Former WWE star and a former two times WWE Divas champion Paige who is currently going by the name of Saraya in the AEW recently talked about her AEW debut and the pop surrounding it. The inaugural NXT Women’s champion also talked about the social media trolls.
Saraya made her professional wrestling debut in 2005 at the age of 13 only. She grew up in a wrestling family, her father is independent wrestling legend Ricky Knight and her mother is Sweet Saraya who is also an indie wrestling legend. Her brother Zac Zodiac is also quite famous on the Independent circuit. She went by the name of Britani Knight independent days.
Saraya Reflects On Her AEW Debut Reaction
In 2011 she got her biggest call as she was signed by WWE and she started on the Florida Championship Wrestling which was the development territory of WWE. Soon she moved to the NXT as WWE changed their development territory. She became the inaugural NXT Women’s champion and in a very short amount of time she became quite successful.
In 2014 she made her main roster debut on the RAW after WrestleMania episode and she won the WWE Divas championship on her debut. She was one of the biggest names of WWE during her time and she had been a two times WWE Divas champion. WWE had big plans for him after the women’s revolution but it 2016 she picked up a career threatening injury which forced her to retirement.
She appeared in some non wrestling roles after her in retirement. In 2022 she was declared fit to return to in ring action but in the month of June, she was released from her WWE contract. On September 2022, she made her AEW debut by her real name Saraya and surely she has a bright future lying ahead of herself in the AEW.
Paige who is currently going by the name of Saraya in the AEW recently spoke to Chris Van Vliet’s “INSIGHT” podcast where she talked about her AEW debut and the pop surrounding it. The inaugural NXT Women’s champion also talked about the social media trolls. She said;
“I have never had a pop like that before in my life, and I had a good reaction coming back the first time. I was like, I’m back, you know? That was crazy. And then like my debut just for the Divas Championship was crazy. Even when people didn’t know who I was back then you know, but it just felt really good to have just all the support from so many people. It just felt really good. I was like, man, they really did miss me.”
“Because again, you get in your head a lot. You’re like, Well, maybe not because social media is real. And then it’s, you know, the trolls that followed us on social media. You think the whole world hates here when in fact, it’s just like six people with different like multiple accounts just attacking you.”
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