WWE Champion believes working with The Rock helped him change.
Arriving in WWE from AEW last year, Ethan Page was quickly able to make a name for himself. Within just days of his NXT debut, Page became the NXT Champion, before winning the North American Championship earlier this year.
One of the most despised heels on the roster, Page, also shared a brief segment with The Rock earlier this year during the New Year’s Evil show. Recently, during his interview with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, the current North American Champion revealed how working that segment with The Final Boss helped him turn into “an absolute menace”.
“To me, doing anything with him was always the dream. I was very fortunate enough to be given the chance to pull him to the side and tell him what it meant to see something that I created on my own and envisioned my whole life would be on screen with my favorites. To do it with my actual number one, and in the position that he’s in, and what he’s been doing for the last couple of years. The amount of things that needed to fall into place for this to happen, pretty crazy.
But I was very glad that I was able to express that to him and to get some one-on-one time, and then it just kept extending, he gave me great advice, and he’s turned me into an absolute menace. Because, I mean, when the person you look up to the most, pretty much tells you to not hold back. Yeah, you ain’t gonna hold back. I’m sorry Ricky Saints about your throat.”
Page is currently involved in a heated rivalry against another former AEW star, Ricky Saints.
Ethan Page Reveals How The Rock Inspired Him
In the same interview with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Ethan Page opened up on how The Rock inspired him in his pro-wrestling career.
“Quite a bit, honestly. Mostly, I would say just in the confidence to say and do whatever you feel like out there, like on a microphone or in front of an audience. He’s someone that’s completely comfortable in doing some ridiculous things, or what he finds entertaining, or what he finds funny, but he’s always, I feel like just at that perfect level of charisma, and I tried to keep the energy the same and give people their money’s worth when I’m entertaining them.”
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