Hangman Page will be at AEW All In: ‘I have my ideas on what I want to do’
Hangman Page will be in London for AEW All In despite not having a match scheduled for the show.
The former AEW World Champion told Paste Magazine that while he won’t give anything away regarding his plans for Sunday’s pay-per-view, he has some idea of what he wants to do.
“Well, I’ve bought a ticket. I booked a hotel. I will physically be at All In,” Page said. “I’m not going to tell you my intentions, not going to tell you my thoughts, but I will be there because they want to book me in a match. If I can get my way into a match, I certainly have my opinions on which it would be. I have my ideas on what I want to do at Wembley and I will be present.”
“Like I said, I’m not going to tell you my thoughts. I don’t want to make that clear to you or anyone else. I don’t see how that benefits me in any way whatsoever. And actually, I did want to ask you how the hell you got my phone number, because I had to change it. Did Jeff give you this number?”
Page was one win away from winning the Owen Hart Cup and qualifying for an AEW World Championship match against his longtime rival, Swerve Strickland at All In. He told Paste that Strickland, who once committed a home invasion against Page during their feud, should have never won the AEW World Championship.
“Well, he has something that he should have never gotten in the first place (the AEW World Championship). I’ve made it my mission that after he did what he did, that he would never hold it, because I always felt that the AEW World Championship was something that was earned, not just through your hard work and winning your matches, but it was something, I don’t know, cosmic about being right, doing the right thing.”
“I set out to make it my mission that he would never hold it, because someone who had done what he had done should never be allowed to hold that above their head to say that they are the best, because he’s not, he’s the worst of humanity. But I was suspended. I was gone for four months. I had to sit at home. I had to hear about it. I had to see it. I had to see him win it. I had to see him carry it around. I had to see the people cheer him when he came out with it. And it was, I don’t know, it was just impossible. It was impossible. Something that should have been impossible. He should never have won it. He shouldn’t have it today. He shouldn’t have it tomorrow. It should be mine.”
Page also addressed Strickland’s challenger at AEW All In, Bryan Danielson:
“I just want to draw a stark contrast to maybe how (Danielson) feels about that championship and how I feel about it. I’m not okay never holding it again. I’m not okay with it in the hands of the person that it’s in. I would not be okay walking away from this in the state that things are in right now. And if that’s how (Danielson) feels about it, about the championship, about the World champion, I can’t say that I have any respect at all for that.”
Before Page wrestled Danielson in the finals of the Owen Hart Cup, he cut a passionate promo about what facing Strickland means to him. The full promo is available below:
The full interview with Paste is available here.