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Former Divas Champion Nikki Bella recently sat down and talked with Channel Guide Magazine to discuss Total Divas, her Divas Title reign and more.
On her record-breaking reign, Nikki spoke candidly about the rumors of John Cena influencing it:
“I ignore it. Even though I see the hate on social media, and it shocks me. It shocks me the rumors people start, that I have the title because of my boyfriend. If that was the case I would have gotten the title when I came back years ago and still had the title. He has nothing to do with it. He has nothing to do with anyone’s story or anything like that. He has zero pull. We talk about it all the time because it’s funny how people say that.
I think where it started was for a year AJ Lee had a voice on WWE TV and all of us on Total Divas didn’t. Then Vince [McMahon] didn’t want the title on any Total Divas member because he didn’t know how it would transition on Sunday night and Monday in case there was a title change and the show was airing.
So for a year she got her run through all the girls. I was the only one she really didn’t. She got to say these things that weren’t true, but we didn’t get to speak back. So I felt like that is where the perception of Brie and I really started. She said things like we came back for reality show and all this stuff. It was all untrue. While this is happening, I’m working twice as hard to be better and improve my craft to become the next Divas Champion.”
Nikki was also asked about Natalya‘s lack of involvement in the Divas Revolution and if her presence is wanted in the division:
“Why wouldn’t we want her? That is one of the best female wrestlers we have. I definitely want to see her in the mix. I also think before we bring up anyone else from NXT we need to make sure Becky Lynch, Charlotte and Sasha Banks become familiar to the main roster audience. We have people who are fans of NXT always in the crowd. However, there are the casual viewers and millions of fans at home tuning in who don’t watch WWE Network. So I feel we have to get the casual viewer familiar with those three girls and then we can bring in more. It’s so much fun because we can work on all these new stories with these three new girls and get them over. Then all of a sudden we can have another few from NXT come up.”
You can read the full interview on Channel Guide Magazine.
