Ethan Page Recalls Getting A Script With 1000+ Words On His First Or Second Day In NXT
Ethan Page was intimidated early on in WWE.
Page made his surprise debut for the company in May 2024, popping up on an episode of NXT and attacking Trick Williams in the process. In less than two full years, many fans would argue that Page has been one of the most successful names in NXT history.
It wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows to begin with for ‘All Ego’. In a new interview with The Knockturnal, Page recalled getting a script that had over a thousand words on his first or second day in NXT.
“Yeah, I mean right off the rip, I think my first day or second day there, I was handed a script and there was over a thousand words. It was a bunch of words that I had never used in my vocabulary before and it was very jarring. I had a quick chat with Shawn about it and he reassured me like, ‘Dude, don’t break some of these hard fast rules and if it’s the worst promo ever, the sun will rise again tomorrow and you’ll get another chance.’ He kind of just took the edge off and I realized like, ‘Okay, I don’t have to memorize every word, we just have to make sure that we really drive home all the key points that he wants for his show and just making sure it’s as good as possible. But yeah, it was definitely a culture shock to go from kind of a free flowing, ‘Ah, you have 60 seconds to say whatever you want’ to ‘Hey, you’re talking for 8 minutes straight and you have to say all of this.’ So yeah, a lot different but I welcome a challenge and I think the most exciting part about this job is to actually get nervous. I’m missing parts of that now. I miss how stressed out I was before doing that stuff, makes you feel alive.”
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