10 AEW Full Gear 2020 Impulse Reactions
8. Orange Cassidy Vs. John Silver
A battle between the company's current most potent boy-popper and the man that very much embodied the potent spirit of it in Dynamite's earliest days was destined to play with the tenets of comedy as well as action and drama.
Regardless of the laughs at the start though, Orange Cassidy and John Silver proved how worthy they both were of the promotion to the main card they received late last week. Particularly Silver, who worked tirelessly in kayfabe and reality to address the Dark Order's recent slide. That he failed only triggered visuals of the possible grief he'll endure from Mr Brodie Lee after the fact.
Getting put over huge all the way through by Jim Ross and Excalibur, the match was great but the conscious effort to position Silver as a star of tomorrow was even better. It's really quite something how Orange Cassidy was in this role just a few months ago - he was every bit the confident made man helping make another here. Another clean finish arrived at with relative ease put the Dark Order man away as the contest satisfied the brief of being both enjoyable undercard fare and an energetic let-me-up following the opener.