Ethan Page explains why he wanted to be part of ROH.
After failing to capture the AEW World Title from MJF on the June 29 episode of AEW Collision, Page wrestled only three times in July and August, none of which were singles bouts. In September, he began appearing regularly on ROH TV, keeping active on the brand with singles matches almost every week.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Page explained why he wanted to move to ROH.
"If I'm putting something out [on YouTube], it's something that inspired me. And also, I've decided to kind of, once I realised that like the last time we did an interview, I was doing American Top Team stuff, things were going fantastic. Not to say that I'm not happy. I just noticed a change in my career and I realised that I really needed to start focusing on professional wrestling more and dedicating myself to that, which is actually why I requested to do the Ring of Honor stuff because our roster has grown so big that the opportunities to be physically active in the ring come a lot less. And that's just the nature of the beast, Tony wants to have the best wrestlers in the world, and I commend them for it, we have them all. But the matches come less. So I wanted to be more active. And as I age, I started to notice that my body was starting to feel a little bit tighter. And when you're not wrestling as often your body is just adjusting differently. So I was like, okay, dude, you're either going to end your career by just getting stagnant and fatter and more depressed. And like, I could have definitely kept continuing to do the YouTube videos and selling ads through an agency and I was doing very well and things were great. But that was kind of my full-time job. And then everything else kind of took a backseat in the trajectory of that, if that makes any sense," he said.
Page is set to sign his contract to face Tony Nese at ROH Final Battle on Thursday's ROH on HonorClub.
Page will face Kenny Omega on Saturday's AEW Collision.
Thanks to Chris Van Vliet for sending in the quotes.
