Hangman Page advances to Owen Hart Foundation tournament final on AEW Dynamite
The finals of the men’s Owen Hart Foundation tournament are now set after Hangman Page defeated Jay White in their semifinal match on Saturday’s AEW Collision.
Page now moves on to face Bryan Danielson on this Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with the winner moving onto to challenge AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland at August’s All In.
A twist that occurred after the show is that Jeff Jarrett will now be special enforcer after he got involved during Saturday’s match.
Danielson and Page have squared off three times in AEW with the two going to a one-hour time limit draw in December 2021. The two then rematched a few weeks later for Page’s then-World title. After going 0-1-1, Danielson finally got a win in the first round of the 2022 Grand Slam Tournament of Champions.
The end of Saturday’s match came when White and Page exchanged counters and White got tossed into the referee, knocking him down. Page got a visual pin and then decided to remove his belt to order to choke and whip White with it.
Jarrett then came out to grab the belt but got tossed by another referee. In the chaos, Christian Cage entered the ring and speared White, leading to Page recovering and hitting a Buckshot clothesline to get the pin and win with the original referee counting.
The reason for Cage’s interference is that he and The Patriarchy are in hot pursuit of White and the Gunns’ AEW Trios titles. White had previously made some disparaging comments about the group which Cage retorted earlier on the Collision episode.
Page was bloodied during the match and continued the new-look aggressive style he displayed against Jarrett in the semifinals, his first match since March’s AEW Revolution.
Page, a former AEW World Champion, has feuded with Strickland since last October’s WrestleDream while Danielson has squared off with Strickland once, defeating him on an October 2023 edition of Dynamite.
