Orange Cassidy Opens Up About Recovery From Torn Pec, Feels Pressure To Be Big TV Wrestler Again

Candid comments from Cassidy.

Orange Cassidy is back in the swing of in-ring action for All Elite Wrestling. He had been sidelined since March 2025.

He suffered a torn pectoral muscle, and he opened up the recovery while on Off The Ropes with Jonathan Coachman.

“It didn’t feel great,” Cassidy said about the physical toll of being back in the mix of in-ring competition. “This injury that I had, the torn pec, it was the longest I’d ever went in my 20-something-year wrestling career that was longer than three months of an injury so, it took me about six and a half months. So this is like the longest I’ve gone without stepping in the ring, and the first thing they do when I come back is, ‘Okay, do a little six-man with The Conglomeration.’ ‘Oh, that’s great. I’m having a good time.’ Then it’s, ‘Okay, Kyle Fletcher. Singles match, have a good time,’ and then it’s like, ‘Oh, you know that guy you wrestled all the time who’s your biggest rival? Yeah, yeah, go have a match with him too.’ ‘Okay, okay, great.’ You know what? I got those out of the way so, if I can handle those, who cares what’s next?”

Cassidy went on to state that he feels the pressure of being the television wrestler he was before the injury.

“Yeah,” Cassidy responded when asked if he feels the pressure to be on top again in AEW. “I mean, always, especially, starting in the early days in AEW, no one had any expectations for me… It was just like, ‘Oh, he’s the funny guy. He puts his hands in his pockets and does some stuff,’ and then I started wrestling, and then I started wrestling a little bit more, and then I wrestled more and then I become a champion for however long — many months — and then twice over, and now, I have the expectation of, hey, are you gonna do that again? And it’s like, I really wish people knew how little thought I have about what the future holds for me. I literally just show up and do what’s in front of me. I don’t think about anything. I do feel the pressure though of being that television wrestler that I was before. But luckily, we have the amount of talent we have surrounding us and the amount of talent we get to wrestle against, it makes things a little easier.”

Cassidy headlined AEW Dynamite: Title Tuesday and picked up a win over PAC in singles competition. It was Cassidy’s fourth match back.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Off The Ropes with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.