Hangman Page Comments On WWE Counter-Programming AEW Events

Hangman Page comments on WWE counter-programming AEW events.

Recently, WWE PLEs have often taken place on the same days as major AEW shows. WWE NXT Great American Bash coincided with AEW All In, and WWE NXT Battleground happened at the same time as AEW Double or Nothing. WWE NXT Heatwave was scheduled against AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, and WWE Wrestlepalooza was on at the same time as AEW All Out.

At the media scrum following the event, John Pollock of POST Wrestling asked the current AEW World Champion for his thoughts on the competition, and he stated that those in All Elite Wrestling are more focused on putting on the best show possible.

“It’s been a very up-and-down journey for me. I feel like there were so many opportunities where maybe I had the chance to be the first early on, but I was derailed by my knee injury. I thought, ‘Oh, maybe I’ll come back and be the first person to do this.’ Then, I get injured and time passes by, and other people step up and take that position. It’s very much been, not hurtful, but disheartening, having to be like, ‘Something out of my control stopped me from having that historic moment.’ To now finally have something to my name, ‘I’m the first ever to do this’ it makes all those injuries, all those hard times, all the ups and downs so worth it. I worked unbelievably hard to be in this position that I’m in today. To have that title means more than I could imagine. Wrestling is insane.”

Fans can read Bryan Danielson’s comments on WWE counter-programming against AEW here.

Read ESPN executives’ thoughts on the counter-programming here.

Fans can find Fightful’s coverage of AEW All Out here. Check out the post-show podcast for a full review here. 

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