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Q&A with the New WWE Diva’s Champion Paige
New WWE Divas Champion
Paige
From NXT Woman’s Champion to the big leagues defeating Aj Lee on RAW on night after wrestleMania 30. Take a look into this Diva’s fast move to WWE.
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WWE.COM: What was your early exposure to wrestling like, growing up in a sports-entertainment family? PAIGE: I couldn’t really get a grasp on wrestling at a young age. I knew it was what my parents did, and they fought people. It scared the crap out of me, so I thought, “No, I can’t do that, I’ll get beaten up!” WWE.COM: What changed? PAIGE: When I got a little older, like, 10 or 11, my dad would run a training school every month, teaching people how to become wrestlers. I would get in the ring now and again and mess around with one of my brothers, and he’d teach me some stuff. I did that for a couple of years, until I was 13. My dad was running a show and one of the girls didn’t turn up. He said, “There will be eight other girls in the match, could you fill in just for today?” I was so scared, but as soon as I walked through the curtain I got this huge adrenaline rush and I got hooked straight away. And then my dad couldn’t keep me away. I knew this was what I wanted to do.
WWE.COM: When did you first get WWE’s attention? PAIGE: When I was 17, one of the talent scouts came to a show in England and said to me, “When do you turn 18?” It was in a couple of weeks, so he goes, “Okay, well, WWE is going to be here in November, would you like to come to the tryouts?” Of course I’d be there! An opportunity just to try out was amazing to me. I was freaking out. WWE.COM: What was your tryout like? PAIGE: I tried my best to be what I thought they wanted me to be. I went and I tanned, I dyed my hair, I took out all of my piercings, I wore color — I think it was a blue dress — I just wasn’t being me. And then I got there, and I’m looking at people that I’ve been watching on TV my whole life, like, “Oh my God, I’m surrounded by all of these amazing people and now I have to wrestle in front of them!?” I got a little scared on my tryout, and basically they told me that it wasn’t the right time and that I just wasn’t being me. They could see right through it. I wasn’t being myself, so I wasn’t comfortable. They just said that to be more confident, you need to be this, that and the other. So I said, “Okay, cool. I’ll do it.”
Paige
Real Name: Saraya-Jade Bevis August 17, 1992 (21) Height: 5’8” From: Norwich, England Signature Move: Paige-Turner, Ram-Paige, Scorpion Crosslock Career Highlights: Divas Champion, NXT Women’s Champion Debut: 2006
Paige is a raven-haired Diva who preaches a simple message: She wants to fight. She gained prominence inside the NXT Arena as the first NXT Women’s Champion. A driven competitor, she first began battling when she was 13, following her family of English wrestlers and has never looked back. On the April 7 edition of Raw, Paige stunned the WWE Universe by challenging – and ultimately defeating – AJ Lee to become the new Divas Champion! In doing so, not only did she become the youngest woman to ever win the butterfly-emblazoned title, but she is also the first to capture it in her Raw debut. She also makes history as the first Diva to hold both the NXT Women’s Championship and Divas Championship.
On the April 24 edition of WWE NXT, NXT General Manager JBL stripped Paige of the NXT Women’s Title and announced that there would be an NXT Divas Tournament for the NXT Women’s Championship. Overall, Paige is proud of her groundbreatking ways and has built her reputation on the back of a mean streak that only a villain like NXT commentator William Regal could appreciate, saying, “She will quite happily kick your head in, so why antagonize her?” At Extreme Rules 2014, Paige faced her first true test as Divas Champion, defending the title against the dangerous Tamina. The Diva of Tomorrow was up to the challenge, successfully retaining her championship after making Tamina submit to the Scorpion Crosslock.