After making her first TV look on WWE programming in six years, Nikki Bella already has her sights set on furthering her household’s skilled wrestling dynasty.
Bella, 41, returned to WWE Uncooked on Monday, June 9, the place she engaged in a disagreement with Liv Morgan. Whereas the section ended with Bella face down in the midst of the ring, the Corridor of Famer completely advised Us Weekly it nonetheless felt “tremendous empowering” to be again.
To make issues much more particular, Bella’s son Matteo, 4, has just lately change into fairly the wrestling fan himself.
“I’ve been watching Uncooked, so he’ll sit and watch with me,” Bella mentioned. “It’s humorous, as a result of he loves the ladies’s wrestling. However then abruptly he’ll wanna wrestle me and I can see it in him.”
Bella shares Matteo together with her ex husband Artem Chigvintsev. The couple finalized their divorce in December 2024.
“Matteo would completely be a excessive flyer,” Bella mentioned of her son’s wrestling model. “He has a number of grace and is tremendous athletic. He’s an unbelievable dancer.”
Bella mentioned she would “completely assist” Matteo if he expressed actual curiosity in getting within the sport, particularly given the present local weather inside WWE.
“They actually care for his or her expertise,” Bella defined. “It’s simply so totally different. I’d absolutely embrace and like it.”

Nikki Bella, Uncooked June 9 2025. WWE Ladies’s Division/YouTube
Bella and her twin sister, Brie Bella, each signed with WWE in June 2007 and have been referred to as the Bella Twins. Each sisters retired from full-time in-ring motion in 2019, however have made shock appearances at numerous Premium Stay Occasions — like Nikki’s entrance into the 2025 Royal Rumble in February — within the time since.
Brie shares daughter Birdie, 8, and son Buddy, 4, with former WWE famous person and AEW wrestler, Bryan Danielson.
Based on Nikki, she and her sister have already plotted for his or her sons to hitch forces contained in the squared circle.
“Brie and I all the time say if our boys have been just like the Bella Boys, it will be so cute,” she gushed. “They’re just about like twins. I’d be in heaven.”
Matteo and Buddy have been born simply at some point aside.
The thought won’t be so far-fetched, as Nikki mentioned Buddy is “already on his approach to changing into a wrestler.”
“He watches the Royal Rumble, the one I used to be simply in, nearly on daily basis,” Nikki mentioned of her nephew. “It’s so cute.”
Nikki has already been marketed for subsequent week’s WWE Uncooked in Inexperienced Bay, Wisconsin, as the corporate builds to its second-ever all-women’s Premium Stay Occasion, Evolution, which fits down July 13 in Atlanta.