25 Best Wrestling Moments Of 2024

25. Burning Down The House

Hangman Page was a revelation as a heel throughout 2023. 

His acting was a level above virtually everybody else. There is nothing more physically painful than watching a pro wrestler attempt to play unhinged - and yet, Hanger was totally believable as the wronged psycho who was driven to avenge what had been done to him. 

His facials, veering between wild-eyed fury and spiritually vacant, were incredible - so incredible that, within the heightened context of the programme, you could believe that he actually burned down Swerve Strickland’s childhood home. 

To be pedantic about the angle, Page’s long, expository monologue was a tad unnecessary. If he was so consumed by rage that he’d go to that extreme, he’d do so, surely, in a fit of blind rage. 

Still, it hardly mattered: this was a bold, creative move that played mischievously with Swerve’s catchphrase, and was deftly foreshadowed by Hangman’s vow to burn Swerve’s life to the ground. 

A bit much? 

Yes - but the characters made the plotting that bit more credible, and the shot of Page taking a satisfied drink in front of the wreckage was an instantly iconic photograph.