11 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Dynamite (Sep 9)

4. The Dream Is Dead

Hangman Page
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Holding back on a full Hangman Page/Kenny Omega explosion will yield greater rewards for AEW down the road. Make no mistake, though: it's coming.

Page's sitdown interview with Tony Schiavone saw him in a reflective mood. He took ownership of his recent actions, admitting The Young Bucks should have won the gauntlet, copping to screwing up his friendship with Omega and the Jacksons. He put his hands up. Everything was his fault, and though he and Kenny had had their problems, he was up to the task of climbing back to number one and reclaiming the gold.

Omega didn't share this sentiment, announcing, definitively, that he is done with tag team wrestling. 'The Best Bout Machine' wasn't crying about the loss as he accepts such things happen in wrestling. Still, he didn't like what he'd learned about Page during their time together, so he was leaving the deep division after giving a year of his life to the team. In his words, it's time to give people a taste of what they were hoping to see from him at launch.

This one hurts - Page and Omega were the best tag team in the world for much of 2020 - but such is the quality of storytelling on offer here. After failing to catch his falling partner at All Out, Omega severed all ties on Dynamite. Hangman's hopes for reconciliation were crushed like his dreams.

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