Ranking Every AEW Championship Reign Of 2023

17. Orange Cassidy - AEW International Championship

Orange Cassidy
AEW

As previously stated, the International Championship has had a cursed few months near the end of 2023. Putting the belt back on its most faithful champion in Orange Cassidy at least made sense. With OC besting his biggest challenge in Jon Moxley at Full Gear though, the question now is what next?

Does Cassidy continue to dominate the mid-card by defending the title every week? Does he enter another major feud with the belt as a centerpiece? Or is it perhaps time for him to move onto something else entirely? The main event scene is not really in a place that has space for OC, considering it's already occupied by MJF, Cole, Samoa Joe, Roddy Strong and the mystery Devil storyline, but how long before he feels much bigger than the spot he's in?

There's a lot of intrigue regarding the future of the International Championship, and the chance to really put someone over when Cassidy drops it for the second - and a perhaps more defintive - time.

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