Nikki Bella has revealed her Mount Rushmore of women’s wrestling.
One of the most decorated WWE stars of all-time, the 41-year-old recently returned to in-ring action earlier this year at the 2025 Royal Rumble.
A WWE Hall of Famer, Bella embraced her in-ring duties earlier this year ahead of Evolution 2.0. Now, a regular name on the weekly shows and PLEs, Bella recently appeared in an interview with SportBible, where she named her Mount Rushmore of women’s wrestling.
Adding Mae Young, Trish Stratus, Rhea Ripley, and Natalya to her list, Bella said,
“So my Mount Rushmore of female wrestlers are- now this is tough for me because I feel you could actually do a Mount Rushmore in every era of female wrestling. I feel like when you look at all the different eras of from when women’s wrestling started, there’s always an iconic four that have helped build a division or have taken the division to the next evolution of the division growing. So this one’s very hard for me to do, and there’s so many people I want to put on this.
First, so I’m going to try to pick maybe some from different generations. So let’s put on Mae Young for what she did for women’s wrestling and let’s… do Trish Stratus for what she’s done for women’s wrestling. So it’s like another generation, another era. If we’re gonna talk present right now, let’s put up Rhea Ripley for what she’s doing for women’s wrestling.
The fourth spot I thought about Becky Lynch, but she doesn’t deserve that. So we’re not gonna put up Becky Lynch and I mean, if she was on there, then I would definitely put my head on there to take over her spot. But I’ll just save that for our title match.
Maybe we could battle out who deserves to be on Mount Rushmore. The fourth one I’m going to put on for myself, it would be Nattie Neidhart because to put on someone who comes from a wrestling family, I think how being the only female from the Hart family to do what she’s done, to come from the dungeon.
She doesn’t get enough credit for what she’s done for women’s wrestling, but just how she’s carried on legacy and the pressure of that. So I think that definitely deserves a spot on my Mount Rushmore.”
H/t Fightful
However, her list was not well-received by fans on X (Twitter), who started calling out Bella’s decision to include certain names.
Rhea Ripley lmao. Wtf has Rhea Ripley done for women’s wrestling to be in the Mount Rushmore?
All misses no hits
Rhea Ripley is not to be on this list if we are being truthful to ourselves
No Chyna, Miss Jackie?? Natalya really!
Lmao Sneaking Natalya and Rhea there”
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