10 Future AEW World Champions

1. Hangman Page

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They say there are no inevitabilities in the world of professional wrestling, but come on now, are you saying that Hangman Page isn't AEW's superstar champion-in-waiting? The current AEW Tag Team Champion has plenty more gold in his future. If you were going to put money on someone becoming AEW's flagship babyface, Adam Page is your guy.

Hangman came within a whisker of becoming the very first AEW World Champion way back at All Out in 2019, a match that feels like an actual lifetime ago. Many fans felt that Page had been thrust into a position that he wasn't exactly ready for, given the much-maligned (by the binary code world, at least) Roman Reigns treatment, pushed to the moon before his time as the fledgeling wrestling promotion tried to establish its own stars. Page came up short against Chris Jericho and spent the next couple of months spinning his wheels.

Before alcohol came to the rescue.

Who knew that 'drunken cowboy' would become the most popular gimmick of 2020? Hangman Page has been an absolute revelation since embracing the booze, winning gold alongside Kenny Omega and justifying every single bit of the early faith that was put in him. A future run as AEW World Champion is an absolute inevitability, a guarantee, a spoiler.

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