Swerve wants to kill the Hangman
About a year ago he really hung the Hangman
Couple days ago Page turned the Page
Burned down Swerve’s place & took a cigar to the face
Now it’s lights out at All Out
To keep the law out - Tony got smart from Brawl Out
There will be blood that pours out
And there will still be beef after the fallout
2024 has been the year of hate. Katt Williams hates Cedric the Entertainer and everybody else in comedy for that matter. Kendrick Lamar hates Drake + the way that Drake walks, talks and dresses. And Hangman Page hates Swerve Strickland enough to huff & puff & burn his newly repurchased childhood home to the ground.
Wrestling fans, my name is AO Baker and this is The Signature Move Show.
Let’s be clear, I don’t feel sorry for Swerve. We all remember when he broke into Hangman’s house and filmed himself standing over Page’s baby crib. He even admitted to sitting outside of Hangman’s house as recently as around the time of his 2nd child’s birth. I wouldn’t trust either of these guys to share a round of beers.
But this feud is less about who I’m rooting for and more about the morbid curiosity of how violent this will eventually get. On Saturday, Swerve & Hangman will collide in an unsanctioned lights out steel cage match. That means AEW is holding zero responsibility. There will be blood. There will be weapons and ladders and chairs and tables and thumbtacks. Maybe a little bit of fire and barbed wire.
Undoubtedly AEW’s most personal feud and it reminded me of some other extremely personal wrestling beefs.
As a child, The Undertaker burned Kane’s face and killed their mother and his own father by setting the family funeral home on fire. At first he said it was an accident but eventually admitted to doing it on purpose because he thought Kane was weak.
But even that history couldn’t keep the two of them apart. They ended up a tag team…last match was in Saudi Arabia in 2018 against Shawn Michaels & Triple H. Sorry for bringing that one up.
Steve Austin and Brian Pillman were brothers in the Hollywood Blondes during their WCW days. By the time they made it to the WWF, they were both entirely different people. Steve used a steel chair to break Brian’s ankle and then he broke into his house only to find out that Pillman had one of those. Unfortunately, they never got to settle their differences 1-on-1 but would we have seen a Hollywood Blondes reunion in the WWF after the air was clear?
The point here is this: how bad will it get before Swerve & Hangman are able to let each other be? And is there a world where we see the 2 of them on the same side in a few years?
Before we get there though, we have to get through All Out. I highly doubt either one of them will tap out so that rules out any form of submission victory for either side. So this week’s signature move is the House Call.
But what if Hangman hits Swerve with the House Call? It’d be an ironic but appropriate ending to this chapter. And what happens next? If Hangman loses again, will he accept his L or come back? Will Swerve be in any condition to restart his world championship journey?
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