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Chelsea Green Opens Up About Facing Nikki Bella On WWE RAW Earlier This Year
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WWE Superstar Chelsea Green recently opened up about facing Nikki Bella earlier this year.
Bella’s first singles match following her return to the company as a full-time talent was against the current Women’s United States Champion on the July 14, 2025, episode of WWE RAW.
In a recent interaction with Adrian Hernandez on Unlikely, Chelsea Green, who is a huge fan of Nikki, said that wrestling the WWE Hall of Famer in her first singles match back was a really proud moment for her.
Green went on to call Nikki the epitome of women’s wrestling, adding that she wanted the latter to feel empowered in her first one-on-one match following a long absence from the ring. Green feels she did a great job in boosting Nikki’s confidence and that she turned out to be the perfect opponent for Bella.
Here’s what Chelsea Green said:
“It was so surreal, and it was surreal for so many reasons. I think that’s a really, really proud moment of mine because someone, and I think Nikki, trusted me with her first singles match back. And no matter what, that was always going to be an extremely tough decision to be put in, for her, for her opponent, and for the producers. She is the epitomy of women’s wrestling. You don’t get any higher than Nikki Bella. You just don’t. So many eyes wanted her to succeed, so many eyes wanted her to fail, and so, I just wanted to do her legacy justice. I didn’t want her to come back and feel ashamed or embarrassed. I wanted to feel empowered in that moment, and I did the absolute best I could to make her feel that way. And I think I was the perfect opponent to put her over and to have her confidence boosted. And now look at her. Now she’s, like, Nikki Bella, like she never left.” [5:35 onward]
Check out the conversation below:
Nikki Bella recently turned heel and is now set to challenge Stephanie Vaquer for the Women’s World Championship at this weekend’s Survivor Series: WarGames.
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