Just in case you can’t fully appreciate what it took for Paige to perform that last walk-out, here’s what the woman herself has to say about the incident: “My neck just wasn’t as strong as it was before so I ended up getting temporary paralysis on my entire body. So, I am laying there in the middle of the ring, and I could feel it. I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to wrestle anymore. I had never had that done to me. I couldn’t feel anything, I just laid there. I wasn’t in any pain but I just started crying.” 

So, yeah. She took a hit so hard, it actually paralyzed her — but she still insisted in walking away with her own two feet. That’s dedication. What’s more, she never blamed Sasha Banks for the incident. On the contrary, she makes a point of stating that Banks was not at fault in any way — her own neck was just not at the level required to take these kinds of hits anymore. Banks, for her part, didn’t hide away and stayed on Paige’s side throughout the aftermath.

In the end, doctors told Paige that her spinal cord looked like it had been through a serious car crash, and gave her two options: Retire straight away, or power through a surgery and then retire. She picked the first choice, and while she found it incredibly difficult to adjust to a life after in-ring competition — which, remember, had been her whole life up to that point — she ultimately powered through.