Orange Cassidy Says The International Championship Did Not Have An Identity Before He Won It

Orange Cassidy talks the International Championship.

Cassidy beat PAC to win the AEW All-Atlantic Championship on the October 12, 2022, episode of AEW Dynamite. Since then, Cassidy has been wrestling an insane scheduled as champion, defending the title on a consistent basis. He has defeated some big names with the title on the line, successfully retaining the championship in 27 matches as of this writing.

In an interview with Denise Salcedo, Cassidy was asked to share his thoughts on his title reign.

“When I won the All-Atlantic Championship, it was called that before the International Championship, I really think the goal was just to beat PAC and take that title from him. It didn’t have an identity. It was a new championship, and I didn’t know what to do with it. So I just did what I thought I needed to do, and that was defend it as much as possible. There are championships in this company that are able to be defended against a certain group of people, like let’s call them the top five of the roster, those upper echelon people. The idea of having a championship that I could fight against the people that aren’t on television all the time, to not have a spotlight on them all the time, and that they are able to show what they can do. Because as we all know, AEW’s roster is very large, and there are tons of people that are just waiting for that opportunity to show what they can do because they’re all very talented. I was able to do that with this championship. I feel that this should be that. I think it should be something that we can show, ‘Hey, we all can do it.’ That’s what I’m most happy, that I was able to make this championship identify as,” 

“I never like getting beat up, so I know none of them are my favorite. But it is interesting that the championship was, it started on Rampage. I defended it a lot on Rampage against a lot of those guys that we were just taking about. Everyone gave me a tough time, and then it slowly crept its way onto Dynamite. Then I started wrestling the Big Bills and the Jake Hagers, and then I started getting in more pain. I don’t remember the matches. I remember the pain that I felt through each one. So my back hurt tremendously because of Jake Hager, Big Bill, Danny Garcia. My hand is still throbbing because of Buddy Matthews. Zack Sabre Jr., he messed it up. I wrestled against Katsuyori Shibata. That’s crazy, right? I shouldn’t be doing that. But I am,” 

Orange Cassidy

Cassidy is currently scheduled to take part in the 5 on 5 Stadium Stampede match at All In this Sunday, but will compete in trios action on Saturday’s AEW Collision first.

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