Saraya On Returning to WWE As Paige, Neck Injury, "Fighting With My Family", Sobriety, Mercedes Mone

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Chris Van Vliet

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Saraya (@Saraya) is a professional wrestler best known for her time in WWE as Paige. She sits down with Chris Van Vliet at West Coast Creative Studios in Hollywood, CA to discuss the decision behind leaving AEW and what's next, her current contract status, if returning to WWE could be possible, wanting to wrestle as Paige again, being cleared to wrestle after suffering a career ending neck injury, the movie "Fighting With My Family" being made based on her life, winning the Divas Championship on her main roster debut, being in promo class with Roman Reigns while in NXT, her book "Hell in Boots: Clawing My Way Through Nine Lives" and more!

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet.
0:04.0	Uh, yes, welcome back to another one here on Insight. I'm CBV,
0:25.6	Chris Van Fleet. Thank you for joining us on this episode. And thank you for making
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0:53.8	So I will thank you in advance just for you considering doing that, just for the idea of
1:00.2	you thinking about it.
1:02.0	Thank you for that.
1:03.3	Saraya is on the show today.
1:05.8	You may know her best from her time in WWE as page.
1:09.4	And what a list of accolade she has.
1:11.6	She's the inaugural NXT women's champion, the youngest ever divas champion.
1:17.4	You'll remember she won that in her main roster debut.
1:20.8	She's also a former AW women's world champion.
1:25.3	And who knows what's next for her?
1:27.0	Because she's now a free agent. She
1:28.9	officially left AW in March. And she told me during this interview that she's very open to the
1:35.6	idea of going back to WWE and that she misses Paige. And all I'm saying is evolution is this weekend.
1:47.6	Coincidence? Maybe. I don't know. I guess we'll find out when evolution happens, but it'd be great to see her back in WWE. Her book, by the way,
1:54.6	is fantastic. It's called Helen Boots, clawing my way through nine lives, get it wherever
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