{"id":28638,"date":"2020-07-16T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-orange-cassidy-turned-into-aews-new-breakout-star\/"},"modified":"2020-07-16T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T15:17:00","slug":"how-orange-cassidy-turned-into-aews-new-breakout-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-orange-cassidy-turned-into-aews-new-breakout-star\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Orange Cassidy turned into AEW\u2019s new breakout star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#How Orange Cassidy turned into AEW\u2019s new breakout star<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        All Elite Wrestling ensured Orange Cassidy was lightly squeezed leading up to his Fyter Fest match against Chris Jericho.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy was all part of the plan Tony Khan formulated that slowly turned the comedy wrestler into a viable \u201cmain event star\u201d once the AEW president realized what he had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018oh my God, like that\u2019s it,\u2019\u201d Khan told The Post in a phone interview. \u201cHe can do all these things and sometimes he doesn\u2019t bring them out until later in a match. What we need to do is hide those things as long as possible. People don\u2019t realize he can do those things and so the long-term idea was he would be like a manager, a character, a variety character on the show and then when the time was right, we\u2019d put him in a big program, a pay-per-view. He would have his first match as a singles star and that would be the beginning of the story and the breakout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Cassidy \u2014 currently billed as \u201cfreshly squeezed\u201d in AEW \u2014 debuted on the independent scene in 2004. He was the masked Fire Ant and also JC Ryder before switching to his current gimmick in 2009. The New Jersey native has worked in Chikara, Evolve, Beyond and numerous other small promotions.<\/p>\n<p>Khan admitted he wasn\u2019t familiar with him when he first came into AEW. He made sure to spend some time talking to Cassidy \u2013 who never speaks on camera \u2013 at \u201cAEW Dynamite\u201d tapings and came away impressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of book smarts and intelligence, he\u2019d be one of the top-five people in the company and his presentation is genius,\u201d Khan said. \u201cOnce I started to talk to him and get to know him, I didn\u2019t know that the person under that gimmick is actually incredibly intelligent, very knowledgeable, very capable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kEnUXgX2_wY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" title=\"Video\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It made Khan go back and watch some of his matches before he became Orange Cassidy, and he said he was \u201cshocked that they were the same two people.\u201d He also saw him at a Pro Wrestling Guerilla show in California after Cassidy had signed and Khan became a bigger believer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more I talked to him, the more I liked him and realized he does know what he\u2019s doing,\u201d Khan said. \u201cThere was a way he could be a very important person for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy in a short 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> documentary for \u201cComedy in Wrestling\u201d said he created the character to be \u201cdifferent\u201d than other wrestlers because \u201cthere are other people doing moonsaults better than me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to go and do what everybody else is doing on your show,\u201d Cassidy said in the video. \u201cI want to be that alternative.\u201d He described the slow-moving and aloof Cassidy \u2014 who is known as The King of Sloth Style \u2014 as \u201ca wrestler who doesn\u2019t want to wrestle, whatever he can do just to get by is what he\u2019s gonna do.\u201d Even Cassidy\u2019s signature thumbs up is lazy, lifting it only halfway.<\/p>\n<p>But hidden behind that reluctance is an arsenal of quick-hitting moves and perfectly timed counters \u2014 many with his hands in his pockets. Khan tried to hide all of that for as long as possible, mostly having Cassidy as the manager for Best Friends, Chucky Taylor and Trent Beretta.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t always go perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a six-man tag where he (Cassidy) did a couple of things and when he got through the curtain I was like, \u2018What are you doing?\u2019 \u201d Khan said. \u201cHe\u2019s like, \u2018I did a stunner.\u2019 You did the Stun Dog and I\u2019m like \u2018Save all that stuff man.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy, who debuted in AEW in August 2019, has only wrestled 11 traditional matches in the company. He was also in two battle royals and a ladder match. His first singles match was against PAC at the AEW Revolution pay-per-view in February. The idea to build to Orange Cassidy vs. PAC as his breakout match dates back to around the time of a six-man tag between PAC, Angelico and Jack Evans vs. Cassidy and Best Friends on \u201cAEW Dark\u201d in December of 2019, according to Khan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce I figured out how capable he was, really tried to put something together for him that would allow him to camouflage his skill until the PAC match and then the PAC match was when we started to unleash all this stuff we had been holding back,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n<p>It was billed as \u201che\u2019s gonna try\u201d against PAC. Cassidy lost, but the outing received 3 \u00be stars from the Wrestling Observer\u2019s Dave Meltzer and gave fans a bigger glimpse of what he could really do in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>Khan noted that Cassidy only raised his stock when AEW was dealing with a smaller roster during tapings at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. He was able to work and \u201creally stepped for us\u201d in the boss\u2019 eyes. That momentum carried him to his match with Jericho at Fyter Fest last week.<\/p>\n<p>Jericho was also not a believer in Cassidy when he first signed with AEW. On his most recent \u201cSaturday Night Special\u201d on YouTube Live, Jericho said he initially thought Cassidy\u2019s gimmick \u201cwas s\u2013t\u201d and he was \u201cmaking a mockery of the business.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15991077\"><img alt=\"AEW\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"661\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Orange Cassidy and Chris Jericho on AEW Dynamite<\/span><span>All Elite Wrestling<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jericho quickly got over it.<\/p>\n<p>In a February interview with The Post when talking about Cassidy and Marko Stunt, he had a \u201cget your head out of your own ass Jericho and realize that over is over\u201d moment. Cassidy was the first person he mentioned when asked who he wanted to still have a match against in AEW.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy is so over, amazing,\u201d Jericho said at the time. \u201cI want a piece of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When he did, it turned in one of the more talked about matches of the year \u2013 4 \u00bd stars from the Wrestling Observer \u2013 and a match in Khan\u2019s eyes that proves Cassidy is a \u201cmain event star.\u201d Their feud is not over. After Cassidy had orange juice dumped on Jericho and his Inner Circle faction on Wednesday night\u2019s Dynamite, the former AEW champion said there will be a rematch.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Jericho hopes their first encounter proved Cassidy is the real deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really enjoyed the match,\u201d Jericho said on his Saturday Night Special. \u201cI think we really showed him in a different light so that all his haters and all of his critics can eat their words about this.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/16\/how-aew-chris-jericho-feud-made-orange-cassidy-a-main-event-star\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#How Orange Cassidy turned into AEW\u2019s new breakout star&#8221; All Elite Wrestling ensured Orange Cassidy was lightly squeezed leading up to his Fyter Fest match against Chris Jericho. The strategy was all part of the plan Tony Khan formulated that slowly turned the comedy wrestler into a viable \u201cmain event star\u201d once the AEW president&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39770],"class_list":["post-28638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-how-orange-cassidy-turned-into-aews-new-breakout-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}