8 Unbelievable Wrestling BLUNDERS You Totally Missed
1. Hangman Page Pokes The Bear
Realistically, nobody knew what Hangman Page was saying, exactly, when he and CM Punk did their big promo duel ahead of AEW Double Or Nothing.
So muddled and confusing that it all acted as a robust defence of Brian Gewirtz, eurgh, the storyline was difficult to parse. The idea - maybe? - was Punk and Hangman attempting to get inside one another's heads by stealing one another's finishes. Punk doing a Buckshot lariat with all of the athletic grace of Michael Cole was hardly going to have the Hangman character sweating, but it wasn't meant to look awful, in fairness.
Somebody did get inside of someone's head, but it had little to do with finisher theft.
When Page said that Punk "talked a big game about worker's rights", he was trying to employ subtext, but since wrestling is still decades away from that level of sophisticated dialogue, nobody got it - even if some sort of guessed what he was driving at. Put it this way: when Punk returned from the foot injury suffered days after dethroning him, and called out Page on Dynamite, until the reports filtered through, the expectation was of a three-way match at All Out between Page, Punk and Jon Moxley.
How naive: Page had made a bit of an etiquette blunder, one that gnawed at Punk when he was on the shelf, and the rest is constantly regurgitated and exhausting history.