Ethan Page: I Got An Email From WWE In 2020 Saying They Would Never Hire Me

In 2020, Ethan Page made the decision to leave TNA Wrestling after three years. As the pandemic was in full swing, Page plotted what he was going to do next, and he didn’t think WWE was going to be an option.

Ever.

“I have this clip, and I’ve texted to a couple people, because I’ve filmed everything in my life, pretty much, especially when I started,” Ethan Page recalled while speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight. “When I was with Evolve, my wife convinced me to get a GoPro and start vlogging, but I had no clue what I was doing, so I just have random footage from back in Evolve, then all through TNA, all through Japan, England, all through AEW. I like pretty much filmed as much of it as I could for YouTube, and there was the time I was leaving TNA, and I decided not to stay. In that window, I had gotten an email while in Nashville, recording the show for Impact, and the email was from WWE, telling me that they’re never going to hire me. So I had my camera, and I’m vlogging. I read the email, and I’m like, oh man, what am I going to do? I just told Impact that I’m not staying. AEW was a possible option, but nothing was concrete. Then I get this email being like, ‘Yeah, we’re not hiring you, just stop.’ Pretty much this is the end of the road, it’s not gonna happen, just let it go. So I filmed myself right after reading the email, and then had a conversation with myself documenting it, pretty much being like, ‘You gonna be okay with this, or are you gonna like shove it up their ass?’”

Page did make it to WWE in 2024, and is now on the main roster as a member of the WWE Raw roster.

Elsewhere during the interview, Page commented on his backstage segment with The Rock. You can find his full comments here.