Ethan Page has a blunt message for fans upset that he changed his entrance theme: that was the whole idea.
Now on Raw and aligned with Rusev, Page saw WWE debut a remixed version of his “All Ego” theme at Saturday Night’s Main Event, stripping out the sing-along “ego” hook. Speaking on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Page said the fan reaction did not move him.
“I mean, good. Yeah, screw them, dude. It sucked,” Page said. “Everyone just wants to take everything and make it their own.”
Page said the catchy hook had become a problem, with crowds chanting over his entrance and turning the “ego” call into something else entirely.
“I come out and everyone was going ‘ego’ right away, and then they turned it into a*shole,” Page said. He explained that the chant gets censored on the broadcast, which cuts the audio and drowns out commentary from Booker T. “Nobody’s hearing what he’s saying because the crowd is doing what they want, because it’s censored. It’s literally they’re just cutting the audio.”
He said entire entrances had been swallowed up by it.
“I’ve had full entrances where you can’t hear anything. You just kind of see me smiling and mocking and pointing, and then once I get in the ring, the chant stops, and just boo,” Page said. “I wanted to take that away. It was too involved. Don’t involve yourself in my stuff, and I don’t want to be like everybody else.”
From there, Page turned his criticism on the rest of the roster and the current style of the product.
“I think everybody’s lame right now. All wrestlers right now are corny and lame, and I don’t want to be corny and lame, and I don’t want to cater to this pop pro wrestling garbage that’s happening right now,” Page said.
Asked if he had specific people in mind, Page did not back off.
“And if they think I’m talking about them, I am, and that’s just your insecurity showing, and I love it,” he said.
Page said he has no interest in the sing-along entrances that have become common.
“I don’t need people to sing along. I don’t need people to chant. I just want to have a nice, catchy tune that I can walk to the ring to,” Page said.
He added that he still likes the song itself, and that the current version is the product of a long back-and-forth.
“I went through seven iterations with a producer to be able to make that song what it was, and then once people took that from me, I was like, okay, well, we’ll change it again. Number eight,” Page said.
