JCW's Paige Collette Explains How In-Ring Bump Left Her Disabled

On a recent episode of LIVE JCWs Ring Rat with Vince Russo, Paige told the full story of how a routine bump during training under WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi became the moment everything changed. The move itself? Something wrestlers do in nearly every match. But for her, it activated a rare and devastating neurological disease known as CRPS Complex Regional Pain Syndrome sometimes referred to as the suicide disease. Paige explained that the injury happened during her time at KnokX Pro, while working a student match:

Despite the injury, Paige says her instinct kicked in and she tried to finish the match. According to her, Rikishi was the one who called it off:

What Paige didnt realize at the time was that the fall activated a debilitating disease that would go undiagnosed for nearly seven years. She says she visited 15 doctors across the country before finally being told the truth: she had CRPS, a condition that causes unrelenting, excruciating pain with no known cure.

Despite being wheelchair-bound, alone, and rejected by her family, Paige taught herself to walk again and is now back in the wrestling world still in pain, but refusing to give up. She says shes never taken a single opioid for the condition and relies on medical marijuana and sheer determination to keep going.

Paige is now writing a book called Wrestling with CRPS, documenting everything from her injury to her recovery, homelessness, and even a near-death experience she claims brought her face-to-face with Jesus.

This is more than just a story about wrestling its a story about survival. And Paige Collette is living proof that even when life takes everything from you, you can still get back up even if it means crawling at first.

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