25 Best Wrestling Moments Of 2025
7. Hangman Page’s Spanish Promo
This world we’ve endured over the last however many years is a sewer.
Hateful, corrupt, unjust: the dystopia hardcore punk bands scream about is happening right outside of your window. We are divided by lies peddled by grotesque, overpowered forces that want to pit us against one another to deflect from the fact that they are the baddies. It’s harrowing. In this age of disinformation, expressing a fact to appeal to people is pointless. Protest feels pointless. By extension, it can all feel pointless. The best you can do is raise your children with good values and hope they aren’t outnumbered when they’re old enough to comprehend it all.
On one night in Mexico, daft as it may seem, Hangman Page made it feel less irreparably broken. He opened Grand Slam Mexico by revealing - in Spanish - that he was the son of a tobacco farmer who employed Mexican workers, from whom Hangman learned about the culture. Page said they taught him that we’re better off working together, and thanked the fans of Arena Mexico for welcoming him, and All Elite Wrestling, into their home. This was genuinely touching, and even in Spanish, Page cut through the schmaltz that will always threaten to weigh down his character. It never does; he’s too funny. Page said “I wanna apologise for my Spanish because it’s not the best - but it’s better than most gringos, so I will try.”
In our dumb, tiny escapist part of the world, the people came together for a few hours. Hopefully there are more of them.
Hopefully, they add up to something.