Hangman Page on How He’s Viewed by the Fans, His Hatred for Swerve Strickland

– During a recent interview with Paste Magazine, AEW star and former world champion Adam Hangman Page discussed how he’s viewed by the fans and his hatred for AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland. Below are some highlights:

Hangman Page on how he’s viewed by the fans: “I feel that, in my career, I have very much tried to put myself out there. And as much as I could feel that I could afford to, maybe I created some kind of a connection, especially in the beginning of AEW, with certain fans, and if they are with me on this ride that I am on now, then I do appreciate it.”

Page on not wanting fan support unless they feel the same level of hatred for Swerve Strickland: “Unless they’re willing to attack [Swerve] in the parking lot, unless they’re willing to call out what he did for what it is, and not acknowledge him at all as a champion, then I don’t want their support.”

On his hatred for Swerve Strickland: Well, he has something that he should have never gotten in the first place [the AEW World Championship]. I’ve made it my mission that after he did what he did, that he would never hold it, because I always felt that the AEW World Championship was something that was earned, not just through your hard work and winning your matches, but it was something, I don’t know, cosmic about being right, doing the right thing. I thought, I thought there was some kind of inherent… I can’t even phrase it. I just never thought that the most important thing in my career to me, one of the most important things in my life, I never thought that it in itself could betray me like this, and I set out to make it my mission that he would never hold it because someone who had done what he had done should never be allowed to hold that above their head to say that they are the best, because he’s not, he’s the worst of humanity.”

On his suspension: “But I was suspended. I was gone for four months. I had to sit at home. I had to hear about it. I had to see it. I had to see him win it. I had to see him carry it around. I had to see the people cheer him when he came out with it. And it was, I don’t know, it was just impossible. It was impossible. Something that should have been impossible. He should never have won it. He shouldn’t have it today. He shouldn’t have it tomorrow. It should be mine. If it were mine, I would do everything that I could to erase his name from history of all wrestling from this planet. What would ‘settle it’ would be that, for me to erase him from history altogether, to let his name disappear into the wind and let him be nothing, nothing to anyone else. To solve it would be for him to drop to his knees in front of me and beg for my mercy. On his knees, begging for my mercy. I would never give it, but he should beg for it.”

Hangman Page is not currently scheduled for a matchup for this weekend’s AEW All In: London 2024 event. However, he might be one of the competitors in the Casino Gauntlet Match scheduled for this weekend’s pay-per-view event. AEW All In: London 2024 will be held at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, August 25. It will be broadcast live on pay-per-view.