In a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet as part of the INSIGHT With Chris Van Vliet podcast, WWE NXT Champion Ethan Page discussed several topics, including the WWE offering him a deal with the company after his contract with All Elite Wrestling expired.

“I took all those independent dates and I was just kind of betting on myself, trying to I guess get some upward momentum back into Ethan Page. I’m very big on following trends and patterns, and I could tell that I was on a downward tick and there wasn’t anything that was going to change there, so I had to kind of change my environment to be able to change my momentum.

I booked up, maybe I’m over exaggerating, but close to 70 shows for the remainder of 2024, and I did a great wrestling show in Winnipeg. On my layover from Winnipeg to Detroit, because I was landing in Detroit to drive for Wrestling REVOLVER in Dayton, Ohio, I got a phone call from a number that I didn’t have on my phone, they were like hi, is this Ethan Page, this is so and so from the WWE…yeah sure….we’d like to offer you a contract this long, this amount and I’m just like, this is not real, I just go, honestly that sounds fantastic.

They hung up on me, my phone rings instantly, hi this is so and so from WWE, and I was like whoa, wait that phone call I just got was real, and they said yeah and you agreed to everything, so we would like to e-mail the contract to you, have it signed, send it over and I’m like whoa, whoa, then I’m calling my wife, I think the WWE just offered me a job, I’m on my layover, like I’m about to land and I have to go do this show, but yeah, I think I’m going to work for the WWE.”

The full interview is available at this link.