Orange Cassidy: I Feel I Have Something To Prove Now As AEW International Champion
Orange Cassidy comments on regaining the AEW International Championship.
On the October 10 episode of AEW Dynamite, Orange Cassidy regained the AEW International Championship by defeating Rey Fenix. Cassidy had lost the title to Jon Moxley at AEW All Out, but Moxley lost the title to Fenix at AEW Dynamite Grand Slam.
Now that Cassidy is the champion again, he doesn’t plan on letting the belt go.
“I don’t ever plan to. I didn’t plan on losing in the first place,” he said in an interview with Bex & Buster. “I get that question a lot. ‘What’s next for you?’ I never like to think too far ahead. This is the most important thing, and it was the most important thing. When I lost it, I was kind of like, I didn’t really feel like I had a purpose, which is bizarre for a human being to say, and it’s something I never thought I would experience. When your identity, for almost a year, is that you’re the International Champion that is so used to wrestling and defending the belt every single week, and when you don’t, you’re kind of lost. When the opportunity came up of me trying to get it back, I obviously took it. Rey Fenix is one of the best wrestlers in the world, but he was banged up, if not as bad or worse than I was when I lost it. I have it now, I’m very grateful, there’s unfinished business I have with this, and it has to do with the person that took it from me in the first place. I feel like I have something to prove now. The first time around, I was just defending it to win. I don’t think I have to prove anything to anybody, ever, but for some reason I think I do. Maybe it’s in my head.”
Orange Cassidy successfully defended the AEW International Championship against Jon Silver at AEW Battle of the Belts VIII.
Before the bout, Cassidy bumped into Jon Moxley, leading to a skirmish between the two men.
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