The Rock Told Ethan Page To Never Second Guess Himself
At NXT New Year’s Evil 2025, The Rock and Ethan Page had a backstage segment that also involved The Rock’s daughter Ava.
In the segment, Rock praised Page, saying he would see him up on the main roster.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Page reflected on the segment.
“That whole experience was fantastic. I would say the best part was getting to be able to tell him, ‘Hey, when I started all this, the number one goal was seeing what I created on screen with what I admired.’ He was the absolute pinnacle of what I admire from professional wrestling. So he’s, to me, the best. So to get to see what I cultivated in wrestling on screen with my number one wrestler. I mean, there’s nothing else that I need to do, unless he wants to have a match with me.
Come on Rock, put your little underwear on. Let’s do it. Everybody wants to see your hamstrings. Anyways, that was an unreal experience. So I got to tell him that it was very, very good experience. I’m very happy that I could actually share that with him, and just be like, hey, I’m very proud of this. I wanted to say thanks, it was very great. But there was an interaction we had when we were going through everything and the situation is very interesting. So I ended up putting my hand up like I was in school because they were debating on like how to handle something, so I was like, ‘May I make a suggestion?’ They’re like yeah sure go ahead. So I say what I say, and they go, ‘Yep, that’s good. We’ll just do that.’ So after the interview, Rock’s like, ‘Hey, don’t ever second-guess yourself ever again. If you think it and if you feel it, say it. Worst is we say no.’ I was like, oh, okay. So I’ve definitely taken that with me going forward through the rest of my career in WWE, and it’s definitely helped me.”
Page would end up on the main roster just over a year later, debuting on Raw after WrestleMania 42.
Elsewhere during the interview, Page discussed his NXT North American Title run. You can find his full comments here.
