Ethan Page: Having Shawn Michaels as my WWE NXT boss is ‘the best’

Ethan Page is enjoying his time in WWE NXT so far.

Page debuted for the brand this spring, attacking Trick Williams on the May 28, 2024, episode. He’s been a featured part of the show since.

Page recently spoke to Sports Illustrated about working with Shawn Michaels, Terry Taylor, Fit Finlay, and others since joining the company. 

“Imagine starving for 18 years and then someone just gives you the keys to a grocery store. And they go, go ahead, you can have as much as you want. How much you’re going to take? I’m going to take as much as I can,” Page said of the resources WWE provides at the Performance Center. “I mean, yeah, I will pick the brains of anyone that I feel I should. I absolutely love working with Terry Taylor. I think his views on wrestling, I don’t know if they just align with mine, but it’s just what he says to me, makes sense, and it’s already made me (better) and I’ve only been here six months. I think it’s made me a better performer, a better wrestler, mentally, physically, in the ring as well.”

“I mean, Finlay, another guy that I feel — How are you not asking questions? I’ve never had a boss (Shawn Michaels) with that resume before. I’ve never had a boss that had a successful wrestling career first and then tried to guide others to have successful wrestling careers. So there’s like a perfect mutual respect there. I mean, it’s coming from the mouth of one of the greatest of all time, arguably the greatest of all time. So yeah, this is like a kid in a candy store where I’m being paid to walk around the candy store and eat candy. That’s just, that’s what it is. It’s the best.”

As far as who he’d like to face in the future, Page is interested in financially lucrative bouts against some of the biggest names in WWE.

“I mean, it looks like whatever is going to put the most amount of money in my pocket,” Page said of what a main roster run looks like for him WWE. “I’m 35. I gotta stack that cash up quick. I got two kids, hot Colombian wife. I’m just trying to make sure everyone’s happy and taken care of. For that to happen, I probably gotta brush shoulders with guys like Punk who screwed me. So, if he needs a special guest referee, I’m pretty special. I’d love to return the favor.”

“Me and Cody have history. I mean, it’s personal history. Even if I’m the only one that saw it. I’d love to get in there with him. Randy’s one of my favorite wrestlers growing up. I’m grown now, so I’d love to handle that. John Cena, he can get some too. He’s on a little bit of a time crunch, so that would be nice, Royal Rumble. Put that on the bucket list. WrestleMania, you said it. Let’s definitely do one of those. Then, there’s this show happening in Toronto. I think it’s called Elimination Chamber. Six guys got to be in that match. I don’t know. You could pick five, make one of them me, that’d be great. How long you want this list to be? I could go all day.”

The full interview is available here.

Page will be in the Iron Survivor match on Saturday’s PLE. Nathan Frazer, Wes Lee, and Je’Von Evans have also qualified, with a fifth participant TBD.