WWE: Nikki Bella Ankle Injury & WrestleMania 42 Status Update, Roman Reigns on His Current WWE Career Goals & His Wrestling Career Future, Zoey Stark’s ACL, MCL, & Meniscus Injuries & Return Plans Update

Nikki Bella Ankle Injury & WrestleMania 42 Status Update

As noted before, Nikki Bella has been out of action for WWE since the March 27th WWE SmackDown show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania due to an ankle injury. Bella’s status for her scheduled Four-way tag team match with Brie Bella for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship at WrestleMania 42 is currently in doubt and WWE having backup plans in place for the Kabuki Warriors to potentially replace The Bellas in the match.

The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reported in Sunday’s Daily Update that his sources stated that Bella’s participation in the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship Four-way match at WrestleMania 42 is “too close to call” in regards to her status still being uncertain.

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Roman Reigns Comments on His Current WWE Career Goals & His Wrestling Career Future

Nico Leonard held a recent interview with Roman Reigns. One of the topics discussed included Reigns’ thoughts about if he currently has any goals left for his WWE career.

“I’m very happy with what I’ve done over the past few years, and I could hang my head on that. But I know I still have more to offer. There’s not any accolade I can win in wrestling now, but I can take a championship and then showcase what happens to a championship when you put it on a megastar. And that’s my goal is to showcase the difference between when I have a title and when everybody else has one.”

Reigns’ also gave his thoughts about the future of his wrestling career and if he has any retirement plans.

“I’m 40 years young. With everything that we have within sports science, nutrition, all the information we have, careers have been extended.

And then we also — you get to a point where you grind it out early in your career, and then once you get towards the back end, that equity kicks in, and then you get into a different ballpark as far as finances. And I’m not going to leave the park now. If the ATM machine is broken, you’re not going to run away from it. You’re just going to keep collecting that money. I still feel like, creatively, there is so much left for me to do. And there’s still a great deal of earning for me to take advantage of.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

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Zoey Stark’s ACL, MCL, & Meniscus Injuries & Return Plans Update

As noted before, Zoey Stark has been out of action for WWE since May of 2025 due to ACL, MCL, and meniscus injuries and surgery.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that his sources stated that Stark has been training at WWE’s Performance Center for her current recovery from her injuries.

Sapp reported that internally there has been an understanding within WWE that Stark’s return would not come before the one-year mark from her injuries and surgery, which is the typical timetable for injuries of this nature in professional wrestling.