Brie Bella WWE Return Update

Bryan Danielson has shared an update on the potential in-ring return of his wife & WWE Hall of Famer Brie Bella.

At the beginning of 2025, WWE fans were treated with the in-ring return of Nikki Bella, with the former WWE Divas Champion making a surprise appearance as the number 30 entrant in the Women’s Royal Rumble.

With Nikki proceeding into a singles run that has seen her compete for both the Women’s Intercontinental Championship and Women’s World Title, fans have continuously speculated whether her twin sister Brie will eventually follow her and also make a WWE return.

Speaking about the possibility during a new interview with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Brie’s husband Bryan Danielson revealed that she would be interested in an in-ring return as long as it was for a run alongside Nikki, rather than as a singles star.

Danielson explained:

“Yeah, only in certain contexts. She doesn’t want to come back and do a singles run or anything like that. If she comes back, she would want to do it with Nicole.

“But I think there’s something in her too, and I can appreciate this, because our kids see her as just a mom, just a mom, as if that isn’t the hardest job in the world. Part of her, I think, has a desire to have the kids see her in that light too.

“I didn’t realize it until later, how amazing my mom was, right in the sense of, okay, we didn’t have any money. She was a single mom. She was working two jobs, going to college. I don’t know if it was my junior year or senior year of high school. She was going on a walk with a friend, and she just collapsed from exhaustion. She had to be taken to the hospital, to the emergency room. She was somebody who probably needed food stamps, but we lived in a small town, she didn’t want to [use them], she was ashamed. She didn’t want to go to the grocery store and pay with food stamps, all these sorts of things.

“My mom is also an inspiration to me. She went to college, got her master’s degree in psychology, and ended up working with underprivileged kids. She worked with the Native Americans. She worked in the prison. She got attacked in a prison being in a room with an inmate. You think about that, and you think of like, okay, I grew up knowing I was loved. Which is like, okay, Brie and I can fail at everything else in this life, but if we let our kids know that they’re loved. But all of that to say, I don’t understand how my mom did it. Now I’m in amazement, right? Because financially, we’re doing okay. We didn’t have any of the financial stressors that my mom had, and she still made a lot of time for us and like I said, made us know that we were loved.

“With Brie, this whole mom thing, one day our kids will realize what a great mom she is. But it’s fun to see when they don’t appreciate it. So it’s like, I was FaceTiming her and the kids this morning, and then just our son being as wild as he is, and then our daughter and part of me, but you never say that as a parent. You never say, “Do you realize how much I’m doing for you?””

Brie Bella hasn’t competed inside a ring since the 2022 Women’s Royal Rumble match, but did make an appearance at AEW All In London 2024 to watch Bryan Danielson become AEW World Champion for the first time.