Nikki Garcia desires to get again into the ring — she’s simply received to determine how and when.
The Whole Bella star, 41, broke the information whereas speaking about Mildred Burke, the legendary feminine wrestler who impressed the movie Queen of the Ring, on the Thursday, March 13 episode of The Nikki and Brie Show on SiriusXM.
Garcia shared her admiration for Burke and talked about how her story mirrored her personal drive to return to WWE.
“I do know at one level, I can be going again to WWE to do one thing, proper?” Garcia instructed her twin sister and cohost, Brie Garcia. “I do not know when, I do not know the story, however it will occur.”
The professional wrestling sisters made a reputation for themselves within the WWE and on their actuality TV present earlier than they retired from the group in 2023.
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On the podcast, Nikki mentioned her motivation to return was just like the sensation she had after she broke her neck in the course of the peak of her wrestling profession in 2015.
“It made me really feel like what I did after I broke my neck,” mentioned Nikki. “I had moments of like, “No, this is not going to be profession ending, I will come again.”
Nikki mentioned she was moved by Burke’s resilience in Queen of the Ring. (The movie, starring Emily Bett Rickards, portrays the obstacles the one mom battled as a way to turn out to be the primary million-dollar feminine athlete.) Nikki mentioned she admires that Burke was in a position to accomplish a lot, as she battled ageism, elevating a toddler on her personal and pushed by means of the psychological challenges of the game.
“It is thoughts over matter,” Nikki instructed Brie on the podcast. “Possibly you do not appear to be who the world champion is, or perhaps you are not the age of this new individual that everybody’s taking a look at, however that does not imply what you are able to do and conquer and obtain is over.”
Nikki added that with psychological willpower, “you’ll be able to conquer something.”
The TV character has had her personal challenges as a mother.
She filed for divorce in September 2024, shortly after her husband Artem Chigvintsev was arrested on suspicion of home violence at their Napa Valley residence. The district legal professional later declined to press costs, citing an absence of proof.
The exes, who share a 4-year-old son named Matteo, reached a settlement settlement in personal mediation in November 2024.
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In February, Brie instructed PEOPLE that the shift has been troublesome for her sister.
“It has been exhausting as a result of I am a fixer, so I need to repair it for her,” she defined. “I need to do it and I am very vocal, so I need to do it loudly and categorical myself. So I’ve to all the time be tame, which is difficult. It is exhausting since you hate seeing somebody you’re keen on undergo one thing exhausting.”
