6 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (8 May - Results & Review)
3. Rocky Road
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More on the Orange Cassidy/Trent Beretta saga elsewhere, but Rocky Romero’s strange interaction with him following their match flew in the face of the promo Romero cut literally seven days earlier.
There, he gazed upon the hostile setting and vowed to go it alone. Here, before he’d even locked up in his first singles offering after the speech, he was back asking Orange to patch it up with Trent or find a new partner for them to go for Trios gold. He made his own words meaningless before his actions ultimately failed him later on the show.
This was character development for Cassidy, but there was already enough meat on the bone with him and Don Callis this week to carry the story onto next. A segment ostensibly designed to flesh out one persona instead made a mockery of another. Romero’s so low down in the (kayfabe) pecking order that this is more a nitpick than a “Down”, but the existence of it revealed a slightly frustrating lack of care.
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