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AEW Men’s World Championship
Steel Cage Match
Samoa Joe versus Hangman Adam Page (c)
At some point people realized that Hangman Adam Page really loves rematches at Full Gear.
At first it was Full Gear rematches. Page fought Kenny Omega at Full Gear 2020 and lost and then beat Kenny Omega for the AEW Men’s World Championship at Full Gear 2021. In 2023 he started a new tradition. At WrestleDream he faced Swerve Strickland and then faced him again at Full Gear 2023. In 2024 he would do it again with WrestleDream and Full Gear, this time with Jay White. All of those matches? Page lost. In 2025 he faced Samoa Joe at WrestleDream and defended the World Championship against him. He faces him in a rematch, and this time? It’s in a steel cage.
The last time Hangman worked in a steel cage match it was the famous lights out steel cage match at All Out 2024 against Swerve Strickland. Samoa Joe has had one steel cage match in AEW, the match against Jon Moxley at Beach Break earlier in the year. Page has at least a victory in his.
Page had to defeat both members of The Opps in singles matches on his way to this, and has all the confidence in the world in taking on Samoa Joe. It’s interesting, because that confidence can often be the downfall of a babyface. He’s facing a man with a lot of experience in Samoa Joe, and a man who rarely loses twice.
I’ve honestly enjoyed this feud a lot more than others it seems. I’ve heard people call it boring or mundane. I think it’s been a perfectly good story. Samoa Joe is a snake, and he was looking for his moment to strike. Page has taken it personal, because he feels he has a debt to The Opps for everything they did for him to make him AEW Men’s World Champion. He wanted to repay them, not destroy them. Yet what choice does he now have?
Hangman dressing like Tony Schiavone to sneak attack Samoa Joe was a really great moment and something people will remember for 2025. I also thought the match he had with Powerhouse Hobbs, the falls count anywhere match at Blood and Guts, was absolutely fantastic. It was honestly better than Joe versus Page at WrestleDream, so Samoa Joe has his own teammate to look at when wondering why he has to raise the stakes of this match so high. He doesn’t just have to have a great match with The Hangman. He has to have one better than Powerhouse Hobbs.
AEW hasn’t done the best job in finding contenders for Page, and I have said in the past that they really should have put the Jon Moxley rematch on pay per view. That would have pushed MJF’s match a bit forward to All Out, and would have allowed Page to face Fletcher at WrestleDream instead. That might have strengthened the defences, but without top heels after Moxley became involved with Darby and KOR, and MJF disappearing after his loss to Mark Briscoe? It left a hole that Samoa Joe had to fill. That’s why we got this rematch.
Both men know this, and I think they will make sure this steel cage match is one to remember.
