WWE star Nikki Bella recalls Paige's WrestleMania 42 moment, gives injury update

Nikki Bella was unluckily sidelined for WrestleMania 42 and couldn’t spell aft the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship with her sister Brie.

Instead, the adjacent champion happening happened. Nikki Bella came retired and addressed the Las Vegas assemblage and announced that Paige would beryllium her replacement. The fans were electrified to spot the instrumentality of Paige aft respective years away. She and Brie Bella would spell connected to triumph the titles.

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Nikki Bella, Paige and Brie Bella observe during WrestleMania 42 Night 1 astatine Allegiant Stadium successful Las Vegas, Nev., connected April 18, 2026. (Rich Freeda/WWE)

Ahead of Brie Bella and Paige’s tag squad rubric defence against Nia Jax and Lash Legend astatine Saturday Night’s Main Event, Nikki Bella recalled the WrestleMania infinitesimal successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital.

"It was amazing," she recalled. "I consciousness similar there’s nary 1 other that could’ve taken my spot and would person had that benignant of interaction than Paige due to the fact that we person truthful overmuch past with Paige and Paige is genuinely similar a sister to Brie and I and she’s a monolithic prima with a ton of equity. I was truthful blessed for her. I mean, obviously, you’re conscionable down anyways astir the injury. I couldn’t adjacent accidental the connection medically right, you’re conscionable truthful successful emotion."

Bella said she was blessed for her sister and Paige for their tag squad triumph and added that she noticed the 2 whitethorn person amended chemistry successful the ringing than she does.

Paige and Brie Bella code the assemblage during WWE RAW astatine Thompson-Boling Arena successful Knoxville, Tenn., connected May 11, 2026. (Michael Owens/WWE)

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"But I was truly blessed for Paige, and also, Brie and Paige person specified akin vibes," she said. "Almost, I consciousness like, much than maine and Brie. They’re conscionable like, the checkered print, punk benignant of benignant girls. So erstwhile I’m watching them each week connected TV, I’m like, this really truly works. This is great. So it makes maine really, truly blessed for her – for Paige and for Brie."

Bella, who became the Chief Margarita Officer for Madam Paleta Tequila, is moving hard to get backmost successful enactment aft suffering the terrible ankle injury.

She explained her timeline to Fox News Digital.

"As of now, I get my X-rays done mid-June. So X-rays, MRIs, to spot however the maturation is – did my bones afloat turn back? All the things," she said. "But contiguous I was truly pumped due to the fact that I got to squat for the archetypal time. So, I’ve been moving with my trainer and my PT and past week I got to determination up to a level wherever we present get to absorption connected strengthening. So, I volition say, it’s truthful overmuch work. My breached cervix was mode easier than this and, like, however is that possible?

Nikki Bella confronts Becky Lynch during Monday Night RAW astatine Barclays Center successful Brooklyn connected Aug. 4, 2025. (Michael Marques/WWE)

"But I was truthful fired up this greeting due to the fact that to beryllium backmost successful a squat presumption and adjacent though it’s evidently not the value I’m utilized to, but to conscionable commencement somewhere, it conscionable felt truthful good. And to bash conscionable an existent afloat workout, and don’t get maine wrong, there’s immoderate things I look similar a babe cervid and my legs shingle similar nary different but I person a starting point. I’m moving truly hard connected trying get my spot arsenic beardown arsenic imaginable for erstwhile I get those X-rays due to the fact that if I tin get cleared, similar mid-to-late June, past they look astatine strength, you spell done each of these spot tests. I’m trying to get excavation arsenic adjacent to determination arsenic possible."

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For now, Bella volition person to beryllium and ticker her sister and Paige astatine Saturday Night’s Main Event successful Fort Wayne, Indiana, astatine 8 p.m. ET.