Orange Cassidy has proved to be a cornerstone for AEW, and the International Champion takes pride in being an “AEW original.”
In a recent interview with Adrian Hernandez, Cassidy reflected on his success in AEW, the Stadium Stampede Match at AEW All In 2023, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On finding his success in AEW: “A lot of people [think I’m an] overnight success. You don’t need to know what I’ve done before this, I just want you to take me as I am now, which I think is very important because sometimes people get sympathy for the grind because we all can sympathize with something that’s taken a long time to get to. But I want you to take me for who I am, as I am, right now.”
On why he’s best suited to AEW: “Eddie Kingston’s a different story than me, but I know I could speak for myself when I say that I would not be able to have thrived the way I am in AEW if it was another place. AEW let me be me. They let me do what I want to do and I believed in it. My style is my style. I take a lot of pride in it that no one can say ‘Oh, Orange Cassidy wrestles like this,’ or ‘Orange Cassidy is a guy like this who came before me.’ I take a lot of pride in being an original.”
On being stabbed with the fork: “It happened very fast. When I have my hands in my pockets in front of over 75,000 people and then I turn around and a monster of a man is running at me with a fork and stabs me in the head. I just went down and then I don’t really remember anything after that because I kind of like … went to the other weird realm I go to when I get angry.”
On having a scar from the fork: “And I remember after the fact that I had a huge fork gash in my head that took at least — he scarred me forever and I’ll have it forever because of Jon Moxley and a fork.”
