Explain to me what is so great about Hangman Page

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I'm not making this thread on some WWE stooge stan war shyt either.

He's seems over with the fans and I know he's got some supporters on here but I legit don't get it with this guy.

What does he excel at? Because I don't see it in terms of mic skills, look, wrestling ability, charisma. And I'm not saying he's bad at these things, he's perfectly decent at all of them but the drunk cowboy persona doesn't really scream corner stone of the company which they've pretty much been building him as since day one.

What's your thoughts on Hangman?
 

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The whole thing with Page is a story in a sense that very little else is in wrestling these days, at least insofar as... Page doesn't work without the backstory yet. There aren't many characters in wrestling who have so much required reading around them.
What he does with the title could flesh him out some more, but it's like asking what's good about a show 3 seasons in.

That being said, he's an earnest, blond-haired 'cowboy' babyface. Wrestling's always had one - basic character template. Without the story, he's pretty much just that and some light flipping. With it, he's at least a person the audience feels they can relate to and connect with because they feel like they watched their come-up.

He gotta figure something out soon, tho. The instant Darby/MJF/Sammy/Jack get to the main event tier, that shine is gone. He better have some personality by then :unimpressed:
 

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Everyman character with well-executed nuance/layers and a homegrown cult following that was drawn out. Relatable (work hard, do your job, go home and perhaps toast to another day well done).

AEW fans root for whatever AEW has going, but I doubt they are as wholly invested in the success of ANYBODY more than they are for Hangman Page because of how long it took to get there, etc.

He is a perfect example of one thing WWE rarely gets right: Executing a SATISFYING payoff with someone the crowd ORGANICALLY got behind without having to force the issue or renege on their initial plans.
 

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I'm too new to AEW to have an opinion. But all I know is that from day 1 this company wanted him in the top spot and they realized very quickly he wasn't ready AND their fans weren't ready to see him get the belt at that point.

So the fact that 2 years later he's this over and the fanbase treats him like "their guy", shows you that there was certainly a character arc that resonated with them.
 
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He's a great wrestler... u haven't seen much of him if u don't see that..
Well... no.
Objectively he isn't a top-5 wrestler in the company in work-rate, nor is he top-5 in character work - in a vacuum. It's just... wrestling doesn't exist in one of those, and it's all of the ambient stuff around Page that has made him work. In terms of a straight-up bell-to-bell match? They have better grapplers, they have better fliers, they have better brawlers. PAC does literally all 3 better than Hangman. Objectively.

But, thankfully, wrestling isn't about objectivity or things in vacuums. So, Page got to work. And for the sake of wrestling as a whole, I think it was a necessary thing. Him getting over will make it easier for the next batch in AEW to get over because the fans are now conditioned to believe that a new face can crack through the top where it's mainly been guys they knew as bigger from other places crowding the top.

In a sense... Page is AEW's AJ Styles. Like, Pre-BischoffTNA AJ.
He's the original that they got to feel like they were along for the ride of his rise.
Now the question is, will Hangman Page have half the career AJ ended up having, or become a quarter of the worker? If he can, I don't see why he isn't a mainstay in their main event scene for at least the gap years until all the next crop are ready. If he can't, he'll be AEW's Sheamus. There are worse things.

And if nothing else, he's a perfect sympathetic babyface to get folded by Miro in six months and put on the shelf to spend time with his new family, helping get over the murderer your new monster heel champion is :yeshrug:
 

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This video gets posted a lot, but this summarizes why Hangman got so over & why the audience loves him. Long story short, he's relatable. AEW built Hangman up from day 1 through storylines, which makes it funny when stans try to say AEW doesn't do storylines. There are multiple long-term storylines being told, not just for Hangman. Also funny enough, he got over with the same story outlined in the children's book that he wrote.

 

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These markS forget to leave out in aew “EVERYONE IS OVER” THE GUY CHANGING THE TURN BUCKLES IS OVER FOR fukkS SAKE…NO REAL HEAT…fukkn db p*ssy ass promo had these cacs fake upset

-Cant cut a good promo
-Dark order stink/scott hall drunk wcw/james storm with a push


Hes a midcard baby face with a push…he can wrestle but his promos stink…why not just make him more serious
 

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I don’t think he’s there yet. He isn’t talentless and has potential but I don’t think he’s the best they have at the moment or even top 3 so in that respect wouldn’t have the title on him. Maybe he can develop as he continues his run though and prove himself as champion.
 
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