Without a doubt, Nikki Bella is one of the most popular female athletes in WWE history who is also a lifelong talent signed to the company. The Hall of Famer is attached to the WWE brand via several means as she remained to be a brand ambassador to the Vince McMahon-owned brand. This is also one of the reasons why WWE made her the longest-reigning Divas Champion, back in the day.
Both Brie and Nikki Bella were one of the biggest WWE divas in their heydays. The WWE Hall of Famers is now retired from professional wrestling as they both have started their own families. While the latter has started a family with partner Artem Chigvintsev, Brie Bella is married to AEW superstar Bryan Danielson fka Daniel Bryan in WWE.
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Freddie Prinze Jr., a Hollywood actor & former WWE Creative Writer, had the Bella Twins on his show Wrestling with Freddie to discuss their careers. They addressed the happening of their WWE career, most importantly how they ended up leaving WWE in 2012.
“When we first signed with WWE, and we made it TV finally, we re-did a five-year contract. So we were on TV for five years and our five years were coming up. I remember that Brie and I just did not like how women were treated in WWE,” Nikki Bella stated.
“Two-minute matches but were allowed ten minutes on live events. While we were working hard on live events, we were never allowed a showcase on TV and our stories didn’t have depth and we just weren’t treated right.”
Due to the status of the female talents of the WWE, The Bella Twins actually hesitated to re-sign their contract when it was about to run out.
“I remember when our contract was coming up and we kept wanting to talk about it. They were like ‘yeah, yeah we need to get to that, we need to get to that.’ So finally, I and Brie got a point where we said ‘let’s not remind them, and let’s see what happens.’”
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Nikki Bella proceeded to mention that she and her younger sister were performing in all the show shows, while she is still the champion in 2012. But then they refused to re-sign the contracts and as a process, the company had to take away the belt from Nikki.
“So, it’s about — I think our contracts up after this one RAW, the next day. Still, no one talks to us, and I’m the champion. This is when I beat Beth Phoenix and I’m wondering if anyone is going to talk to me about my contract. Sure enough, the reason why I dropped it to Layla in Chicago out of nowhere was that I was like ‘I’m not signing,’” Nikki Bella revealed.
“They were like ‘we’ll give you these stories,’ and I was like, you couldn’t even have a conversation with me. I remember we’d just had this conversation and I said ‘we’re leaving.’ They still probably thought Brie and I were going to sign after the show or that week, they kept calling. Literally, when we left RAW in Chicago, after the championship match, we left and that was it.”
Nikki Bella originally defeated Beth Phoenix to win her first WWE Divas Championship on the April 23 episode of 2012. Apparently, it was a way to retain her in the WWE contract. But just six days later, she dropped the belt to Layla at Extreme Rules since she didn’t sign on the dotted lines. That marked the departure of The Bella Twins in 2012 but they were back to rule the roost, the very next year.
