by Orange Cassidy recently was on The Mark Hoke Show, where he talked about Kris Statlander, AEW, Adam Cole, Chris Jericho, and more.
Orange Cassidy on his gimmick
“I could consider myself lucky, or I could consider myself desperate. I have been wrestling for quite a long time, and I have lots of friends in professional wrestling. At a certain point, when you wrestle as long as I have been, you see all the people that you came up with and all the people that are your friends get signed to different places, go do great things, travel around the world and you’re still doing the small town stuff.”
“You kind of have nothing to lose, right?. And clearly, no one was interested in me. It wasn’t anything I was doing that was working because I was listening to the advice of people that worked for them, so I just decided to just do the opposite, and whatever I could do to stand out and be able to show everyone who Orange Cassidy is by being different is what I did, and it started to work.”
“I just started to be who I really am. I started just being lazy. I started doing what I wanted to do. I tried to get in people’s heads, and I think it resonated with people because you can identify with everybody. Everybody can identify with having to get up and go to work and not really wanting to be there but still doing a good job, and I think that’s what I try to embody.”
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