Nikki Bella comments on her and Stephanie Vaquer being in a “difficult spot” at WWE Survivor Series 2025
As seen at the 2025 WWE Survivor Series PLE, Nikki Bella lost to women’s world champion Stephanie Vaquer. While speaking on her podcast, Nikki addressed the match…
“I’ll give away a little without giving too much away, right? So I knew where we were at on the card. We were in a difficult spot, and I knew we weren’t going to have a lot of time, and we had to tell a specific story.
For me, the one thing I was told was, ‘We need super heelish,’ because what they realized going into it was that if you hadn’t watched the past few weeks, you would have no idea that I was a heel. They were afraid I might go out there and be a babyface. The nice thing is we had the package before the match that showed my heel turn so we could tell the crowd, ‘She’s a heel.’
But they were just like, ‘We need heel Nikki,’ and I haven’t been heel Nikki since before I broke my neck. And I’m like, ‘Damn, I’m doing all these things on the fly, in the moment, live.’ It’s one thing when you’re wrestling five years straight doing all the live events—then it’s like, ‘Yeah, okay, I could change this, do that.’ But, you know… so this is what I told myself.
I was in there and I go, ‘We’re doing bad bitch energy.’ Because at the end of the day, it’s all about confidence. And Nicole, when your music hits, you’re going to go out there, and you’re going to have all that confidence in you. You are going to go be this person, and that will get you into that moment.”