When the lights come up for Monday Night RAW next week, Nikki Bella will officially tie AJ Lee as the longest-reigning Divas Champion.
Monday will mark 295 days of Bella being the best of the division as she defeated Lee to win the gold at the Survivor Series last November. Lee earned her record by holding the belt from June 2013 until April 2014, when she lost it to Paige, who was making her WWE debut.
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Lee retired from the WWE shortly after WrestleMania 31 due to the ongoing issues between Vince McMahon's organization and her husband, former WWE Superstar-turned-UFC fighter CM Punk.
Bella is set to tie Lee's mark on Monday and she spoke to Michael Cole in his WWE.com weekly interview about the feat.
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"It's been the best accomplishment in my life," Bella said. "There's nothing like when you have a dream and you can see it in your mind and then it comes true and it comes to life. It gives me chills even talking about it, but I feel as if I trained eight years for the Olympics and I'm finally getting that gold medal. There's just so much that goes through my mind, my emotions. I'm just glad it's already here. I can't believe on Monday I'm gonna be tied with the longest-reigning Divas Champion."
The WWE has added some intrigue to Bella's feat of trying to break the record as she must get through Charlotte on RAW. The Team PCB member won a Beat the Clock challenge to become the No. 1 contender two weeks ago on RAW, and the WWE opted to move the bout up from Night of Champions to next week's flagship show.
"Charlotte's great in NXT and that's where I truly feel she belongs," Bella said. "...I don't think she realizes how lucky she is because Charlotte has no idea how it is to be self-made. To come into this company and have no one believing in you. ...I had to work from the ground up, I didn't have a famous father. ...I am revolutionary."
For Bella to wake up Tuesday with a new record of 296 days on top, she'll have to get through Charlotte.
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