{"id":362106,"date":"2025-12-21T16:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362106\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:21:09","slug":"sophie-cunningham-reveals-wwe-dream-match-nikki-bella-calls-out-wnba-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362106\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham Reveals WWE Dream Match, Nikki Bella Calls Out WNBA Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham entertained a possible pivot to the squared circle and already identified a preferred opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In an <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSdMsPPkm0w\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">interview<\/a> with sports broadcaster Bryanna Sompayrac, Cunningham said she&#8217;d want to come up with a ring name that was &#8220;spicy and feisty.&#8221; She also picked The Bella Twins as an ideal foe or tag team ally in a match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Nikki Bella responded in the comments to say, &#8220;I&#8217;ll take her on one on one\u2026 \ud83d\udc8b\ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Cunningham developed an on-court identity as the &#8220;enforcer&#8221; for Fever star Caitlin Clark, which helped her <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/01\/business\/sophie-cunningham-caitlin-clark-wnba.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">popularity surge<\/a> across the 2025 WNBA season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Los Angeles Lakers team governor Jeanie Buss, who&#8217;s a co-owner of Women of Wrestling, <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25230077-lakers-jeanie-buss-offers-wnbas-sophie-cunningham-women-wrestling-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said in July<\/a> she &#8220;would love to have&#8221; Cunningham make an appearance with the promotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The interest apparently goes higher than that. The WNBA veteran recently said on her Show Me Something podcast that WWE had reached out to her in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Cunningham didn&#8217;t specify what her involvement with WWE would&#8217;ve been.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A fan of the sport growing up, she&#8217;d probably be a natural inside a wrestling ring. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham entertained a possible pivot to the squared circle and already identified a preferred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-362106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}