Ethan Page had a plan in place if he walked away from wrestling.
Page has quickly made a name for himself since debuting for NXT back in May, as he's won the NXT Championship just a little over a month after signing with the company.
In the past, Page has talked about how he's doubted his career path in the past and how he's come close to leaving the wrestling industry on a few occasions. While speaking to Rich Ucchino of The Takedown On Sports Illustrated for a new interview, Page was asked to talk about what he would be doing now if he had made the choice to quit wrestling.
“I’ve had this conversation with my wife, I was going to say a thousand times but I’m going to give you an honest probably 15 times, like a genuine, ‘What should we do? I don’t know if this is it, maybe I should look into this.’ The YouTube channel was a really big part of that in trying to almost give myself an exit plan. I don’t know if that hurt me or helped me because now where i'm at right now, I don’t want to say given up on all outside projects, I still have a comic book coming out, I would still like to do YouTube projects, but this was my ultimate goal was getting to WWE. Now that I’m here, for me to have anything diverting my focus from here would just be a distraction so I’m at a little bit a different place. If I wasn’t here and everything kind of flopped, I probably would’ve have started a YouTube channel or podcast and just ripped apart professional wrestling and burned a bunch of bridges and made a bunch of money just telling stories I probably never should have told. Anyone’s career that I did not explode on my hypothetical YouTube channel, you can all thank Shawn Michaels for saving your careers because I definitely would have told everything. Anyone listening to this, make sure I don’t retire or you’re all screwed [laughs].”
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