Top AEW Star Doesn’t Want To Be Face Of The Company
A top AEW star is questioning their role in the company.
Since returning to AEW in late August, Jon Moxley has been on a mission. The star has flipped not only the Blackpool Combat Club but the entire company on its head.
With Moxley back in the fold he recruited Marina Shafir, and the BCC has proceeded to destroy everyone they’ve come across. This included ending Bryan Danielson’s career in the most incredible fashion, sending him out on a stretcher in front of his home crowd.
On the October 23rd edition of Dynamite, that path of destruction continued. As the show was about to end, the faction arrived and promptly attacked Daniel Garcia and Private Party with chairs. Moxley then dragged Chuck Taylor to the ring, and Claudio Castagnoli stomped on a chair across his throat.
As the episode went off the air, Orange Cassidy arrived in the ring seconds too late to save his friend.
Orange Cassidy Struggling With AEW Dynamics
During an interview with Good Karma Wrestling, Cassidy was asked whether he ever thought he’d be the face of AEW. The star said while it’s something he never wanted, he feels after the events of Dynamite, he has little choice.
“No, and I don’t think that I am, nor should I be. I don’t want that. I never wanted that. I wanted to do what I had to do and go home. After what happened last night, it’s been made very clear to me that I think I have no choice in the situation.
Before, early in AEW, there was always this thing of ‘Oh, he’s going to try. He’ll care this time.’ I don’t feel that I have any choice in this matter. I have to fight now. I have to fight. I don’t want to, but if the people around me that I care about the most are going to be hurt, then I really have no choice in the matter,”
Looking ahead, Cassidy said he’ll make his thoughts clear on October 30th.
“At that very moment, it was, I was literally one second late. I slid into the ring right as Claudio was stomping the chair on his neck. I’m not very calculated, obviously, I just react. All day, I was just reacting. Earlier in the night, Chuck said stuff to me that I needed to hear, it’s what a good friend would do. I’m just reacting.
I never thought I’d see him laid out again. He was injured before by Trent, and to see that again, it’s something I never thought I would have to see, but I did. At that moment, I don’t want to take the cop out answer and say I blacked out. Just everything that was going on, it wasn’t something I expected. All of my thoughts will be made clear on Dynamite. The Fright Night thing.”
It was recently reported that Jon Moxley is set to stay with AEW until at least 2027 after signing a three-year contract in 2022.
H/t to Fightful