Nikki & Brie Bella Are Changing Their Names & Leaving WWE as Part of 'New Chapter'

Nikki and Brie Bella will no longer be known as the “Bella Twins” moving forward.

The beloved WWE wrestlers have announced that they are leaving the organization and will also be leaving their wrestling names behind.

“Our listeners and everyone in the world right now is asking ‘Why?’ You had this amazing name that you got from your grandfather, Pop Pop, who’d always call us ‘my bellas, my bellas.’ And so why after 17 years is that gone? Brie and I almost 40, we’re gonna be 40 in November. We’re mothers, we’re entrepreneurs. We’re executive producers. We’re starring now, we’re hosting shows. And when our contracts, when our contract came up with WWE mutually we all knew like we just needed to head into this new chapter,” Nikki said on the SiriusXM podcast The Nikki and Brie Show.

So, what will they be known as now?

Keep reading to find out more…

The twins will be going by their given names of Nikki Garcia and Brie Garcia.

Brie said, “I just wanna thank Brie Bella. Brie Bella, the character that, the name, all of it. That I have been the last, you know, pretty much almost, I don’t know, 16, 17 years. I am so excited to close that chapter on Brie Bella. Put that book to the side and open up a new one and see what Brie Garcia’s gonna do next.”

Nikki added, “And I am so beyond grateful for Nikki Bella, Nikki Bella, whoa. She empowered me. She inspired me. She truly made me become fearless and the road that she has paved and what she’s done for women and the youth and will continue to do just as Nikki Garcia.”

Did you know that Nikki just recently got married?