Orange Cassidy speaks on his growth and his relationship with the AEW fan base.
Orange Cassidy is one of the major homegrown stars in AEW. Now, as he stands on the precipice of becoming AEW World Champion if he can defeat Jon Moxley at AEW Full Gear, he's opening up about his relationship with the fans who helped him grow and made him a star.
In an interview with Buster on the iHeartRadio Philadelphia station, Cassidy spoke about how he views wrestling and connects with the atypical wrestling fan.
"I like to look at professional wrestling sometimes through the lens of somebody who's not a professional wrestler," he said. "I feel that usually, hardcore wrestling fans don't really like what I'm doing, but it's all the people that don't really know what professional wrestling is, and they look at me, they're like, 'Oh, I get that, yeah.' Because that's always like, if you're not a wrestling fan, you come to a show and you see two guys basically in underwear, slapping each other in the chest, right? Like, what do you do? From that context, that's why I think a lot of kids will look at me, 'Okay, I get this.'"
Cassidy then spoke about the relationship he has with more traditional fans that's developed as he has grown alongside the long-time diehard AEW audience.
"AEW allowed me to get to this evolution, right? I was able to grow. iI you were a wrestling fan, if you were an AEW fan, from the very beginning, you literally saw me change and grow with you. I feel that the AEW fans, take a lot of pride and responsibility for me and my success, and I think they deserve to be brought on a ride that is satisfying and also maybe heartbreaking. They deserve it because they're basically with me."
Orange Cassidy has promised to win the AEW World Title and "bring back AEW." Learn more about his comments here.
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