Nikki Bella wants a character change in her current WWE run.
The former WWE Divas Champion returned earlier this year at the Royal Rumble. Over the past few months, she has been active in the ring, facing the new generation of WWE superstars. Now, she is looking to move beyond her “Fearless Nikki” persona.
On her SiriusXM podcast, The Nikki & Brie Show, Nikki said, “As far as me personally, one thing I knew that I wanted out of this comeback and I still do is one, to get back into my strong shape and my wrestling shape and to get to a place where I used to be many years ago. So, physically, that part, and then it was to get myself into the wrestling place of this new era.”
She also wanted to challenge by pushing beyond her comfort zone while staying true to her identity in the ring. “Like, “Okay, how far can I push myself beyond my comfort zone and how can I hang in this era?” You know, who I am as a wrestler and in the ring. Am I going to change that? You know, I’ve always been more known as a powerhouse and that slightly changed when I came back from my broken neck, so in that way, I had to change, you know, some of my move set and change, you know, what I was doing in my craft and now I know I’m going to do that again.”
After her return earlier this year, Nikki initially kept her “Fearless Nikki” persona for nostalgia but now plans to evolve her character. “I wanted to keep Fearless Nikki as Fearless Nikki because to me, my comeback was more about being nostalgia and “Okay, here’s this Hall of Famer and this legend, so let’s just keep her as is.” That was my mindset and you know me.”
“I’m a marketing machine, so I wanted to keep what was marketable, what people recognized me as, but now being in it, I’m actually wanting to kind of change her a little bit.” She shared collaborates closely with WWE creative each week.
“I do work with creative every week hands on. I love being hands-on. Everyone there is hands-on. It’s actually very different than before. Even when we do promos, you know, we used to get handed something and it’s way different now. It’s really cool.” [H/T: wrestlingnews.co]
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