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Speaker 1: Good morning, Ethan. How are you doing today?

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Speaker 2: I'm good. How you doing?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic. You've got to be amazed at where wrestling

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is today because when I was growing up, it was

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always hidden away on a far away TV station and

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it was out of Denver, Colorado, in all honesty, and

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and you know, and you just didn't find it unless

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your dad found it first.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough.

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Speaker 1: And then now, I mean, you got NXT being on

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the CW and you fighting around the country. This is

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amazing on where wrestling has grown too, well one percent.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you got the CW network getting us all

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across America. But I'm Canadian guy, and the fact that

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I can have anyone in my home country turn Netflix

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on in my face is the first thing they see.

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It's pretty incredible.

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Speaker 1: Dude. I grew up in Montana, so therefore I grew

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up on Canadian wrestling, the Heart Family, the Heart Foundation,

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everything up there. The Dynamite Kid. So man, I'm with you.

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I'm already on your team.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, But there's a different style of wrestling up there

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in Canada, and to me, you guys are more rugged

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than those that are here in the States. Do you

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see that and feel that I.

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Speaker 2: Do, And I don't think it's that we're more rugged.

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I think that we kind of have to scratch and

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claw to get out of Canada. Then we have to

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scratch and claw to kind of make a name in

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America and then find our way. So our path is

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a lot tougher. So by the time we actually make

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it where we need to make it, we're a little grizzled,

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we're a little fed up, and we're a little hungry.

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Speaker 1: But doesn't that really sharpen the skills of your showmanship,

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because I mean it's all about, you know, the entertainment

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value as well as the sport value.

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Speaker 2: There's not a single wrestler under contract to WW that's

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better than me at this job.

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Speaker 1: I like your attitude, man, I mean, you're you're solid

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with that attitude, aren't you.

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Speaker 2: Well, you could say it's attitude. I mean this is

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just naturally who I am.

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Speaker 1: I love that. But see, you know so many people there,

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they're hiders these days. And I believe that the real

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superheroes in this world are not on a on a

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big screen TV at a movie theater. It's you guys.

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You guys are the ones that are giving us that

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strengthen that energy to move forward.

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Speaker 2: I agree. I mean we're larger than life and to

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do what we do, we have to be athletic, we

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have to be showman's, we have to be professional travelers.

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We have to be able to suck it up when

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we're hurt or sick or not in the mood. Yeah,

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there's nobody like us.

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Speaker 1: How do you do that? Deal with that in the

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way of when when you're not in the mood, Because

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I talked to many people at many lectures about that,

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when you aren't in the mood, the show still must

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go on. What do you do to make that happen?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean I look at all the seats that

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are filled and people that spend their money, so there's

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no option. You got to go out there and perform.

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Speaker 1: How many knights are you on that on that ring?

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Speaker 2: So nights? I would say at least one or two

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in a rain though, I would say probably three to

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four days a week. Just saw a regular basis training,

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staying sharp, staying ready.

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Speaker 1: Do you do you go by the same rules that

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we did when I would do these taekwondo tournaments in

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the It's not if you get hurt, it's when you

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get hurt.

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Speaker 2: No, not for me, I actively just try and avoid it.

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I mean, there is just a general understanding of, yeah,

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this is gonna suck. I was making a joke to

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a wrestler yesterday that I would say, if I could

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stay at sixty percent consistently, then that's great. It's when

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you start dipping below sixty feeling like sixty percent, and

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then you know, you get some rest period you can

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get close to seventy eighty percent. But I understand that

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I'll never be one hundred percent ever again, for the

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rest of my life, and that's just a price that

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I'm willing to pay for who I am and what

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I get to do.

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Speaker 1: That is so true because I wish my soboym way

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back in the early part of the two thousands would

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have told me that kicking the bag and basically kicking

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another human being would actually put a big limp in

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my life at sixty three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean not wear and tear is real. Especially taekwondo,

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it's a lot of kicking.

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Speaker 1: It's it's which is kind of weird because when I

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first started out, it was it was in combat karate

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and Julio Hildeger would sit there and tell me, he says,

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you don't want to kick above the waist. You're going

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to be old one day and you're gonna barely get

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over the ankle. Learn how to kick the foot man,

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take the towers out.

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Speaker 2: I kick those legs out.

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Speaker 1: Is that what you guys study as well? Get those

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legs from beneath them and get on that canvas.

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Speaker 2: So I honestly have two black belts, one in karate

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one in taekwondo. So I trained for both my whole life,

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starting from four years old till about sixteen, and then

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transition to professional wrestling. So I have a extensive martial

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arts background.

