Nikki Garcia continues to tease her curiosity in returning to the ring.
Nikki Garcia has not wrestled because the 2022 Ladies’s Royal Rumble, the place she returned in a one-off after she retired in 2018 on account of well being points. Since leaving WWE in 2023, Garcia has made it clear that she want to have a comeback in some unspecified time in the future.
Talking on the Nikki & Brie Present, Nikki and Brie Garcia mentioned Britt Baker’s profession with the AEW star. Nikki admitted that she missed wrestling, and Britt stated that she was proper there if Nikki needed to face her. (H/t Andrew Thompson of POST Wrestling for the transcription)
Britt Baker: You don’t need to miss it. It’s proper right here for you. Would you like it? As a result of I’m proper right here, when you want an opponent.
Nikki Garcia: I might come out of retirement for you.
Britt Baker: I might love nothing extra.
Nikki Garcia: You realize what? That is my one factor: Doing a comeback, as a result of I do wanna do a comeback in just a few years…
Nikki Garcia Was Shut To Calling Tony Khan
Nikki Garcia beforehand stated that she was about to name Tony Khan and decide to AEW after she noticed Mercedes Moné’s debut in March. Nevertheless, she in the end determined in opposition to it, as she defined on on the Nikki & Brie Present (by way of Fightful)
Since we’ve been lifting a lot, we all the time say, we all the time begin to get that wrestling mindset, ‘We’re going to return and do that story and lower this promo.’ You get it, however how severe I obtained the place I used to be like, ‘Okay, I believe I can do possibly a yr at AEW and I can do it each week.’ After I noticed Mercedes [Mone] debut and lower her promo, that line caught with me, ‘Right here, we’re going to make the evolution worldwide.’”
“I used to be like, ‘They do.’ It goes into many leagues, is what she means, it doesn’t need to be at one place. It may be in any respect these locations the place all these girls are wrestling at. I’m going, ‘Brie, I believe I can do it for a yr. I can do it right here to right here and go each week.’. Then, I considered Matteo. I had week of like, ‘That is it. I’m going to name Tony Khan. I’m your lady. I’ll commit.’ Then, I used to be like, ‘I can’t try this to my son proper now. He wants me.’”
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