Hangman Page update following worked injury on AEW Dynamite

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Update:

On Wrestling Observer Live, Bryan Alvarez noted that Page’s injury is an angle. 

Alvarez said: 

Hangman is not hurt. 

He worked an ankle injury. And the reason that he worked the ankle injury is because he has something going on in his personal life and he may not be able to work the pay-per-view.

If he can’t work the pay-per-view then this is the cover story as to why he can’t work the pay-per-view, he injured his ankle.

Virtually nobody knew about it and I don’t know if even the people in the match knew that he was going to do this. 

Alvarez continued to say:

There were people very close to Hangman who even this morning didn’t know what was going on. 

I presume that him and Tony talked about it but I can’t tell you that for sure. 

The point of the story is, he is okay. He may work the pay-per-view, he may not work the pay-per-view and I don’t know if we’re going to know whether he’s going to work the pay-per-view or not until maybe the last minute. 

I don’t know what the personal issues are but they are there and that’s what’s going on. 

Original:

Hangman Page may have suffered an ankle injury. 

Page appeared to be hurt after flipping out of a muscle-buster attempt during the main event of AEW Dynamite. He tagged out and never returned to the match. As the show was coming to a close, Page could be seen holding his ankle on the outside and telling a camera operator to stop shooting him.  

Our own Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer addressed Page’s injury on today’s edition of Wrestling Observer Radio. 

Alvarez said on today’s show:

He has to have it looked at and (it) could be a broken ankle. But it does appear to be a serious ankle injury. 

Sometimes we have people getting injured and we don’t know anything about it, they don’t say anything, but this guy is fighting for the world title in a little over a week so if he’s got a broken ankle, I think we’re going to hear about it real quick because they’re going to have to come up with something. 

However, Fightful Select is reporting that the injury was all an angle and Page was fine backstage. 

Subscribers can click here to listen to the entire Wrestling Observer Radio episode. 

Page is scheduled to challenge Samoa Joe for the AEW World Championship on March 3 at AEW Revolution in a three-way match along with Swerve Strickland.