10 Wrestlers That Pissed Off The Fans
8. Orange Cassidy
Orange Cassidy has broken "kayfabe" precisely zero times in AEW.
Precisely zero of his opponents have sold for his slow, deliberately weak kicks, which he throws lightly to lull them into a lunging, easily countered attack.
Nor does every one of his opponents stand there and look pissed off, rendering it too contrived. Some wrestlers just batter him from the jump.
The grazed kick isn't some disgrace to realism. It is a platform on which a wrestler can express their character through their response to it.
The objective of any babyface is to pop the crowd with their comeback. This can be accomplished in various ways. Some - indeed most - opt for a high spot. Knowing that stunning athleticism is normal, a bit boring and rarely effective now, Cassidy puts his hands in his pockets to create the illusion that what he is doing is impossible, as opposed to something that can be executed safely with a sufficient amount of practise.
The man continues to piss off some fans despite their imagined bad faith projections of what he actually does in the ring.
It would be astonishing, if it couldn't be reduced to the initials of the promotion for which he works.