Nikki Bella Explains Why WWE Raw Match Went Wrong
Nikki Bella has explained why the ending to her first WWE Raw match in seven years came to a very messy conclusion.
Nikki Bella was part of the battle royal at Evolution, with the winner earning a title shot at Clash In Paris. Ultimately, Stephanie Vaquer won that bout and booked that championship match.
Bella was in action on the July 14th edition of Raw, the first time the WWE Hall of Famer had been in action on Raw since October 2018. Nikki Bella took on former WWE Women’s US Champion Chelsea Green in a match that saw Bella pick up the win. However, the end of the match was far from straightforward as Bella struggled to get Green in position for the Rack Attack 2.0, causing a messy ending.
But now Nikki Bella has explained what went wrong.
Nikki Bella Went Back To The OG Rack Attack
Speaking on the Raw Recap podcast, Nikki Bella explained that she tried to do her old Rack Attack finishing move to Green before remembering just in time that it was the move that broke her neck:
I was very blown up, but I gave it my all. What’s crazy is everyone kept telling me backstage, ‘It’s going to be like riding an old bike.’ Well, yeah, it was like riding such an old bike that I went and put Chelsea up in my old Rack Attack that broke my neck.
What was weird is I haven’t hit that since 2016, so it was weird that I naturally turned her and put her up in the slight second I go, ‘This is what broke my neck. What am I doing?’ Even when I came back from my broken neck, I never did that. I never once did that.
So tonight, it was very weird to me, how so quickly and naturally I spun her, and she said she just was like, ‘Are you okay?’ But that was very wild to me, and also it piss me off. It’s crazy, because in the Battle Royal, I hit Chelsea with the Rack Attack 2.0. But tonight, it was weird being in that singles form, that feeling of like, ‘I’m going to win this. It took me back to the Rack Attack, the OG, and when I had that slight thing of, ‘This is what broke my neck.’ I can’t believe this for a second.
I go, ‘…but you might be fine if you just hit it this way,’ and then I’m really happy that I didn’t. We are sports entertainers. Just like in football, in soccer, and whatever it may be, we have these moments where we’re not perfect. I still got the victory, and that is what counts, yeah, and I’m very happy for that.