How long did Tony Schiavone know Hangman Page was going to dress up like him on AEW Dynamite?
Last week’s episode of AEW Dynamite closed with Hangman Page dressing up as Tony Schiavone to get the jump on Samoa Joe and The Opps. But how long did the AEW commentator know this was coming?
On the latest episode of What Happened When, the AEW commentator revealed that Hangman pitched the idea to him about this a couple of weeks ago.
“It was a very good angle. I didn’t know what to expect, to be honest with you. Hangman had talked to me about this for a couple of weeks,” Tony Schiavone revealed. “I was like, ‘Sure, whatever you want to do. It’s fine.’ I wasn’t sure what day it was going to happen. He talked about it for a couple of weeks, and then it hit me, ‘Of course, Halloween edition.’
“We worked on the exchange of the tie, the glasses, and the jacket. We both had white shirts on. He had put a little padding on his midsection. I said, ‘Hang on just one second. I don’t think I’m that fat.’ He said, ‘I don’t think so either, but I’m going to put this padding on. It’s okay.’ Then he said, ‘I need to watch you walk to see how you walk.’
“I was walking backstage. And he would start walking. I said, ‘You walk like an old fucking man. I don’t walk like an old man.’ Then, I thought, ‘I am an old man.’ So, maybe I do. It happened. We had a lot of people help us out. To be honest, I was skeptical about it, as I am about many things that we do, but he pulled it off, he really did. The fans really popped and it ended up being really cool.” [H/T: Fightful]
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