It was also fitting because Page didn’t face PAC at Double or Nothing. Perhaps it was that groundswell of support, combined with Page’s own efforts, that led AEW to the name of their November PPV.
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Full gear had gone from a two-word phrase to a true community of fans, all working together to support each other and better themselves. They were encouraging other fans to do the same. Page inspired a movement and before long, wrestling fans were commenting and sharing updates from their own workouts. Share your progress with the hashtag #fullgearchallenge.” Whether your goal for DON is to lose some weight, add some mass, or to somehow do both at the same time, I hope you’ll join me. In February, again, still months before the PPV of the same name would be announced, Page invited fans to join him in a Full Gear Challenge, sharing on Instagram, “For the next 89 days I’ll be documenting my journey to get in shape here on my Instagram. Like so many popular AEW angles at the time, what had started as a BTE bit, took on a life of its own and became so much more.
And thus began Page’s own journey to get what he called ‘full gear ready’ in time for his May match against PAC. Cody noted that it was cool when PAC did it because of how shredded the man is. On an episode of Being the Elite, Page decided to be in full gear while the rest of the Elite were in street clothes, remarking how his friends thought it was cool when PAC did it.
Page was preparing for a Double or Nothing match against PAC, the man who had confronted and stared him down at AEW’s introductory rally in 2018. It all started in January, earlier that year. Well before AEW’s August 2019 announcement that their November PPV was going to be titled Full Gear, Page was involved in a bit on Being the Elite, focused around that very name.