Tony Khan Says He Knew Hangman Page Would Dethrone Jon Moxley ‘A Long Time Ago’

Tony Khan talks about Hangman Page’s AEW World Title win.

At AEW All In 2025, Hangman Page would finally reclaim the AEW World Championship, forcing Jon Moxley to submit. Many fans debated in the runup to All In whether the story was Hangman’s to finish or Darby Allin’s, but for Tony Khan, it was always Hangman Page’s story.

While speaking to Q101 in a new interview, Tony Khan was asked how long ago he knew that Hangman Page would eventually dethrone Jon Moxley.

“A long time ago. A long time ago. Certainly for a long time, All In has been building to be the culmination of everything that’s happened in the past year since All In technically was 11 months, when we saw Bryan Danielson win the AEW World Championship and then surprisingly here in Chicago, Jon Moxley betrayed him setting up their match and Jon Moxley taking out Bryan Danielson, putting him out of the sport for the past almost a full year, and Jon Moxley reigned with the championship for about nine months. Across pro wrestling, Jon Moxley was absolutely a dominant world champion. Beat down every challenger he faced, and along the way, certainly… Hangman Page had stood very tall against him. Hangman Page had been involved in a rivalry with Jay White, who’s been out injured. Jay White’s somebody who’s really important to AEW, who we hope gets well soon, who certainly is a big part of our plans also, and that certainly did change things in AEW in a major way when Jay White gets injured. So things happened along the way that changed the flow.”

Asked if Hangman was always the guy, Tony paused and said, “I…..don’t have to answer that, but I do think Hangman Page has stepped up in the past year and clearly was the right choice.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Tony noted that Hangman Page’s Grand Slam Mexico promo in Spanish was Page’s idea. You can read more about that here.

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