Ethan Page Pitched To Defend NXT North American Title In TNA During Canada Tour
In 2025, Ethan Page captured the NXT North American Championship, defeating Ricky Saints on the May 27 episode of NXT.
After retaining the title at NXT Great American Bash, he introduced the custom Canadian North American Championship, paying tribute to his home country.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Page discussed the Canada-version of the title, and his ideas for it.
“100%. So, when we changed the championship to the Canadian design, I really, really, really wanted to go as hard in the paint I’m the greatest North American as I could, and we had no shows coming up in Canada. I think TNA actually had some shows coming up in Canada within the window, because I had pitched. I was like, I’ll go to TNA to defend the championship in Canada on shows. I’ll do it on an indie, because my original pitch was to wrestle in Alpha-1, obviously, so that I could get a championship defense in Mexico, Canada, and the US to be the greatest North American.
So the idea started there, and then from that, just through conversation, they’re like, ‘Wait, what? You have an indie company?’ I’m like, ‘I might have like something to do with it. But the first question out of Shawn’s mouth was, ‘What do you draw?’ I’m like, oh, okay, perfect! So I was like, okay, I’m not in trouble. What can we kind of get away with here? He was like, look, you could definitely go cut a promo, make an appearance, and the trade-off too. I was like, I have the local news, I can chat with the local news to one, obviously promote my appearance the next day. Shout out CHCH, so we end up doing that, but I’m promoting Netflix because we’re all across Canada at the time with NXT. So they get something good out of it, I get something good out of it, something great, actually. So it was a dream come true”
TNA did have a Canada tour in September 2025.
While Page did not defend the title on TNA programming, he did successfully defend the title against TNA wrestler Moose on NXT.
