Raw star claims Ricky Saints was inches away from serious eye injury in defining WWE match
Ethan Page and Ricky Saints had a rivarly on NXT that was centered around the North American Championship. Page recently revealed that a brutal chair spot, during one of their title matches, almost cost Saints one of his eyes.
Page revealed on the Insight Podcast that a chair spot during an NXT North American Title match in May 2025 could’ve ended badly for his opponent. He stated Saints was inches away from suffering a nasty eye injury that might’ve had severe consequences.
“So it could have been worse. And I don’t know. I know you do these great clips, and this might be a little zoom in freeze frame moment for you, but he almost lost his eye,” said Page. “After he ends up injuring his trachea across the way the chair was, the way the chair fell. I give him a twisted grin and I’m trying to pull his throat down in between the legs of the chair.
“As I’m yanking him down, if you see the footage and you watch the leg closest to the camera, it literally grazes his cheek and you see his cheek after there’s a mark. He’s, it’s like purple, maybe like an inch to half an inch. He would have lost his eye.”
Page won the NXT North American Title from Saints on the May 27, 2025 episode of NXT, and he held the title for 273 days.
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Page also discussed his attack on Je’Von Evans on the December 17 edition of NXT, where he knocked out his teeth. He would call that a “pivotal” moment in his WWE career:
“That whole experience gave me something that I desperately needed in NXT, which was a very hard edge, and it gave the character something that it desperately needed for the NXT, I guess whatever time that I had in NXT. And that whole moment there was pivotal for Ethan Page.”
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