WWE legend compares AEW star's first title challenge to his match against Bret Hart
Kevin Nash recently compared the Hangman Page-Bryan Danielson AEW World Heavyweight Championship bout to his match against Bret Hart for the WWE Championship.
At the 1995 Royal Rumble, Nash defended his WWE Championship against Hart in a 28-minute match. Shawn Michaels, Jeff Jarrett, Owen Hart, Bob Backlund, and The Roadie interfered in the bout. When the referee regained consciousness, he couldn't control the chaos that ensued, thus declaring a draw.
In his Kliq This podcast, Nash brought up the Page-Danielson AEW World Championship match and remembered his 1995 match with The Hitman. For those unaware, The Anxious Millennial Cowboy had his first title defense against The American Dragon on December 15, 2021, in a 60-minute time limit draw.
"I always like to watch how people handle, when they make somebody champion for the first time and that Hangman [Adam Page] became a champion for AEW. I see where they’re going to have Bryan Danielson fight him. They went like f***ing a draw and I said, 'Ooh. Royal Rumble. That f***ing match I had with Bret 29 run-ins.' It’s like, my first f*cking title defense is a f***ing draw. Like, wow. Way to put the f***ing bank behind me." [H/T WrestlingInc]
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In the first Dynamite of 2022, Page finally defeated Danielson in a 29-minute slugfest at the Prudential Center in New Jersey.
What is Hangman Page currently up to in AEW?
Hangman Page lost his world title to CM Punk at Double or Nothing. From there, he was involved in a few singles matches against David Finlay and Silas Young in the build-up to Forbidden Door.
At the June 26 event, Page competed in a four-way match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. However, he was unsuccessful as Jay White retained his title.
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The Anxious Millennial Cowboy's latest match was at Royal Rampage on July 1 Rampage for the number one contendership of the Interim AEW World Championship. House of Black's Brody King won the battle royal.
Last week on Dynamite, Page was seen texting before his interview with Tony Schiavone. In a previous episode of Being the Elite, Matt Jackson drafted a message of reconciliation for Hangman but immediately deleted it.
It would be interesting to see if those sequences are intertwined and if a potential reunion of Page with The Elite would materialize in the future.
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