Add as a preferred source on Google Ethan Page revealed he tried to convince WWE to let him defend the NXT North American Championship on Canadian soil while TNA was running shows there.
He won the title by defeating Ricky Saints on the May 27, 2025, episode of NXT. That July, after retaining the belt at NXT Great American Bash, he debuted a custom design featuring the colors and leaf of the Canadian flag.
In a recent appearance on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Page said he wanted to lean all the way into his “greatest North American” persona by defending the title in the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
“100%. So, when we changed the championship to the Canadian design, I really, really, really wanted to go as hard in the paint I’m the greatest North American as I could, and we had no shows coming up in Canada. I think TNA actually had some shows coming up in Canada within the window, because I had pitched. I was like, I’ll go to TNA to defend the championship in Canada on shows. I’ll do it on an indie, because my original pitch was to wrestle in Alpha-1, obviously, so that I could get a championship defense in Mexico, Canada, and the US to be the greatest North American.”
“So the idea started there, and then from that, just through conversation, they’re like, ‘Wait, what? You have an indie company?’ I’m like, ‘I might have like something to do with it. But the first question out of Shawn’s mouth was, ‘What do you draw?’ I’m like, oh, okay, perfect! So I was like, okay, I’m not in trouble. What can we kind of get away with here? He was like, look, you could definitely go cut a promo, make an appearance, and the trade-off too. I was like, I have the local news, I can chat with the local news to one, obviously promote my appearance the next day. Shout out CHCH, so we end up doing that, but I’m promoting Netflix because we’re all across Canada at the time with NXT. So they get something good out of it, I get something good out of it, something great, actually. So it was a dream come true.”
WWE never signed off on a defense at Alpha-1 or in TNA. That same month, TNA ran two shows in Edmonton, Canada, on September 26 and 27. Page didn’t end up wrestling on either show, but he later defended the title against TNA’s Moose on NXT.
His reign came to an end on February 24, 2026, when Myles Borne dethroned him, closing out a 273-day run with the title.