Why Adam Page Doesn’t Think Swerve Strickland Is His Wrestling Soulmate
“Hangman” Adam Page doesn’t think Swerve Strickland can be considered his wrestling soulmate.
At All In, Hangman” Adam Page is again standing on the edge of AEW’s promised land.
His match with Jon Moxley for the World Heavyweight Championship is not only a clash for the biggest prize in the company, but for Page, it represents the light at the end of a very dark tunnel. A tunnel that saw him forced to go to increasingly uncomfortable places during his years-long battle with Swerve Strickland.
“Hangman” Adam Page Couldn’t Accept Help From Swerve Strickland
During a new interview with Haley Miller for VICE, Page looked ahead to his match with Moxley, and how rivals Will Ospreay and Swerve Strickland have played a role in taking the fight to the Death Riders.
However, Page remains determined to claim the World Championship without any assistance from Strickland.
“I made a promise to win the World Championship, and I made a promise not to need or accept help from him [Swerve Strickland] because I can’t — I couldn’t do that.”
When it was put to the star that he and Strickland are “wrestling soulmates,” he quickly dismissed the idea. Page went on to describe how he’s had to change his mindset after feeling like he spent the last two years chasing the wrong prize.
”No, no, no. I don’t, I don’t believe in that [fans calling them wrestling soulmates]. I don’t. I mean, you said it. He is someone who, to prove a point, broke into my home. He’s someone who threatened my family’s safety, who had nothing to do with any of it. You’re right, I found his childhood home. I burned it to ash, and I nearly killed him.
I mean, I thought about him, I did. Once I had done that, I kind of realized that the catharsis that I thought it would give me didn’t come. And I thought it would hit instantly; I would feel relief. I’d feel like it was done, and it just didn’t come at all. I kind of realized that I had spent two years chasing the wrong thing, I guess.
He said quite a while ago that he had put it behind him, and I kind of had to make that decision as well to put it behind me to focus on something worthwhile, because the past two years had not been worthwhile.”
In a different interview, Adam Page talked up the atmosphere around AEW, commenting that he feels some of the company’s earlier magic has returned in recent months. He added that AEW is now on an upward trajectory, and that’s something he’s proud to be part of.
H/t to Fightful