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Hangman Page AEW: Champion reveals how bad his anxiety once was

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AEW Champion Hangman Page recently discussed his anxiety and how pro wrestling has actually helped him with his mental health issues.

Speaking on Oral Sessions with Renee Paquette, the All Elite Wrestling Champion revealed how bad his anxiety could get and how pro wrestling has helped him massively.

“This is a story I’ve never told. In ’” I don’t even know if middle school, maybe high school age ’” I had super, super bad social anxiety, like diagnosed, medication social anxiety,’ Page began.

‘But like, I can remember one time sitting at my desk, right, this was like, in the middle of taking a test or something and I could remember my whole body would like, turn flush red” Page continued.

“I would start sweating, then I would become aware for, God knows what reason, like no one’s looking at me, this is happening to my body.

“So then, you know it gets like ten times worse, what’s going on? Like, my eyes start watering, like I’m just sitting at my desk” Page revealed.

‘I think wrestling helped me get out of that to an extent because, not that like, not that I had like low self-worth or anything like that. But, like, wrestling was always my passion and where I felt comfortable, and what I like doing” Page noted.

“Once I was able to do that and see some success in it, being surrounded by like twenty people to two hundred people to two thousand people, twenty thousand, like, as that grew, I think you get more comfortable with that and yourself” the AEW Champion concluded.

Hangman Page reveals anxiety

AEW Dynamite is on every Wednesday night on TNT and FITE; fans in the UK can sign up to watch the show via AEW+ on FITE.

AEW Rampage is on every Friday night on TNT and FITE, fans in the UK can sign up to watch the show via AEW+ on FITE.

All Elite Wrestling also hosts four PPV events per year, available via traditional PPV routes in the United States and again on FITE TV elsewhere. The PPVs are named Double or NothingFull GearAll Out and Revolution.

AEW Dark and AEW Dark: Elevation are available to watch every Monday and Tuesday night on AEW’s official YouTube channel.

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