have to say, his staff and him are just amazing. So you all know, they opened up the clinic for me. Everyone was heading out for the holidays because it was literally a few days before Christmas Eve. People came in and met me at 7 am because they all were flying out later that day. They came in, they scanned me because I did MRA, I did scans on my brain, my neck, X-ray, everything you could think of they did to make sure, right. Then we went into Dr. Uribe’s office, and all these people came in just for me and it made me feel so special.”
Nikki dealt with serious neck injuries for the better of the last six years, as she was forced to a long absence between 2015 and 2016 and again from 2017 to 2018, when she had her last match against Ronda Rousey at Evolution. The Bellas were supposed to win the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships in 2019 but couldn’t as Nikki was never cleared before now.
