Nikki Bella opens up about how her soccer profession got here to a screeching halt after she was injured on this EXCLUSIVE preview of the 'Biography: WWE Legends' particular.
“Soccer was my life. For 11 years I performed aggressive ball, and I liked what I did,” Nikki Bella explains on this EXCLUSIVE preview of The Bella Twins episode of Biography: WWE Legends.
Earlier than she grew to become one of the crucial recognizable figures within the WWE, Nikki had “desires of being on the ladies’s World Cup group.” Nikki had her coronary heart set on a protracted profession in soccer.
“I’m about to signal with Arizona State College, and I've all these different provides from everywhere in the nation,” Nikki continues. “I’m going to have a spot on the Arizona Heatwave taking part in within the ladies’s skilled league. I’m making my method as much as see that dream of being on the World Cup group someday. That’s how I see it, proper?”
Sadly, a soccer profession was not meant to be. Throughout a third-place sport together with her highschool group, Nikki collided with an opposing participant. They hit “shin-to-shin” and Nikki’s shin “snaps proper in half.”
The damage put an finish to her future with soccer. “The break was simply so unhealthy it was like, ‘Sorry, we don’t understand how you’re going to heal,'” Nikki reveals. “Scholarships are off the desk. We couldn’t afford faculty. All the things that I labored for for 11 years straight, what was going to get me out of Arizona, out of my dwelling, was simply all gone. It was identical to every little thing crumbled.”
This episode of Biography: WWE Legends, airing July 24, chronicles Brie and Nikki’s journey from waitresses to WWE Superstars and popular culture icons. Success in sports activities bought the Bellas via a troublesome childhood and helped them survive private traumas. That aggressive spirit led them to a groundbreaking profession in wrestling, capturing the Divas Championship and satisfying their Bella Military with their hit actuality reveals. The Twins are nonetheless kicking ass as mothers, entrepreneurs, and as WWE Corridor of Famers.
Biography: WWE Legends season 2 premiered July 10. Legends featured this season additionally embody The Undertaker, Goldberg, The Bella Twins, Lex Luger, Edge, Kurt Angle, Rey Mysterio, and D-Technology X. Biography: WWE Legends airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on A&E Community.