Orange Cassidy Didn’t Set Out To Defend The AEW International Title Every Week, Notes Its Just What Happened

Since becoming AEW International Champion, Orange Cassidy has been operating at a breakneck pace, defeating some of the top names in AEW. He has also found himself facing off with some stars who do not have a permanent place on AEW television.

Speaking with Jack Farmer of Wrestling Inc. ahead of AEW Double or Nothing, Cassidy was asked about his reign as a fighting champion, noting that he didn’t set out to be one and it just kind of happened.

“I’ll tell you what wasn’t my idea to get beat up every single week and defend this thing. When I got the All-Atlantic Championship in October, the idea was just really to beat Pac, and just finally get that win over him. And along with it came the All-Atlantic Championship and I didn’t really know what this title meant. I didn’t know what it was for. I didn’t really understand… It didn’t have an identity really, but it did have a lineage already of Pac who is obviously one of the best wrestlers in the world,”

“To live up to that, I ain’t got nothing to prove to anybody. I’m going to do what I’m going to do. It’s going to be what I want to do. But when I had the Independent Wrestling Championship early in my career on the Indies, I had this philosophy of, if you want a shot, I’ll give it to you. And I think I wanted to use this as a tool to get people on television that you normally wouldn’t see on television. Maybe somebody that works really, really hard that deserves a title shot. And I decided to make this title the belt that everybody else who wasn’t ranked number one could go after and show different styles, show different wrestling, show the wide variety of fantastic talent that AEW has. It’s just unfortunate that I’ll have to punch them all in the face to win this back. It was something I stumbled upon. I didn’t really set out to do that, it’s just what happened,” 

Orange Cassidy

Cassidy would go on to retain the championship last night on AEW Dynamite when he defeated Swerve Strickland.

We will have to wait and see how much longer Orange can keep up his hectic schedule in the future.

H/T to Fightful

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