Former WWE Intercontinental Champion Ryback recently spoke about Paige's career-threatening injury on an episode of his Conversation with The Big Guy Podcast:

"She has always been super sweet to me. She is a great girl," Ryback said. "During a live event, one of the other wrestlers kicked her and gave her a stinger, or what they thought was a stinger, but it alerted them with something else that was going on. She got into wrestling at a young age, she has been wrestling her whole life so it really sucks."

"For fans listening, wrestlers are human beings and I've always said that I have experienced things where I have my career taken away from me at different points and I was very fortunate to have left when I did to of found the issues that I had or else I would have been done," Ryback said. "You never know with medical advancements 10 years from now that they will find something, but as of right now she is done, and that sucks, but I hope that isn't true. She is an amazing talent and an amazing person."

"Hopefully WWE finds something for her in a non-wrestling role, something to keep her busy," he said. "She is on Total Divas and all that. Mentally it is going to be very tough for her; she has gone through a lot already, but hopefully she can remain optimistic. She comes from a wrestling family so all she knows is wrestling, but I hope she has other interests outside of wrestling that she can latch on to."