The Real Reason Paige Retired From The WWE

Paige was the WWE’s Anti-Diva: A goth girl whose rocker garb and unassuming attitude challenged the company’s long-standing tradition of buxom, glittery female wrestlers who looked like cheerleaders. She wasn’t about to let those stereotypes stand in her way, especially when she had in-ring talents and wasn’t just another cookie-cutter pretty face. As a result, she tore through the WWE’s roster of Divas, which was what the company called its female wrestlers at that point, with such efficiency that the WWE itself credits her refreshingly different image and talent with playing a significant part in ushering the company to a new, more enticing age of women’s pro wrestling. Which leaves fans with one question: Why isn’t she still ruling the roost in the women’s division? What made Paige quit and retire from the WWE? Okay, that’s two questions, but, the ultimate reason for Paige’s retirement from in-ring action was a series of accumulated neck injuries, as t