Bianca Belair Reveals How She Suffered Her Broken Finger, Discusses Coming Up With Her Hair Whip

– During a recent interview with Insight with Chris Van Vliet, WWE Superstar Bianca Belair discussed how she suffered her broken finger injury at WrestleMania 41, how she came up with her hair braid whip, and a whole lot more. Below are some highlights provided to us by Insight:

Bianca Belair on her broken finger injury: “It looks more like a real finger now. So I have to wear my ring finger on my right hand now because my ring doesn’t fit. It’s healed, it won’t fully straighten. I broke it in two or three different spots. I broke it up here in the middle and then down in the joint.”

On what caused the injury: “So it was when we were doing the triple German spot, when IYO was on the top rope, and then it was Rhea, then it was me, I came in German suplexed both of them off, and my hand got stuck underneath Rhea. Also I went to the wrong side of Rhea, but my hand, I thought she was gonna go further over me, but we kind of just collapsed together. So when my hand went back, it got stuck under her, and she literally crashed on my hand. I knew immediately it was broken, because usually in a match, something happens, and you don’t feel it until after the match, your adrenaline wears off, and you’re like, Ow, my finger. But in the moment, I thought I broke all my fingers. So the ref, you can see the ref if you watch back, the ref comes to me. He’s like, ‘Are you okay?’ I’m like, ‘I just broke all of my fingers!’ You just see me rolling around on the ground, and it took Rhea to snap me out of the moment, because I was just rolling around on the ground. She’s like, ‘Bianca, Bianca!’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ Oh, we have to finish this match.”

On making her hair braid part of her character: “So I was, again, I was trying to figure out what do I want to look like? I want to have a unique look, and I was looking at all the girls that were there. They would wear their hair down. It was beautiful. I want to wear my hair down, I want to feel beautiful and I just loved how all the girls were glamorous. But I wore a braid one time, and my husband, he was like, ‘That’s your thing. You have to stick with it.’ He’s like, ‘You have to keep the braid.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know. I feel like sometimes I feel I look better with the long hair.’ He’s like, ‘But everybody does that. The best way to stand out here is to do something that nobody else is doing. Look at what everybody else is doing, and if that works for them, go the complete opposite way. The first time somebody comes to a show, they might not remember your name for the first time, but they’ll remember the girl with the braid.’ And I was like, All right, I’m the girl with the braid.”

Belair on using the hair braid as a whip: “Yeah, a lot of people think that production adds a special effect to it, no [there’s no sound effect]. And every time that I do it, it’s loud. I thought Sasha was the loudest, and then when I hit Becky, it surprises me. I’m like, Oh, that sounds like that hurt. Sorry. You know, every time it gets louder and louder. [The welt it leaves is crazy]. So that’s why I don’t do it a lot too. For one, I don’t want the audience to get used to it, and two, I don’t want to just mark up people.”

On how she braids her hair: “It’s a special way that I braid it, and I can whip it in the air. This is my appearance one, it’s not braided so it won’t make a noise. So when I braid a certain way, if I can hear the way that it goes in the wind, I can tell if it’s a hair whip braid. I’m like, Yep, that’s it. We’re good.”

Bianca Belair on the moment when Jade Cargill attacked Naomi at the Elimination Chamber: “I just try to pull from just experiences that we had as Tag Team Champions, even with Naomi. Naomi and I, we were always friends before we were in a tag team. But when we got into a tag team, I feel like I just got so much more closer to her, I’ve learned so much from her inside and outside the ring. So it’s like in my heart, that’s my best friend. Then me and Jade, we were able to be a tag team, and we’re able to be Tag Team Champions, and put the division on the map, and do the things that we wanted to do. And just being in this position, I just try to see it as I’m literally watching my best friend get beat up. Then I just try to just hone into that and like this is awful. You have your two best friends fighting each other, and I’d really just try to, I don’t know, just tap into that and just pull the realism out of it.”

Bianca Belair has been out of action since April due to her broken finger. She did appear as a special guest referee for the Naomi vs. Jade Cargill bout at WWE Evolution. Cargill was victorious in the bout. However, later in the night, Naomi cashed in her Money in the Bank briefcase, using it to win the Women’s World Title in the main event featuring Iyo Sky vs. Rhea Ripley.