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Back in November, it was announced that former Divas Champion Nikki Bella was taking time off to rehab nagging injuries. The hope was that she’d be able to heal up from the damage her finishing move was doing to her neck and get back in the ring without having surgery. That turned out to be an impossibility. Nikki had surgery on Wednesday and it went well, and now WWE’s posted a followup video documenting the before-and-after of the process.
The clip really puts the seriousness — and the rarity — of the injury into perspective. Nikki’s recovery time is set at a minimum of six months, including three months where she’ll be unable to travel and will be stuck at her house in Tampa. That has to be agony for someone who spends so much of their life traveling around the world with WWE, not to mention Total Divas. The good news is that her recovery’s already going well, and she’s clearly got a great support system to make sure she gets there. She’s got a loving boyfriend, a twin sister … she’s even got People Power.
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We continue to wish Nikki Bella a full and speedy recovery. We hope to see her back in WWE before the end of 2016, throwing forearms and never ever doing the Rack Attack again.
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“Honey, I’m about to go into surgery now…”
“Shut up, I’m writing a text message!”
This may sound insensitive but this is the best thing for female wrestling, Nikki is a terrible performer who needs to take a step back
Brie is worse.
Nikki actually works really well for me as the egotistical sexpot hoss of the division that we can compare everyone else to. You can match her up with “realer” girls like AJ, underdogs like Bailey, or face her off against “legitimate challengers that SHOULD be able to trounce her” like Paige. She’s actually a pretty versatile tool of the division. The problem is the overall total lack of actual character and consistent alignments in the division, combined with her meant to be the top heel of the diva’s but also being used as the catch-all sexiest diva, female promotional face that they need hanging out next to John Cena and Brock Lesnar on posters and flyers at Kmart.
@AsymmetricDizzy Is right.
And this injury gives a light of hope. Nikki is going to be gone for six months. Look at what’s happening right now. Charlotte and Becky are initiating the next phase of the Diva’s Revolution. The wrestling has been brought up to par, now the characterizations are improving. The women’s title scene right now has been the best part of the show since Charlotte vs Becky has kicked off. When Nikki gets back that could be far along enough that it’s the norm. Nikki could actually come back and have fleshed out characterization to bite into. Especially with a return from injury get back what I’ve lost style story line. This could be a godsend.
Really, I think by the time she’s back Nikki will be settling into a position of putting people over, with her relative age and having done pretty much all she was going to do. Bayley should be up by then and Nikki is adept at getting Mean Girls heat, they can go back to the Paige storyline and recover the damage done to her in it, even if she comes back as face she can do what she would see as legitimizing the then-current champion, presuming it’s Sasha because come on (or Charlotte, given six months more will about take her up to Nikki’s record mark)
I’m so terrified and scared I almost forgot my branding and hashtags for my tweets.
Hope she recovers but never comes back. Take your sister with you.
She’s improved incredibly but their schtick makes me feel gross.
Please recover fully and then never come back is where I’m at too, and for the same reasons. Love that she improved so much in the ring that it’s easy to tell when she’s dogging it, but the character is just straight up toxic and bad for everyone to have around.
Some thoughts:
1. Isn’t Tampa General Hospital the place where the amputated the wrong leg from some dude?
2. Nikki looks better without the clown makeup.
3. Even she calls her husband “John Cena”.
4. Hi, Mom. Wow.
2. I don’t see what’s wrong with her makeup, but most women look just fine if not occasionally better without makeup. Especially if they have great skin like Nikki does.
It’s been said plenty of times before. But twin wrestling sisters each married/engaged to a major wrestling star, step-fathered by a wrestling executive and former wrestler; you can’t help but be reminded how strange and wonderful wrestling is.
I watch the Bella Twins reality and wrestling and John Cena the entire family is so awesome close and love one another.
I’ll say prayers Nikki get better soon
God bless you
Get Well Soon Nikki
I’ve always been sort of curious..why is Nikki “Fearless?” I did not watch for a while, so maybe I missed something. As long as I have been watching, she has never done aerial moves, crazy spots, or anything else that would seem daring and/or fearless. I have always viewed it as sort of dumb that she “fearless” without really doing anything that seems daring. And what’s with the sorta baseball gear? Is that themed for a reason?
As long as she’s with Cena, career-wise she has nothing to fear.
I know she has cameras following her for most of the year anyway, but it seems strange and telling that we’ve had so many updates this week about the precise nature of Nikki’s injury whereas we’ve heard next to nothing about Cena, Orton or Rollins.
Telling how? I’m going to assume that Uproxx posted the updates and vids because Nikki made them available. We’ve seen this plenty of times from other superstars who post vids and pics pre and post surgery and we’ve seen Uproxx posy them when available.
Did Rollins and Orton have surgery this week? Did Uproxx ignore it? Were videos made available that Uproxx didn’t post?
The videos come from official WWE sources. I’m not sure they’ve even mentioned the recent world champion since he first got injured apart from his cameo at the Slammys.