As seen at the 2022 WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view event, WWE Hall of Famers The Bella Twins made their in-ring returns in the women’s Rumble match.
During the latest edition of their podcast, the duo commented on hearing the “YES!” chants for Brie Bella when she was punching Natalya and Michelle McCool.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
Nikki Bella on when the YES! chants started for Brie Bella during the Royal Rumble: “Everyone got chills in Gorilla. The camera pulled back and they got this epic shot of you in the stadium and everyone doing it. Everyone got really emotional when you were doing that.”
Brie Bella on what the moment was like for her: “When I started to hear people say ‘Yes!’…I ran in and I think I nailed Natalya and Michelle McCool. I started to hear the fans chanting ‘Yes!’ and in my head, I’m like, ‘I’m going to go with this.’ I was going to go into my Brie Mode me, but I’m like, ‘No, I’m gonna go with the Yes chant.’ The one thing about my husband, he has a huge presence, and when I hear the ‘Yes!’ chant, I immediately thing of him. It made me feel him in that moment. When I do the ‘Yes!’ chant, I don’t do it for myself. I do it because I feel my husband in that moment. My husband, to me, is more than just Daniel Bryan or Bryan Danielson, he’s a soulmate. Feeling that energy of the crowd, it makes me get teary-eyed and emotional when I do that because it’s like he’s right next to me.”
Nikki on why it was special: “That’s what I love about what we do is because we can blend those moments of real life and characters. That’s the beauty of WWE; real life and characters that come together and that’s the ‘Yes!’ chant. It’s the representation of Daniel Bryan that was in WWE forever and also, Daniel Bryan that married Brie Bella and had this whole iconic, beautiful love story on Total Divas and Total Bellas, but also comes to the ring and is real. The fans started chanting ‘Yes!’ because it means something to them too. If you didn’t join in on that, you’re just killing the moment of them and why they paid for a ticket and came.”
(h/t – Fightful)
