The wrestling career of Paige featured more ups and downs at a young age than many of her peers faced in their entire careers. Paige signed with WWE after making her reputation on the United Kingdom independent wrestling circuit. WWE witnessed a few different chapters of Paige’s career since she got over relatively quickly.
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The stories to come out about Paige featured fascinating tidbits about her booking and life in the WWE landscape. Paige is still under contract with WWE today, but the controversy surrounding the company’s Twitch restrictions could see that ending. But what exactly went down in between the career-defining moments and memorable matches?
9 Wore Mask to Attend TNA Show in Crowd
Paige’s relationship with Alberto Del Rio turned out to be a huge regret when things ended ugly. However, the two were close enough at one point for Paige to risk getting in trouble with WWE to support him.
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Alberto’s TNA run saw Paige sitting in the crowd under a mask to watch him in a main event match. Fans took note of Paige and snapped pictures to unofficially confirm it. Paige didn’t get in hot water with WWE, but it clearly wasn’t an ideal move at the time.
8 Admitted Lying About Wellness Policy Suspension
The suspensions of both Paige and Alberto Del Rio both came one after another during the WWE wellness policy testing. Paige would get two suspensions in a short time for failing the drug test each time.
The social media posts of Paige implied she was clean and that it was a failure due to her not taking the test in the timeline given to her. Paige would later reveal she did get busted for drug use during a dark time and has since cleaned up her life for the better.
7 UK Documentary Inspired The Rock to Make Move About Her Life
The Rock didn’t always know he wanted to make a movie about Paige when seeing her debut. Paige’s family had a documentary made about them during her time preparing to move to the United States for WWE.
The Wrestlers: Fighting with my Family was the documentary that Rock watched and felt could be made into a movie. Rock used the same tagline as the movie name and put his studio behind the project of the film. Paige’s story made the big screen in 2019 as a successful movie project.
6 Didn't Know She Was Winning Divas Championship on Debut Until Hours Before
The debut of Paige on the main roster featured the best possible scenario unfolding. Paige answered AJ Lee’s open challenge for the Divas Championship on the important Raw episode one night after WrestleMania 30.
The fans reacted huge for Paige based on her NXT success and the title win was a massive moment. Paige has revealed that she didn’t realize she was winning the title until hours before the show that day. WWE informed Paige of the call-up, but no one could have expected winning a title in their first appearance.
5 Made Peace with Lana After Having Heat
Paige and Lana had a few public moments of tension when breaking down their issues on social media. Lana made strong accusations claiming that Paige bullied her in her early days of NXT since Paige was an established star.
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The reaction from Paige saw her saying Lana was lying and took exception to Lana trying to make her look bad. Both ladies eventually made peace and would become closer friends. Paige and Lana have nothing but praise for each other these days.
4 WWE Soured on Using Her With Kabuki Warriors Right Away
The tag team run of Asuka and Kairi Sane as the Kabuki Warriors started off with Paige as their manager. WWE was trying to find a new role for Paige after she was forced out of the ring due to injury and felt speaking for the two wrestlers that struggle with English could have been a good fit.
There was little chemistry between the three and WWE stopped using Paige as their manager when she was unable to attend a few shows. Asuka and Kairi found success without Paige and became successful Women’s Tag Team Champions before Sane left WWE.
3 Wasn't Informed About Reference in New Day/Usos Rap Battle
The private videos of Paige leaking caused a lot of difficulties in her life moving forward. Paige was away from WWE dealing with injuries. However, the entire scandal was referenced in a segment she didn’t foresee coming.
Xavier Woods being involved in one of the videos led to The Usos referencing it when making fun of him in a rap battle segment against New Day. WWE edited it out of the YouTube upload due to the controversy. Paige had no idea it would even be part of the segment since she wasn’t even there to give her input.
2 Triple H Personally Apologized for Insulting Joke
Paige publicly expressed anger and frustration towards Triple H for making a comment about her personal life. During an NXT UK press interview, Triple H joked that Paige might have a kid she doesn’t know about due to her wild lifestyle.
The complaints of Paige were that her boss making such a cruel joke towards her influences the fans to keep bringing up dark moments from her past. Triple H reached out to personally apologize to Paige and posted a message publicly on Twitter to express remorse.
1 Was Upset About Losing Smackdown GM Role
WWE seemed to find the right role for Paige when naming her the SmackDown General Manager. Paige retired from the ring around the time Daniel Bryan was cleared to compete. Bryan giving up the GM role meant Paige could easily slot in when WWE came up with the idea.
Paige did better than many expected since face GM characters were rare. The straight-forward style of Paige booking the matches fans wanted and holding her ground against heels worked. WWE ended the GM run of Paige when having Vince, Stephanie, Shane, and Triple H taking control of both shows. Paige was removed during a great run and expressed frustration on social media about missing the GM role.
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