8 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dynamite (1 May - Results & Review)
6. What Next For Orange Cassidy, Trent Beretta & Don Callis?
Yet more intriguing developments in the Best Friends saga continued in making Trent Beretta’s divorce from the group one of the more satisfying AEW tales of 2024.
After the brutal Parking Lot Brawl on Friday’s Rampage, Orange Cassidy was out to deliver news he was openly devastated to have to share - Chuck Taylor’s career was over. It made Beretta’s heel turn on the group a true transgression, if it wasn’t already, and when he arrived to interrupt Cassidy’s sad speech, it pushed the former International Champion over the edge.An uncomfortable air hung over their subsequent pull-apart on the ramp, then cameras pulled out and revealed why - Don Callis was there. ‘The Invisible Hand’ had appeared to be pointing towards recruiting Beretta prior to this, but the reveal that he was in Cassidy’s ear (or at very least attempting to rent a space there) was a shockingly grim visual.
He put an arm around ‘Freshly Squeezed’ and led him away, though it wasn’t reciprocated. For now. The prospect of a distracted and disillusioned Orange being lured to the Don Callis Family is only topped by the inevitable moment he reveals he too pure to ever embrace the dark side. Assuming AEW show commitment in the follow-through, this could be the angle that propels Cassidy permanently into an upper echelon he should have spent much longer mixing in with.