Nikki Bella recently appeared FOX Sports’ Wrestling Compadres on to talk about her WWE career. Here are the highlights.
On why she thinks WWE felt the need to hide her relationship with John Cena for so long:
“They wouldn’t allow it for so many years. We were told, ‘Not on WWE.’ They could see it on ‘Total Divas,’ ‘Total Bellas,’ but not on WWE. What they realized is that when John was in relationships on-screen, it didn’t do as well when he was just himself. So the fan base didn’t take him in like how that was. So after the last on-screen, they were like, no girls with this guy. And I think with a lot of those guys — like, I don’t think you’ll ever see a girl with Roman (Reigns). There’s just certain people that it’s just, not that it takes away the ‘Superman’ feel of them, but a little bit.”
On her reaction when she found out that she would team with John Cena at WrestleMania 33:
“Literally, you guys, when I found out two months ago about the match, I mean, I immediately was like, ‘John, are you okay with that?‘ Shouldn’t he be wrestling The Undertaker? You want to be my tag partner? Like, I felt bad for him. And then he was so excited about it, and then of course, deep down, I was doing backflips, like, ‘What the … ? At Mania? You could have given me, like, Backlash, but WrestleMania, I get to tag with the love of my life, like a memory we’re going to have forever?’ It’s been incredible.”
You can read the entire interview here.
