PAIGE made a dramatic return to WWE to replace Nikki Bella in the Women’s Tag Team title match.
And she won the Women’s Tag Team titles in her first match back, hitting RamPaige on Alexa Bliss to pick up the win.
Paige is a champion in her first night back in the company
🚨 PAIGE IS BACK #WrestleMania pic.twitter.com/0sjfwDPRQz
— Wrestle Ops (@WrestleOps) April 18, 2026
The 33-year-old, who is still the youngest female champion in the company’s history and the inaugural NXT Women’s champion, left WWE in 2022.
Nikki Bella came to the top of the ramp to tell the crowd she was not medically cleared to compete after suffering a bad ankle injury on RAW the other week.
The WWE Hall of Famer revealed she called in an old friend to make sure her sister, Brie, did not miss out on her WrestleMania return.
Paige was welcomed with a huge pop as she strode out in the Allegiant Stadium Las Vegas.
The Norwich-born star spent three years in NXT upon leaving WWE and won their world title during All In at Wembley Stadium back in 2023.
But this is the first time she had wrestled in WWE in eight years.
She was originally forced to retire from after suffering a serious neck injury at the end of 2017.
That was also the same year where the Brit sadly had multiple explicit clips leak online marking one of the first major leaks from a professional wrestler.
She would go on to have on-screen roles in WWE, most notably as SmackDown general manager.
But her desire to wrestle again led to her leaving WWE when her contract expired and she managed 27 matches in AEW.
It’s remarkable to think she is still only 33. Paige certainly has plenty to offer WWE and her hard-hitting style has plenty of fresh women to work with since her last run.
Eze Chidiebere Paul
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