10 Times Wrestlers Got Over With ONE Match

10. Orange Cassidy

Orange Cassidy was already over - to a consistent, improbable and thoroughly endearing extent - when he wrestled his first AEW singles match at Revolution.

Newer disciples flocked to his hilarious, shrugging persona and his tremendous, outrageously athletic cameos, but the more intent of fans knew of his ability to work - provided his opponents prod him hard enough - a scintillating match in the classic underdog babyface mode.

Orange Cassidy worked the secret Orange Cassidy match - the major label David Starr match - to incredible effect at Revolution. He drew PAC into his psychological ploy with an earned, protracted spot of calf-grazing, and in a superb punchline, PAC, so miserable and intense, joined in on the bit. Cassidy tore the roof off with a heartfelt, deeply authentic selling performance - the genius of his irony is that it makes his subsequent plight that much sharper, more perilous - in which he rolled slowly from side to side to lure his opponent into the danger of his legitimately jaw-dropping explosion of a comeback. But even before that crescendo, Cassidy got over as a true modern magician. How he does lucha libre - a more cooperative genre viewed through a western lens - with his hands in his pockets is astonishing.

That persona of Cassidy's is genuinely aspirational in a world of such strain and anxiety, and that is before these grim events unfolded. The reaction he generates isn't knowing.

He is the wrestler for these times.