In just four months since returning to WWE at the Royal Rumble, Brie Bella has captured the WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles alongside Paige and has been wrestling on a regular basis since becoming champion, a run that many fans didn’t expect to see from the 42-year-old. During a recent edition of “The Nikki & Brie Show,” Bella admitted that her time is limited in the ring, but has been satisfied with her work as of late, especially after being trained by her husband, former AEW World Champion Bryan Danielson.

“This run I’m doing in WWE, I know where I stand and how much longer I have and what it is. So I’m like, I don’t want to have any regrets,” she stated. “I feel like people are recognizing all the training I’m doing, especially Bryan’s my coach, and I think they are all seeing the inspiration of Bryan … he’s incredible and let me tell you, he’s hard on me, which is what I need. And he gives me hard feedback.” 

Knowing that she’s determined to not have any regrets during her last run with WWE, Bella also explained that she’s focused on defending the tag team titles as much as possible. “We’ve had a lot of title matches since WrestleMania. I think actually, I could be wrong, but the most out of any male or female since WrestleMania … any tag team that wants to fight us, we’re ready.”

Usually, Nikki Bella would be tagging with her sister, but the ankle injury she suffered in March has kept her out of action.

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The stars of All Elite Wrestling returned to Youngstown, Ohio for the June 6 episode of “AEW Collision,” where the company took another step towards the Forbidden Door pay-per-view which takes place on June 28. Divine Dominion retained their AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championships against TayJay, The Conglomeration kept hold of their AEW World Trios Championships by defeating La Faccion Ingobernable, and Hazuki advanced to the semi-finals of the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament by defeating Persephone, who was then attacked by Mercedes Mone as the show went off the air.

All of that action seemed to help AEW in this weekend’s TV ratings as Wrestlenomics, with data gathered by The Programming Insider, have confirmed that the June 6 episode of “Collision” averaged a total of 496,000 viewers. This is a big rise from the 360,000 viewers the May 30 episode averaged, and is in line with 498,000 viewers that watched the preempted one hour episode on May 27. The June 6 show was also 29% above the trailing four week average of 384,000 viewers, and is the highest average viewership “Collision” has earned in its regular Saturday night timeslot since the Grand Slam Australia special back in February.

There was also a big jump in the 18-49 demographic as “Collision” posted a 0.08 number, up from last week’s 0.05 number and back in line with the number posted after the preempted May 30 show. It’s also 33% above the trailing four week average of 0.06, and is the highest number posted in the demographic since the Slam Dunk episodes that aired on March 21 and 22 respectively. With all that said, “Collision” only ranked in joint 13th place for the prime time cable rankings for Saturday night, a night that was dominated by game three of the Stanley Cup finals which aired on ABC.

Brian “Road Dogg” James has discussed his WWE exit and what he intends to do in the business in the future. 

The veteran star recently spoke on “Busted Open,” discussing how he felt like he wasn’t contributing enough when part of WWE, but still enjoys wrestling and wants to be involved in it.

“I’m kind of calling my own shots now. I kind of want to do something, somewhere where — I still love wrestling, and I want to do wrestling, and I want to do it for somebody that wants it and needs it. And I feel like the WWE didn’t want it or need it anymore,” he said. “And I was complacent. I felt like I wasn’t earning — I was getting a check, but I felt like I wasn’t earning it, and I wasn’t having any fun either.”

The WWE Hall of Famer revealed that he was in WWE longer than he intended to, due to the fear of being unemployed. James is eager to get back in the business and discussed the kind of role that he is interested in.

“I think there’s a lot of smaller companies out there that would love to have me, and maybe not the same dollar figure, but I could help them and help their talent too. I am good at television wrestling. I’m not Bryan Danielson and I’m not The Rock, but what I can do is put on a great television show with wrestling involved in it and make it pretty,” he stated. “I’m going to help somebody before this year is up. I’m going to help somebody that’s smaller and that not only needs the help, but wants the help, wants to learn.”

He cited OVW as an example of a smaller promotion doing good work that could benefit from having someone like him help it improve. The tag team legend believes it is now time for him to give back to the business, arguing that not everything needs to be about money, particularly at his age.