Kyle Fletcher: As a character and wrestler, they ‘don’t get much better than Hangman’

After starting out as a fan of AEW, Kyle Fletcher now has the opportunity to contribute to one of the promotion’s greatest-ever story arcs.

The 26-year-old Fletcher is challenging Hangman Page for the AEW World Championship at All Out this weekend. In advance of the pay-per-view, he spoke with Bleacher Report and discussed the unique perspective he has on Page as someone who started out as an AEW fan and is now one of the company’s top rising stars.

“I think I have a pretty unique perspective on AEW in general because I’ve watched as a fan ever since its inception in 2019. I was living in Australia. I was watching everything, watching all the pay-per-views,” Fletcher said.

“So I have a bit of a different perspective, and I’ve gotten to see that character arc that Hangman has been on. I really believe that he has one of the greatest characters in professional wrestling.”

Fletcher believes that the continuity of Page’s story is what makes it so special. It has never been stop-start, and all of Page’s failures and successes have contributed to the persona he has today.

“He’s had such an awesome story,” Fletcher said. “A lot of stories feel very stop-start. I feel like everything Hangman has done has threaded so beautifully into one another. The man that we see today, the wrestler that we see today, is the culmination of everything that he’s been through.

“And I think there’s so much depth behind it all because of that. So yeah, I think as a character and a wrestler, you don’t get much better than Hangman.”

Page is now a two-time AEW World Champion, with his most recent reign having begun when he dethroned Jon Moxley this July.

Fletcher is AEW’s current TNT Champion but has never held a World title before.

Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada will be the venue for All Out on Saturday. The main card has a start time of 3 p.m. Eastern.