WWE: Nikki Bella Reportedly Expected to Make WWE In-Ring Return, Triple H on John Cena’s Current Heel Run Being Something That Has Been Amazing to See, More News

Nikki Bella Reportedly Expected to Make In-Ring Return to WWE

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer Nikki Bella made a surprise in-ring return at this past February’s WWE Royal Rumble 2025 event as one of the surprise entrants in the Women’s Royal Rumble match. Bella revealed in an episode of her The Nikki & Brie Show podcast this past March that she will be going back to WWE to do something with the company in the future.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that his sources stated that both Bella and WWE have been on good terms with each other. Those same sources spoken to reportedly also stated that Bella is currently expected to make an in-ring return to WWE in the future.

Sapp reported that Bella’s in-ring return could be as a part-time schedule and WWE officials currently want to do more with Bella in the company.

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Triple H Comments on John Cena’s Current Heel Run Being Something That Has Been Amazing to See

A recent episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon featured WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque. One of the topics discussed included Levesque’s thoughts about Cena’s recent heel turn at this past March’s WWE Elimination Chamber 2025 event and his current heel run for his retirement tour.

“But the challenge on this is he’s in his retirement run…and he came back and turned into a bad guy. In our business, he turned heel. It’s amazing to see that transformation of John from like the most beloved character in WWE to just Darth Vader. They hate him, and he’s working very hard to make them hate him.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

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WWE News & Notes

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that WWE and Fanatics are currently working on plans for Fanatics to host a WWE-themed experience at The American Dream Mall in New Jersey during SummerSlam 2025 weekend.

Former WWE wrestler Kelly Kelly reportedly recently signed a Legends contract with WWE, according to Fightful Select.

Live Nation Philadelphia recently announced that Damien Priest will be the official host for trash metal band Slayer’s only North American headlining concert for this year on September 20th at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

This past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Minneapolis, Minnesota was notable for controversial comedian Tony Hinchcliffe being on guest commentary for the WWE World Tag Team Championship match between New Day and the War Raiders. During the match, Hinchcliffe made a controversial joke mocking Big E’s neck injury that generated online negative backlash over it. Fightful Select reported that their sources within WWE acknowledged that the Hinchcliffe segment did nott land as they had intended for the show. Those spoken to reportedly stated that Hinchcliffe was respectful during his time at the event.

WWE recently revealed the next match in their on-going countdown of their Top 50 matches in WrestleMania history. The 9th spot was the Retirement match of The Ultimate Warrior vs. “Macho Man” Randy Savage from WrestleMania VII.

WWE also recently released three new videos to their WCW Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a singles match of Sting vs. Stunning Steve Austin from the April 8, 1995 episode of WCW Saturday Night. The second new video was the full December 25, 1995 episode of WCW Nitro. The third new video was the full WCW Clash of the Champions IV event.

WWE also recently released two new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a WWE World Tag Team Championship match of Natural Disasters vs. Money Inc. (c) from the July 20, 1992 WWE live event. The second new video was a singles match of Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho from WWE WrestleMania XIX.

WWE also recently released one new video to their NXT Vault channel on YouTube. This new video was the full July 17, 2014 episode of WWE NXT.

In a recent interview with The Ringer’s The Masked Man Show podcast, Naomi gave her thoughts about her recent heel turn and her new heel character in WWE. Naomi stated “It’s definitely freeing, in a way, because I don’t feel like….dang, I’ve danced, I’ve done everything to try to show you people that I care and that I want to be here and that if y’all ride with me, I’m going to give you everything, but y’all don’t care about that. It is freeing. I feel like a lot of pressure is off of me that I don’t have to prove and try to compete with perfection and all this nonsense. At this point, you’re either with me or you’re not. If you’re not, I advise you to proceed with caution.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

Joaquin Wilde recently reflected on Instagram about him recently discovering cassettes featuring his late father’s voice that were recorded prior to his death and the advice his late father gave him. Wilde stated “Never really knew my father. Right before he died, he recorded himself talking on cassette tapes, basically saying goodbye and im sorry to each of his kids. Apologizing for the difficult lives we were going to live because we would all grow up without a father. Never listened to the tapes but always knew they existed. Also had no clue where my mom had put them after so many years. Well my brother found them. So i got a digital cassette player, threw the audio in Ableton to clean it up and for the first time in my life, i was able to hear my dad’s voice and listen to him speak directly to me. Yeah sh*t was super sad and I cried alot. He gave me some fatherly advice though. One thing he said to me was, no matter what I’m doing, dont half-ass it and always give 100% because people will respect you for that. For some reason that simple piece of advice resonated and made me think about wrestling. Because the reality is, i dont get to have matches on TV every week. So whenever i am blessed with an opportunity to have a match in the WWE ring, i treat it like my life is on the line. I take big risks, i maximize my minutes and I put all of my energy into every choice that I make. And I think about my dad’s words before all my matches now too. Many things are out of my control, but one thing I can control is my effort. So I will always give 100% and all I can hope is that eventually people will recognize it and respect me for it.“