Paige recently spoke with Alicia Atout for A Music Blog, Yea! in Pittsburgh where she spoke about various topics including being forced to retire from in-ring action as well as her transition to being the General Manager of SmackDown Live.
Paige noted that it was a surprise to her because she knew it was coming as a week before the decision because they told her that it might happen. She then lost her voice and they told her if she didn’t regain her voice then she wouldn’t be making the announcement at all. She stated that she was able to get it back and made it but then was told by WWE management via a text that she needed to stay the next day for SmackDown Live, which she felt like it “was like putting salt in the wound.”
She continued by stating that once she showed up, Road Dogg was there and told her that she would be the GM of the blue brand. Once she walked out it was good and she got goosebumps. “I thought it was the end for me, and then it wasn’t. It was a beautiful beginning, I love what I do now.”
She was in a six-woman tag match back in late December at a live event that needed to be called off after she took a hard kick to the back from Sasha Banks that she wasn’t ready for and it stunned her. The early belief was it was just a mild stinger, leading to her losing feeling in her extremities.
WWE pulled her from the ring and set up further testing that led to the call being made that she would not be cleared by WWE doctors to wrestle again. It was a situation described as similar to Edge’s medical disqualification from competing in the ring.
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