In a recent interview with The Athletic, AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy discussed several topics, including why he does not like the term “comedy wrestler”, generating emotions from the audience and much more.

“I don’t really like the term comedy wrestler, because I feel that professional wrestling is an art, this is the art I create, and art to me should generate emotions out of people, those emotions could be laughter, they could also be joy, it could also be sadness, it could be regret, it could be depression. If I was just a comedic wrestler, would people really care, would they be invested.

You can watch a movie that’s just laughs for 90 minutes, but there’s always a part that makes you really care, it’s why I’m very grateful for AEW, because I can flex those different muscles, evoke those different emotions that I wouldn’t be able to if I was somewhere else, I’d be a one-note joke, people would get tired of it after six months and I’d be done, you have to be a professional wrestler first and foremost to evoke any type of emotion.”

The full interview is available at this link.