• Becky Lynch Comments On Paige’s WWE Run Coming To An End
The WWE contract of former Divas Champion Paige has expired and she’s officially a free agent now.
She wrote a goodbye letter on Players’ Tribune. You can read an excerpt from it below:
“The truth is, it was easy enough for WWE to get behind me in those early days.
I was a young woman who could wrestle at a high level and cut good promos and move loads of merch — I was probably one of their top assets, you know what I mean? And you don’t learn much about people from how they treat you when you’re on top.
You learn about people’s true nature, I’ve found, from how they treat you when you’re closer to the bottom.
And a few years ago I got pretty close to the bottom.
It was like, almost overnight, so many things changed: Suddenly my neck was f**ked and I couldn’t wrestle. I popped a drug test. My $ex tape leaked. I got depressed. I started drinking. And I became less of an asset to WWE, and more of a liability, for a long time. I’m sure of it.
But they never lost faith in me — they never once threw me off to the side. They got me the help I needed when I needed help, and they gave me the time and space I needed when I needed time and space.
They even gave me a full segment on RAW to announce my in-ring retirement. I’ll cherish that for the rest of my life. Not just getting to make the announcement like I did, but also the respect it showed on WWE’s part, that they viewed me as worthy of that kind of treatment — the kind normally reserved for an Edge, or a Daniel Bryan, or an HBK, or a Hunter.
That they viewed me as someone who’d built a legacy of her own.”
That’s a wrap @WWE see ya again some time! Thanks everyone for the support before, during and now after! Let’s see what the future holds! And thanks @PlayersTribune for this awesome goodbye letter – https://t.co/eR80o6uAy3
— SARAYA (@RealPaigeWWE) July 6, 2022
Former Women’s Champion Becky Lynch tweeted the following about Paige’s career:
“I met Saraya when she was only 13 years old. Even then you could tell that she was going to be a star.
Before she could legally drink in America, she had changed the game completely and forever. #ThankYouPaige”
WATCH: Paige’s Big Knockers (Part 1):
• ON THIS DAY IN WCW HISTORY (July 7, 1997) – WCW MONDAY NITRO
On this day in 1997, Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling aired another LIVE episode of their weekly TV show ‘WCW MONDAY NITRO’.
It was broadcasted from the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee and featured matches & storyline segments on the road to the ‘WCW Bash at the Beach 1997 PPV.
The card can be found here:
Public Enemy vs. Harlem Heat
Konnan vs. Joe Gomez
Juventud Guerrera & Hector Garza vs. Villano IV & V
Buff Bagwell & Scott Norton vs. Chavo Jr. & Eddie Guerrero
Diamond Dallas Page vs. Randy Savage
Psychosis & Silver King vs. Glacier & Ernest Miller
The Steiner Brothers vs. Chris Benoit & Steve McMichael
