the same jacket he wore to the 2019 double or nothing press conference… lies down in the dirt.
unsure if anyone posted this here already, but a lot of folks have asked about the line, “after all these years i can hear his words coming back to me…i’m going to have to find something else to do.”
the line, “you’re going to have to find something else to do” is a callback to an interview Hangman did with Jim Ross in 2019, where, if you can see in the thumbnail, he is wearing the same black suit jacket and a white shirt.
the person who said these words to Hangman was his father, and it was during an anecdote about how his father told him he wasn’t going to stay in the tobacco business like the rest of his family. that he was going to have to find something else to do. it is another reference to Hangman’s new beginning.
a reminder that this was also right before his match against Chris Jericho at All Out to become the inaugural AEW men’s world champion. months after he made the promise at the press conference that he would become the first world champion. it is a promise that he ultimately did not keep.
