When AEW first started, Hangman Page was in the world title picture. He eventually won the title in the culmination of one of AEW’s better long-term stories. When he lost the title, he somehow never lost the spotlight. Blood feuds with the likes of Swerve Strickland kept Page a central figure of AEW programming, and now he’s won the world title in the main event of AEW’s biggest show of the year.

Page’s win on Saturday is pretty much what professional wrestling is all about. It might’ve been more violent than purists would like, and it was an overstuffed match that made “Avengers: Endgame” look restrained, but wrestling has never been a place for subtlety anyway.

Swerve Strickland put his animosity with Page behind him to help him win the title. Darby Allin descended from the rafters of a baseball stadium, officially taking over the vigilante role of his mentor Sting, Will Ospreay got murdered by Claudio Castagnoli, the marathon of violence and easter eggs truly felt like a war for AEW’s soul, and having Hangman Page stand victorious at the end cements his status as the company’s main character, if that was ever in doubt in the first place.