Nikki Bella has racked up her fair share of injuries over the years, but one of them never really healed—and she says she still can’t feel her thumb because of it.
While chatting with Philadelphia Eagles star Landon Dickerson on The Nikki & Brie Show, Nikki casually showed off her thumb after the conversation turned to old injuries. That’s when she admitted she was supposed to have surgery years ago, but never went through with it, and she’s still dealing with the consequences today.
“Which I do see that, you know, I never—I was supposed to get my thumb done, and they never—wow. And look at that. It’s just completely out. You know, actually, I have no feeling now in it.”
Brie immediately wanted to know how it happened, and Nikki had no problem reliving the moment. She explained that it happened during a match while taking a victory roll, when her opponent kept rolling through the pin and her thumb got trapped underneath.
“Okay, so I was literally in a match, and there’s this super quick pin… the victory roll. And so, if you’re a bad guy, the good guy jumps on your shoulders and quickly flips through your legs and flips you, but puts you in a pin. And if they don’t go quick enough, it’s almost harder. And my opponent didn’t do it, but so as, like, we’re going through, my thumb got caught, but she still was going through and had me pinned, and my thumb was still, like, way back there. Oh no. And I came back and it was, like, hanging, and I was like, ‘Oh, you know, doc, like, hey, uh, yeah, my thumb.’ Like, ‘You’ll be fine.’ Still looks like it’s hanging. It is hanging. It never went back.”
The craziest part is Nikki says she never got it fixed. The thumb stayed out of place, she eventually lost all feeling in it, and that’s just how she’s lived with it ever since. She did joke that at least the injury didn’t take away everything, saying she can still grip things despite the permanent damage.
“Yeah. See, at least I still kind of have, like, my grip.”
Considering everything Nikki went through during her WWE career, it’s wild that one awkward pinning combination left her with a thumb she still can’t feel years later. It’s just another reminder that sometimes the injuries fans never hear about end up lasting the longest.
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