Nikki Bella has provided a positive update regarding her injury.
Nikki, one-half of the Bella Twins, has been out of the ring since April due to an ankle injury. The setback, which required surgery, caused her to miss this year’s Wrestlemania card.
Fast forward a few months, Nikki has nothing but good things to say regarding the progress on her ankle issues. During the latest episode of the Nikki & Brie Show, taped over the weekend at Fanatics Fest, she recounted recently visiting WWE’s Performance Center in Orlando for an assessment.
“When I went to the PC to get cleared, they’re like, ‘You look like a Nike commercial.’ Because if they wanted me to sprint, it was like 110 percent [effort] sprinting. Just doing all the things because I wanted to prove how good I was, jumping high… [They said] ‘Okay now go to the top turnbuckle and just jump in the middle.’ … That messed me up a little bit. I got up there and was like ‘I’m going to break my ankle again.’ I’m like, if I re-break my ankle… I was good. I was good. And then I did a match on the fly … They’re like, ‘We want you to start from the back, run, jump over the barricade, get in, then at some point during the match, we’re just gonna have them toss you over.’ Because they were just putting my ankle in situations. Hey, I did it.”
While Nikki has been away from the ring, sister Brie Bella has been teaming with the recently returned Paige. They held the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships for months, just dropping them last weekend to Fatal Influence.
