AEW’s Hangman Page clarifies comments on willingness to take advice
Hangman Page wants to clarify previous statements he made regarding his willingness to take advice from veterans.
The former AEW World Champion posted a message to Instagram stories on Tuesday. His statement reads:
the reports that i ‘don’t take advice’ have been greatly exaggerated, perhaps by no one more so than me. advice and feedback, particularly from those who have come before, have always been and always will be welcomed and appreciated. my self-deprecating and dry insistence otherwise just comes from a place of being more personally interested in wrestling as an art than a sport. it would’ve been hollow for Picasso to try to paint a mona lisa.
i kinda thought i’d have been asked about it by now and could’ve clarified. i just wouldn’t want any of the older generation, especially those whose work with us is vital and unknown to fans, to feel that their wisdom is dismissed.
i am also still in search of the cheese puffs. let me know if you find them. thank you.
Page’s statement is a likely follow-up to previous comments he made at Galaxycon last summer saying he doesn’t take advice. The comments were later referenced by CM Punk at the All Out 2022 post-event media scrum.
Page said in August 2022:
Oh boy, I don’t know, I’m stubborn, I don’t take advice. It’s a good question and that’s probably the honest answer. I listen to people say things, but very rarely do I listen hard. I was part of the movement that created the entire company and I’m a world champion. I don’t know that I need their advice. I’ll certainly listen, but there is something to be said about trial and error and doing it on our own. I take more pride in that. (transcriptions via Fightful).
CM Punk took aim at Hangman Page for several issues at the infamous All Out 2022 post-event media scrum, including his comments about taking advice.
Punk said:
Our locker room, for all the wisdom and brilliance it has, isn’t worth sh*t when you have an empty-headed idiot, who has never done anything in the business do public interviews and say, ‘I don’t really take advice.’ Who the f**k do you think you are? That’s stupid. I’m on a team with Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa, and I don’t need to work on my swing. I’m not gonna listen to these guys. F**king go f**k yourself. (transcriptions via Fightful)
Page’s line that he is “also still in search of the cheese puffs” is a reference to this week’s Being the Elite. During the episode, a screenshot of a text conversation between him and Evil Uno shows Page asking “Where are the cheesy puffs?” several times in a row.
Hangman Page is a four-time Wrestling Observer Newsletter award winner. The 31-year-old was voted Most Improved in 2018, won Match of the Year for his bout with Kenny Omega vs. The Young Bucks at Revolution 2020, Feud of the Year in 2021 against Omega, and his Buckshot Lariat won Maneuver of the Year in 2021.
