Why AEW’s New Signing Is Controversial (But WILL Get Over)

Did you sit down before that superb, believable war between Seth Rollins and Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam, and then stand back up, saying to yourself that “Joey Ryan got his d*ck touched once, so I can’t watch this”?

Ronda Rousey buried WWE as “fake” ahead of her WrestleMania 35 main event. This acknowledgement, no different to Cassidy’s, really, didn’t ruin the match. That match underwhelmed on its own merits, and because it arrived seven hours deep into an exhausting, loaded show.

In New Japan Pro Wrestling, the opponents of Toru Yano get on his wavelength and perform revealing comedy spots they’d never do, in the context of their own matches. They become dumber, more susceptible to the roll-up, because it’s a Toru Yano match. The mere existence of a Yano match on the same card doesn’t undermine the quality of New Japan’s transcendent main event epics; if anything, Yano lightens and diversifies New Japan cards, and if it isn’t for you, you can simply ignore it.

WWE fans might read all this, and cry 'Bullsh*t', but the recent Roman Reigns storyline has created two major crime scenes, and no police arrived on the scene because it's patently absurd. American wrestling is; Cassidy is just a new and more fashionable update ripe for the experimentation of the undercard.

‘Everybody is here for the wrestler with his hands in his pockets’ is as much Twitter Moment fodder as the tube fish. A lot of people are concerned that Cassidy might alienate wrestling fans.

Since Orange Cassidy is the perfect pro wrestler for the meme generation, the opposite might well be true.