Paige Says WWE Is “My Home Forever” After Winning Women’s Tag Titles With Brie Bella at WrestleMania 42

Paige is a WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion in her first match back with the company since 2017 — and at the post-show following WrestleMania 42 Night One, she addressed the full emotional weight of a moment that seven years ago seemed permanently impossible.

“WWE is my home, I was raised here, I’m a WWE girl forever, and a Total Diva. I didn’t know how anyone was gonna react, I’m walking out there, I forgot how big WrestleManias were. It was magical, it was surreal, I forgot how to skip at one point. I was like, ‘What do I do? What does Paige do?'” she said. The moment she described — standing at the top of the WrestleMania entrance ramp, facing tens of thousands of fans, momentarily forgetting how to perform the skip that has always been her signature — encapsulates everything about what this return means. Nikki Bella also spoke at the post-show, revealing that Paige was the only person she and Brie felt right about choosing as a replacement. Nikki said she could not allow Brie to lose her WrestleMania moment because of her own injury, and that bringing Paige in was the only decision that made sense.

Paige and Brie Bella Are New WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions After One of WrestleMania 42’s Most Emotional Matches

The result is one of the most remarkable championship victories in WrestleMania history — a performer told her career was permanently over in 2018 winning titles in her comeback match on the grandest stage in professional wrestling. Paige and Brie Bella defeated the Irresistible Forces, Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss, and Bayley and Lyra Valkyria to claim the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships in front of the Allegiant Stadium crowd.