WWE women’s wrestler Nikki Bella commented on her decision to retire from in-ring competition on the latest edition of The Bellas Podcast. She revealed that a comeback was difficult and that her neck injury is what ultimately led to her retirement. She said,
“Something we really couldn’t air on Total Bellas is that people didn’t realize how hard my comeback was for me to go back to a place that I called home and met the love of my life. When they showed you that I made the decision [to retire] because I couldn’t hang with the girls in the ring anymore, what they also don’t air — because they never want me to talk about my neck — it is because of my neck.”
Nikki said that her situation is similar to Paige’s retirement due to her neck injury, saying, “You saw what happened to Paige. Paige and I have the same hardware. So if I was to get kicked in the back of the head, I would get paralyzed too or even worse.”
