30 Surprising WWE Facts You Probably Didn't Know
22. Nikki Bella Almost Became A Pro Soccer Player Before WWE
Despite Nikki Bella’s significant improvement as an in-ring performer over the last year or two, it’s still very much a fan tradition to mock the Bella twins.
Chiefly, that extends to their odd way of pronouncing perfectly ordinary words, and their sub-standard acting ability: so categorically godawful that you could put a sticker on their car and call it a disability.
Sneered at for years for being the epitome of the WWE’s drive to recruit long legs and pretty faces over actual female wrestling talent, it might come as a surprise to some that Nikki Bella has always been a driven competitor.
At college, she was a key part of the women’s soccer team, one so successful that they won the Pacific Conference Championship.
Nikki was actually in the process of being headhunted by an Italian pro soccer league when Brie persuaded her that using the twin thing to get themselves noticed to be WWE Divas was a better shout for the pair of them.
The rest is badly-acted history. Killer forearm smash on Nikki, though.