Orange Cassidy Admits He Feels Pressure Coming Back From Injury
Orange Cassidy recently returned to AEW after a serious injury, and he’s feeling the pressure early on.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Orange Cassidy was a recent guest on Off The Ropes. While discussing his torn pectoral injury that put him on the shelf for over six months, Cassidy admitted it didn’t feel great being back in the ring after so much time off.
“It didn’t feel great,” Orange Cassidy admitted. “This injury that I had, the torn pec, it was the longest I’d ever went in my 20-something-year wrestling career, that was longer than three months of an injury, so it took me about six and a half months.
“So this is like the longest I’ve gone without stepping in the ring, and the first thing they do when I come back is, ‘Okay, do a little six-man with The Conglomeration.’ ‘Oh, that’s great. I’m having a good time.’
“Then it’s, ‘Okay, Kyle Fletcher. Singles match, have a good time,’ and then it’s like, ‘Oh, you know that guy you wrestled all the time who’s your biggest rival? Yeah, yeah, go have a match with him too.’ ‘Okay, okay, great.’ You know what? I got those out of the way, so if I can handle those, who cares what’s next?”
Orange Cassidy is feeling the pressure…
When asked if he feels pressure to be back on top of the card in AEW like he was before the injury, Cassidy said he does.
“Yeah, I mean, always,” Orange Cassidy said. “Especially, starting in the early days in AEW, no one had any expectations for me… It was just like, ‘Oh, he’s the funny guy. He puts his hands in his pockets and does some stuff,’ and then I started wrestling, and then I started wrestling a little bit more, and then I wrestled more, and then I become a champion for however long — many months, and then twice over.
And now, I have the expectation of, hey, are you gonna do that again? And it’s like, I really wish people knew how little thought I have about what the future holds for me. I literally just show up and do what’s in front of me. I don’t think about anything.
“I do feel the pressure, though, of being that television wrestler that I was before. But luckily, we have the amount of talent we have surrounding us and the amount of talent we get to wrestle against, it makes things a little easier.” [H/T: Fightful]
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