Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Nikki Bella who is a former two times WWE Divas champion recently looked back at winning the WWE Divas of the Year award in the year 2013 and remember the how she was yelled at by someone in the WWE management.
Nikki Bella is one of the most successful stars in WWE history. She had been the longest reigning WWE Divas champion in the history of the promotion. She started her WWE career along with her twin sister Brie Bella, and together they were famously known as the Bella Twins.
Nikki Bella Remembers Being Criticized For Winning Diva Of The Year Award In 2013
It had not been very easy for the Bella Twins to gain the ultimate success in WWE. From 2013 they started to get their ultimate push and in 2014 that twin sisters had a feud among themselves which established Nikki as a top star of WWE. She went on to win the WWE Divas Championship two times and she had been the longest reigning Divas champion in WWE history as well.
But The Bella Twins had to swallow a lot of criticism during there WWE careers as well. Mostly Nikki Bella who was more successful of the twin sisters. A lot of fans still believe that she never earned the success she had and she was given the title reigns just because she was the girlfriend of John Cena during the time. The Bella Twins were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2020.
Nikki Bella who is a former two times WWE Divas champion recently spoke to The Sessions with Renée Paquette where she looked back at winning the WWE Divas of the Year award in the year 2013 and remember the how she was yelled at by someone in the WWE management. She said;
“I felt like, as far as the boss, it was the first time he lost control of what he could make and not make. When Brie and I won Diva of the Year (in 2013), we got in trouble and we got yelled at. I remember, we came back so happy, and it was, ‘Oh, because you brought in all these new viewers and the women are now voting for you and all these new women are here.’
“[Jaw] on the floor. Everyone around was on the floor like, ‘The Bella Twins are getting yelled at for being successful.’ It wasn’t what they wanted. They were the storytellers. They push who they want the crowd to be behind, just perception is reality. That is WWE to a tee. Even though the fans think they own it, no, they laugh in the back, ‘we own you’ at the end of the day.
“I truly believe Total Divas was the first thing they couldn’t control. They couldn’t control the success. They couldn’t control mainstream. There was no control. That was hard on one side, because they lost that. Then, I think, everyone backstage thought we were going to fail. I don’t like to use the word envy or jealousy, but I think there was a bit. We all kind of get that.”
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