Nikki Bella Addresses Criticisms Of WWE Survivor Series 2025 Championship Match

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WWE Hall of Famer Nikki Bella has addressed fans criticizing her Women’s World Championship match against Stephanie Vaquer at Survivor Series.

Nikki Bella vs Stephanie Vaquer was one of four matches to take place at the November 29 premium live event, with Vaquer ultimately retaining her gold after 12 minutes of action.

Speaking on The Nikki & Brie Show, Nikki Bella addressed criticisms of the match speed and technical ability she had seen online.

Noting that she and Vaquer’s focus was on their friends-turned-enemies story, Bella said:

“It’s so funny when I see online, they had to talk to me about this because I did say ‘Hey, I’m going to take the Devil’s Kiss how she wants, but watch online rip me apart saying I don’t know how to do it.’ They were like ‘Stop worrying about that.’ But it’s so funny as that’s exactly what happened. 

“I loved back in the day that you followed more along with the story and a feeling, so it wasn’t like you had an expectation of every match is just hardcore wrestling.

“You knew this is going to be the funny, quick three-minute match, and this is going to be the more intense 15 minute match, they all told different stories.

“That’s kind of what ours was, and I really liked it, but when people were (commenting on match speed), when they bring all that, you’re missing part of the story in it.

“We didn’t even have a lot of fast movement to go fast because that’s not what we were trying to do.

“It wasn’t about that, it was actually more about emotions between people who were friends and turned on each other. Yeah, they only had a few weeks to really tell that story, but it was supposed to have more emotion and really recognize that this person turned bad, and this person is good.”

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