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Speaker 1: Don't you like that mental stability that that it gives you,

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because you know, when you sit there and you complain

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about doing a pum say, it's like, oh, there's so

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many moves. But as you grow in life, you begin

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to enhance everything.

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Speaker 2: And I would say the mental was a big part

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of it. And I like even my children, I can't

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wait to get them into martial arts just because of

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the respect and kind of how they humble you. And

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it's just it's a way of life that I truly appreciate.

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Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with All Ego Ethan

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Page coming up next. Hey, thanks for coming back to

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my conversation with Ethan Page. We're talking about martial arts, well,

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even the mantras that we would always say right there

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at the beginning part of class. One that still sticks

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out to me is learn to love all living things. Now,

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my neighbors don't understand that because I have a very

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tall weeds in my yard. I just can't kill them.

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They're living.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, good one.

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Speaker 1: When you hear the term all ego, how did you

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feel when they started chanting that, Because it's like, I've

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never heard that in all my years of watching professional wrestling.

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Speaker 2: So I gave the name to myself.

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Speaker 1: Wow for for marketing reasons, for or just because it's like, Okay,

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I'm going to live up this role.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously marketing reasons, it sounded great with Ethan Page,

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All Ego Ethan Page, but for me it was trying

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to one the second someone hears your name, they understand

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everything you're about and what you bring to the table.

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And two I felt it really matched my presence and

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my energy, so it was kind of a perfect fit.

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Speaker 1: How did who do you take into that ring with you?

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Mentally and spiritually because you grew up in Canadian wrestling,

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but you also watched everything that was going on around

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the world. I mean, every time that I would step

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into the ring, I'm not gonna lie to you, I

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thought either Muhammad Ali or Rick Flair.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, so oh this might rub people the wrong

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way because I'm It's not that I don't want to

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give people their flowers. I legitimately don't think of anyone

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but myself. Nice Like there's like I would say, like,

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obviously there's influence, but that will all come, you know,

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when I'm in a different mental state in the locker

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room or in the I guess a preparation state. But

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when it comes time to performing and you know, you

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walk out the curtain, they say it's like, oh, once

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your music hits and you walk out, Like that's real,

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that's one hundred percent real. I don't think of anything

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other than just me and doing the job that I'm

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there to do. And everything that I do is reactive

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and very what naturally I feel I would do, And

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that's just like I'm very much me when I'm out

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there performing, I'm not really focused on anyone else or

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thinking about anyone else.

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Speaker 1: Is there a ritual that you go through before you

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go out there? For instance, like when I come into

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the studio, I always touch the autograph of Casey Caseum

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from American Top forty and Wolfman Jack that they are

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inspirations in radio. Is there something that you do as

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a ritual before you go out there?

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Speaker 2: The only thing I do. I'm Orthodox, So I'll do

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like a three finger crossed you know, father found only

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spirit but yet so that's about it. I'll pray and

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go out there and beat some mess. I guess it's

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not really like, I don't want to say ritual, but

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it's something that I've done since I started wrestling at

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sixteen years old and two thousand and six, I've never

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not done it before a match.

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Speaker 1: I totally get that, because I mean, when I sit

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down to do my daily writing, the first thing that

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I do is I write out my prayer. Nothing happens

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until that prayer has been written out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not a Yeah, there's no performance without that.

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Speaker 1: Now. One of the things that I know that professional

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wrestling does merch. They've got lots of merchandise. Where can

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people go to get your merch? Sir?

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Speaker 2: Thank goodness. WW is you know, one of the biggest

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entertainment companies in the world, and the second you put

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it into Google, there will be an ad to purchase

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a WW T shirt. I would just search Ethan Page

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merch or Eastern Page T shirt. I got an All

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Ego T shirt available with WW. And then there's another

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T shirt provider that we have in agreement with called

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five hundred Level and they have a very cool, I

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believe fan created t shirt. But there's March all over

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and if you're at the live events, I want to

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say there will probably be an all Ego T shirt

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in Houston available. So if you're there is coming Tuesday

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and Houston, make sure you grab an Ethan Page sure

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and celebrate with the North American champion, because That's what

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I'm coming there to do.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Please come back to this show anytime

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in the future, Ethan Sure.

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Speaker 2: If they set it up and they tell me to

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wake up early and come to interviews for two hours

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again and you're on the list, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Man, you'd be brilliant today.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Sarah, I will thank you