{"id":138139,"date":"2025-07-14T18:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T22:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=138139"},"modified":"2025-07-14T18:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T22:02:19","slug":"nikki-bella-match-added-to-wwe-raw-tonight-as-comeback-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/07\/14\/nikki-bella-match-added-to-wwe-raw-tonight-as-comeback-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Bella Match Added to WWE Raw Tonight as Comeback Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out Evolution wasn&#8217;t just a one-time thing for Nikki Bella as a<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/07\/14\/preview-wwe-raw7-14-25-gauntlet-for-gunther\/\" target=\"_self\"> few hours before the show<\/a>, WWE announced that Nikki Bella would be back in action on Raw tonight for the first time in seven years. Bella&#8217;s opponent comes as no surprise as she&#8217;ll take on Chelsea Green following the animosity between the two during Sunday&#8217;s battle royal.<\/p>\n<h2>Nikki Bella Continues Her Comeback<\/h2>\n<p>When Bella returned for Evolution, various interviews she did hinted at this being more than just an appearance at the all-women&#8217;s PLE. Leading up to Evolution, it looked like Bella was set to face Liv Morgan but an unfortunate injury to the latter delayed that feud indefinitely. Instead, Bella will get back into the ring for her first singles match in nearly a decade against Green.<\/p>\n<p>The two are friends outside of the ring with Green even previously suggesting she would like to defend her then-United States Championship against Bella. According to her interview with Metro, Green suggested the two had talked about such a match and while they couldn&#8217;t pull things together in time for WrestleMania 41, Bella made it clear the dream match wouldn&#8217;t be off the table.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130361\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-130361 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/01\/50775197653.jpg\" alt=\"Nikki Bella Returns to WWE During Women's Royal Rumble\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/01\/50775197653.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/01\/50775197653-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/01\/50775197653-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikki Bella looks to continue her comeback tonight on Raw.<br \/>Credit: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now that the Hall of Famer is back, it remains to be seen what she has in store for the women&#8217;s division. She&#8217;ll start with Green, but after that, Bella could be gearing up to a SummerSlam match of her own.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013 Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><em><u><i>Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i> for more on Nikki Bella, WWE Raw tonight, and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><i>You can check out WWE programming on\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81788927\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>Netflix<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(Raw),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/wwe-friday-night-smackdown\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>USA Network<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(SmackDown),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwtv.com\/shows\/wwe-nxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>The CW<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(NXT),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/tubitv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>Tubi<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(WWE Evolve),\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aetv.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>A&amp;E<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(WWE Superstar Sunday \u2013 Rivals, WWE LFG, and Greatest Moments) and\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>Peacock<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>\u00a0(WWE Main Event as well as archives and premium live event streaming). Follow WWE on social media to relive top moments and matches on\u00a0<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>YouTube<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>, and catch fast-paced action on X (<\/i><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/events\/1773457579022155776?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><u><i>WWE Speed<\/i><\/u><\/em><\/a><em><i>).<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out Evolution wasn&#8217;t just a one-time thing for Nikki Bella as a few hours before the show, WWE announced that Nikki Bella would be back in action on Raw tonight for the first time in seven years. Bella&#8217;s opponent comes as no surprise as she&#8217;ll take on Chelsea Green following the animosity between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2418,"featured_media":138143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,2192,25,4,3,320],"tags":[571,254,3108],"class_list":["post-138139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-wrestling","category-raw","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","category-wwe-women","tag-chelsea-green","tag-nikki-bella","tag-wwe-evolution"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138144,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138139\/revisions\/138144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}