Orange Cassidy wants there to be room for both.
AEW is known for ♕its 🐼passionate fan base, but the company has sometimes drawn criticism for not reaching more casual viewers. However, AEW drew in some non-wrestling fans by having "Big Boom" AJ, Big Justice, and The Rizzler appear at AEW Full Gear.
Speaking with Bill Apter for , Orange Cassidy was asked whether he felt that the A﷽EW fan was similar to a modern-day ECW fan. Cassidy highlighted how there were some simil🃏arities and said that he wanted there to be room for passionate fans and casual viewers in AEW.
“That’s interesting. I see that…I think what ECW has better than anybody was a passionate fan base. I think they had a dedicated, passionate fan base. I think they love their professional wrestling, and I think they wanted to see great professional wrestling. They wanted all types of it. We talk about the hardcore stuff, but really, Dean Malenko and Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio and Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho, all of these guys came through, some of the best wrestlers to ever do it. I used to love ECW opening up with a Triple Threat, it’d be like Super Crazy and Tajiri, they would do incredible things. Nowadays, everybody wrestles like RVD and Jerry Lynn. I feel that there is an AEW fan is a true, passionate professional wrestling fan, and I love them for it, but I also want there to be room, I want them to make room for the person who just wants to pop in and have a good time. I think it’s important, especially me, I try as best as I can to get some people back into professional wrestling or into professional wrestling, those casual fans as we like to say. I really want AEW to be a place where if you want to analyze every little thing and get down to the details, you can. But I also want you to be like, ‘Oh, AEW’s in town, I just want to go to the show;’ to do that too and have a good time," Cassidy said.
During the interview, Cassidy commented on what he would say to AEW naysayers. Check out his comments here.
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