'Hangman' Adam Page Says AEW Has Restored The Feeling (AEW News)

Ahead of AEW All In next weekend, Adam Page believes that the oft-discussed "feeling" is back in the promotion, comparing the current vibe to that of the early days of AEW.

Speaking to SHAK Wrestling (via Fightful) about that particular topic, Hangman said:

"It very much does feel like, for me, personally, my experience week to week, a lot of the same kind of magic of those first few weeks and months of AEW TV. The sense of wanting to work together for a common goal. To make something good, exciting, new, fun, fresh. Yeah, the trajectory has felt upwards, and I'm just gracious to still be here and still be a part of that."

With Page bidding to become a two-time AEW World Champion when he faces Jon Moxley at All In on Sunday, elsewhere in this interview, he also talked about the most challenging element of his initial run with the AEW World Title:

"You know, I felt that I had worked so hard for so long to win the World Championship, and that is where my vision was. That’s all I thought about. But, I guess I probably did not take a lot of time in thinking what would happen the morning after, the week after, the month after. That is a different challenge. There’s a different kind of drive that a person would have to win something as opposed to hold it and keep it. I think that’s maybe the main difference, and I feel that this time around in challenging for the World Championship, I kind of understand that difference a bit more, having been there before. So, should I win at All In, I’ve got maybe a different approach this time.”

On his current role at the top of the card and arguably the promotion's top babyface, Adam Page seemed to be somewhat surprised to see himself back in such a position:

"Yeah, I did not expect to be in this position. As hard as I have tried for, I don’t know, it’s been three years, I guess, and I hadn’t gotten here. This is our biggest show in the US ever, in North America ever, and I’ll be headlining it and I intend to win the World Championship at it. So, that’s the kind of thing I’ve tried to work towards for the past three years since I lost the championship, and to be honest, there’s a lot of times where I kind of thought that was it for me, you know, as far as these big opportunities, these big moments. And you know, a lot of that boils down to me, who I was, who I was deciding to be. And that kind of attitude that I had had did not lead me to these kind of opportunities, unfortunately. Well, maybe, actually in this case, fortunately, because now I do have the chance and, you know, in some weird way, all of that will have been worth it, I assume.”

As alluded to by Hangman there, it's now over three years since he lost the AEW World Championship to CM Punk at Double or Nothing 2022. Since then, there have been notable rivalries with the likes of Jon Moxley, Swerve Strickland, and MJF, there have been Elite shenanigans, and there has been a vicious heel turn and subsequent slow babyface turn, before Page now finds himself once again having circled back to Moxley and the AEW World Title.

To get to All In, Hanger won this year's men's Owen Hart Tournament, defeating Josh Alexander, Kyle Fletcher, and Will Ospreay to earn himself a shot at Mox at Arlington, Texas' Globe Life Field.

With Jon Moxley and his Death Riders having held the AEW World Championship hostage for the past nine months - to be precise, 268 days as of this writing - will Adam Page be the one to finally bring Mox's reign of terror to a close? Many fans are predicting Page to emerge victorious at All In... but then again, so many of those same fans thought Swerve Strickland would take that AEW World Title from Moxley at Dynasty earlier this year, so we'll have towait and see how things play out on Sunday.