Nikki Bella was recently on a panel at the ACE Comic-Con in Chicago. It turns out that Nikki isn’t a big fan of the ‘Divas’ name, even though it is a brand that she is closely linked to.
Here are some of Nikki’s comments from the panel (quotes below via Cageside Seats):
“I need to have a reign that outbeats the Divas championships so I’m not always called a Diva and then one day I can actually be called a Raw Women’s champion, so I got red in my eyes and I’m looking for that championship at Evolution.”
On her first impression of the Divas Title (the butterfly belt):
“And believe me as girls even in the past, I remember when they brought out the butterfly championship and we were all kind of like, ‘Oh.’ We weren’t expecting it… it’s totally cute, but it wasn’t like what the women were craving. They were craving what it is now. So that’s why Evolution is so beautiful, cause it’s the women of the past, also the future and the present fighting – you know, everyone gets to be at one show with that same vision. It’s finally coming to life.”
On wanting to change the name of ‘Total Divas’:
“Being an executive producer on Total Divas, we’ve had so many discussions about changing the name of the show and unfortunately, it’s on network TV, you can’t just change the name one day. So they have felt that people will still be connected with it even though it’s called Total Divas. I feel like the opposite – I feel like there’s a huge disconnect, because we’ve made that name so bad.”
Some pretty interesting comments from Nikki. Let us your thoughts in the comment section below.
On a related note, here are our 9 booking steps for the RAW Women’s Championship from now until Wrestlemania 35.