5 Wrestlers Who Will Get Over In AEW (And 5 Who Won't)
6. Orange Cassidy WILL...
Pockets? That piece of sh*t, who disrespects this business?
He's already answered the furore that exploded upon the news that AEW had signed him a few months back. Some had it that his ironic, revealing gimmick would clash with AEW's sports-oriented presentation, but he has firmly connected with virtually every fan, and not just the hardcore of hardcores, on the (admittedly scant) evidence of his cameos. And, to take a victory lap, the following was written in my article 'Why AEW's New Signing Is Controversial (But Will Get Over)':
"‘Everybody is here for the wrestler with his hands in his pockets’ is as much Twitter Moment fodder as the tube fish."
Cassidy's hands-in-pockets suicide dive at All Out did in fact go viral.
Cassidy is a fashionable wrestler for the ironic, detached millennial generation, who are drawn to his unusual, aloof persona because it's so striking, funny, and perfect in this mainstream context. His attire is already so iconic that kids are copying it in the front row, and AEW has thus far stripped the meta overtones and deployed the act as a crowd-pleasing high spot merchant.
And on the following evidence, they will continue to absorb it into a more credible context - only successfully.