Nikki Bella’s identify is extra synonymous with wrestling than golf, however the WWE persona has lengthy been hitting the hyperlinks.
“My household, they’re all die-hard golfers, so I used to be at all times gifted golf golf equipment and outfits, after which I’d at all times do just a few classes,” Nikki, 38, advised The Publish on Wednesday. “I'd do golf right here and there, and I’ve at all times liked it, and each time I’d depart a match I'd at all times be like, ‘I want to do that extra,’ it’s simply discovering the time.”
Although Nikki has a jam-packed schedule nowadays, particularly as a mother to 1-year-old son Matteo, whom she shares together with her fiancé, “Dancing With the Stars” professional Artem Chigvintsev, she acquired to indicate off her swing in entrance of a star-studded crowd as a part of Nickelodeon’s Slime Cup. The occasion, which is able to air on the community Saturday, options 4 groups competing on a “Nick-ified” golf course — with slime, clearly — and the ultimate spherical going down contained in the Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles.
With a discipline chock-full of expertise, together with Giants operating again Saquon Barkley, Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert, professional golfers Collin Morikawa, Jon Rahm, and Lexi Thompson, amongst others, Nikki is grateful that she was in a position to name this yr’s PGA Championship winner, Justin Thomas, her associate.
“Oh my gosh, watching him play, he’d make it look really easy,” Nikki stated of Thomas, who logged his second main win in Could. “You can inform lots of people had been in awe of him.”
Although Thomas is a competitor at coronary heart — even on a slime-filled course — Nikki is happy for audiences to see a few of the PGA Tour’s largest names present a special aspect of themselves.
“It’s humorous as a result of we see these golfing guys in such a special form of mild, and then you definately’re going to place them within the Slime Cup, and also you suppose each gap is Nick-ified and so they must do ridiculous issues and it’s hilarious,” she stated. “However they’d nonetheless be aggressive with one another, simply seeing how Collin and Justin had been, nobody wished to lose.”
Whatever the final result, Nikki is already considering of how to ask Thomas to a future household golf match, notably the Pop-Pop Basic, in honor of her grandfather.
“What I actually hope sooner or later to do is be like, ‘Hey Justin, my household’s enjoying golf do you wish to be my associate?’ And simply present up with him,” she stated. “I by no means play it as a result of my household is so good, so I’m hoping possibly subsequent yr I can one way or the other bribe Justin to be my associate for the Pop-Pop Basic.”
Whereas golf is on Nikki’s thoughts in the mean time, wrestling isn’t far-off. In 2019, Nikki — who makes up the Bella Twins with sister Brie — introduced her retirement. Though the duo returned for the Royal Rumble earlier this yr, Nikki stated she’d be open to a doable closing run with Brie, who shares two younger kids together with her husband, AEW wrestler Bryan Danielson.
“We do have the hopes of sooner or later going again and difficult whoever are the tag-team champions and I don’t know when that day can be, however Brie and I positively discuss that sooner or later for certain. We've got one final run in us and we wish to return and compete for that,” she stated.
The Nickelodeon Slime Cup airs Saturday at 8 p.m.
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