Hangman is looking to become a two-time AEW World Champion.
Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, will host AEW All In on July 12th. On the marquee for the show is a Texas Deathmatch for the AEW World Championship as Jon Moxley defends against Hangman Adam Page.
Page is making the media rounds ahead of the pay-per-view, and one of his stops was with SHAK Wrestling. As the conversation progressed, Page was asked what the most challenging aspect of his first AEW World Title reign was.
“You know, I felt that I had worked so hard for so long to win the World Championship, and that is where my vision was. That’s all I thought about. But, I guess I probably did not take a lot of time in thinking what would happen the morning after, the week after, the month after. That is a different challenge. There’s a different kind of drive that a person would have to win something as opposed to hold it and keep it. I think that’s maybe the main difference and I feel that this time around in challenging for the World Championship, I kind of understand that difference a bit more, having been there before. So should I win at All In, I’ve got maybe a different approach this time.”
Looking at where he is in the company present day, Page spoke about what it feels like to have AEW reidentify him as the main character. Hangman said he did not expect to be in this position again.
“Um, yeah, I did not expect to be in this position. As hard as I have tried for, I don’t know, it’s been three years, I guess, and I hadn’t gotten here. This is our biggest show in the U.S. ever, in North America ever and I’ll be headlining it and I intend to win the World Championship at it. So that’s the kind of thing I’ve tried to work towards for the past three years since I lost the championship, and to be honest, there’s a lot of times where I kind of thought that was it for me, you know, as far as these big opportunities, these big moments and you know a lot of that boils down to me, who I was, who I was deciding to be, and that kind of attitude that I had had did not lead me to these kind of opportunities unfortunately. Well, maybe, actually in this case, fortunately. Because now I do have the chance and you know, in some weird way, all of that will have been worth it, I assume.”
He then went on to speak about the current vibe in AEW. For Hangman, it feels like how it did during the first weeks and months of AEW TV.
“It very much does feel like, for me, personally, my experience week to week, a lot of the same kind of magic of those first few weeks and months of AEW TV… The sense of wanting to work together for a common goal. To make something good, exciting, new, fun, fresh. Yeah, the trajectory has felt upwards and I’m just gracious to still be here and still be a part of that.”
Page proposed the Texas Deathmatch stipulation at AEW Dynamite 300. To listen/watch Fightful's review of that show, head over to our YouTube channel.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit SHAK Wrestling with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.
