Tony Schiavone addresses Adam Page dressing up as him for Halloween segment on AEW Dynamite
As seen during the October 29th 2025 edition of AEW Dynamite, AEW world champion “Hangman” Adam Page dressed up as announcer Tony Schiavone for a Halloween segment with Samoa Joe. While speaking on his podcast, Schiavone commented on what happened…
“It was a very, very good angle. I didn’t know what to expect, to be honest with you. And Hangman had talked to me about this for a couple of weeks, and I was like, ‘Sure, whatever you want to do, it’s fine.’ To be honest with you, I wasn’t sure what day it was going to happen. He had talked about it for a couple of weeks, then all of a sudden it hit me—of course, the Halloween edition, right?
And we kind of worked on the exchange of the tie, the glasses, and the jacket. We both had white shirts on, and he had put a little padding on his midsection. I said, ‘Hang on just one second. I don’t think I’m that fat.’ And he said, ‘No, 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 was watching me. Then he started walking. I said, ‘You walk like an old f*cking man. I don’t walk like an old man.’ Then I thought, well, I am an old man, so maybe I do.
So, it happened. We had a lot of people help us out. To be very honest with you, I was kind of skeptical about it—as I am about many things that we do. But hey, he pulled it off, man. He really did. Congratulations for that. The fans really popped, and it ended up being pretty cool. Fans absolutely loved it. I loved it.”