{"id":134031,"date":"2025-04-19T13:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T17:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=134031"},"modified":"2025-04-19T13:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T17:28:58","slug":"nxt-stand-deliver-ricky-saints-retains-against-ethan-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/04\/19\/nxt-stand-deliver-ricky-saints-retains-against-ethan-page\/","title":{"rendered":"NXT Stand &#038; Deliver: Ricky Saints Retains Against Ethan Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before WWE WrestleMania 41 Saturday, NXT put on their Stand &amp; Deliver event. This took place at the T-Mobile Arena, and the opening contest saw Ricky Saints defend his NXT North American Championship against Ethan Page.<\/p>\n<h2>NXT North American Championship Match at NXT Stand &amp; Deliver<\/h2>\n<p>The NXT North American Championship match saw Ricky Saints make his first defense of the title, and he did so against Ethan Page. Being a former NXT Champion, Page knows exactly how to get to the gold, and he proved it with this match. For a majority of the match, Page brutalized Saints.<\/p>\n<p>There were several spots that could have ended the match, with Saints favoring his lower back and left knee. Despite Page&#8217;s efforts, Saints managed to best his adversary and pick up the win. Bloodied and bruised, but his reign continues.<\/p>\n<h2>#ANDSTILL: Ricky Saints Stuns To Retain North American Title<\/h2>\n<p>At Stand &amp; Deliver, Ricky Saints&#8217; reign as NXT North American Champion was at 18 days. It continues on, but there will certainly be no shortage of new challengers in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh no, Ricky! \ud83d\ude33 <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StandAndDeliver?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#StandAndDeliver<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z34zNc6Lre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/z34zNc6Lre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1913642328490656083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><em>Full WWE NXT Stand &amp; Deliver results can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/04\/19\/wwe-nxt-stand-deliver-2025-results-4-19-25\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013 Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><i>Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/i><\/a><i> for more on WWE NXT Stand &amp; Deliver, Ricky Saints, Ethan Page, and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>You can check out WWE programming on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81788927\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Netflix<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0(Raw),\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/wwe-friday-night-smackdown\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>USA Network<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0(SmackDown),\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwtv.com\/shows\/wwe-nxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The CW<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0(NXT),\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/tubitv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Tubi<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0(WWE Evolve),\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aetv.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>A&amp;E<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0(WWE Superstar Sunday \u2013 Rivals, WWE LFG, and Greatest Moments) and\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Peacock<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0(WWE Main Event as well as archives and premium live event streaming). Follow WWE on social media to relive top moments and matches on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>YouTube<\/i><\/a><i>, and catch fast-paced action on X (<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/events\/1773457579022155776?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>WWE Speed<\/i><\/a><i>).<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before WWE WrestleMania 41 Saturday, NXT put on their Stand &amp; Deliver event. This took place at the T-Mobile Arena, and the opening contest saw Ricky Saints defend his NXT North American Championship against Ethan Page. NXT North American Championship Match at NXT Stand &amp; Deliver The NXT North American Championship match saw Ricky Saints [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4545,"featured_media":134058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2192,4,5,3],"tags":[157,116,2537,9185,8907,47],"class_list":["post-134031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-ethan-page","tag-nxt","tag-nxt-north-american-championship","tag-ricky-saints","tag-wrestlemania-41","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Chinyere Okafor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134057,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134031\/revisions\/134057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}