{"id":458060,"date":"2019-03-25T17:28:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T18:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=458060"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:20:51","slug":"nikki-bella-retires-from-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=458060","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Bella retires from WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Sisters Nikki and Brie Bella attend \" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-license-id=\"579538\" data-portal-copyright=\"Jon Kopaloff\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bellasisters1000-1.jpg\" title=\"Sisters Nikki and Brie Bella attend \" \/><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/canoe.com\/tag\/nikki-bella\">Nikki Bella<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                         has announced her retirement from wrestling after 12 years in the ring. <\/p>\n<p> The WWE star confirmed the news on the season finale of her reality TV series Total Bellas on Sunday night. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe (European) tour was good but I feel like I\u2019m too old for the travel, the travel was really rough,\u201d she said. \u201cI was like, \u2018Why am I doing this? I don\u2019t feel good.\u2019 The girls are doing amazing things over there. I really am ready to hang up the jersey, I can say it fully.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Bella\u2019s decision comes after her twin sister Brie, with whom she worked as The Bella Twins, officially declared her plans to retire from wrestling earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p> The 35-year-old, whose last televised match saw her lose against Ronda Rousey last October, is now planning to turn her attention to other business interests, such as a clothing brand and wine label. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cBeing on the European tour, I\u2019ve had a lot of time to think,\u201d she explained. \u201cJust how my body feels, being away from my company, how time-consuming this is. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt\u2019s making me realize, I\u2019m ready to fold the jersey and put it away. I\u2019m ready to put the kicks aside and I\u2019m ready to take Nikki Bella into a different direction.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Nikki, who split from fiance <\/p>\n<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/canoe.com\/tag\/john-cena\">John Cena<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                         in April 2018, is also planning to launch a podcast. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Nikki Bella has announced her retirement from wrestling after 12 years in the ring. The WWE star confirmed the news on the season finale of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=458060\" title=\"Nikki Bella retires from WWE\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":458062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458065,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458060\/revisions\/458065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/458062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}