Orange Cassidy explains how everyone can identify with his character.
Orange Cassidy's gimmick is one that is truly one of a kind in the modern day of professional wrestling. A man who has become the innovator of 'Sloth Style', Cassidy has made a name for himself as both a comedy wrestler and as a bell to bell talent who can hang with some of the top talent in AEW and the world at large. In recent years, he has shown the latter on several occasions, holding the AEW International Championship across two reigns since October of 2022.
While speaking to The Mark Hoke Show, Cassidy was asked about the development of his gimmick, noting that everyone can relate to not wanting to go to work, but doing a great job anyway.
"So I could consider myself lucky or I could consider myself desperate. I have been wrestling for quite a long time and I have lots of friends in professional wrestling and at a certain point, when you wrestle as long as I have been and you see all the people that you came up with and all the people that are your friends get signed to different places, go do great things, travel around the world, and you're still doing the small town stuff, you kind of have nothing to lose, right? Clearly no one was interested in me. It wasn't anything I was doing that was working because I was listening to advice of people that worked for them. So I just decided to just do the opposite. Whatever I could do to stand out and be able to show everyone who Orange Cassidy is by being different is what I did and it started to work. I just started to be who I really am. I started just being lazy. I started doing what I want to do. I try to get in people's heads and I think it resonated with people because you can identify with everybody. Everybody can identify with having to get up and go to work and not really wanting to be there, but still doing a good job. I think that's what I try to embody."
Cassidy is currently scheduled to defend the AEW International Championship on the February 10th edition of AEW Collision, where he faces off with Tomohiro Ishii.
Cassidy will also compete on the February 9th edition of AEW Rampage. For spoilers from Wednesday's taping, you can find them here.
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