Credit: All Elite WrestlingOrange Cassidy, Trent Beretta, Chuck Taylor, Eddie Kingston and Penta El Zero Miedo vs. Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Santana and Ortiz
Orange Cassidy proved his toughness Sunday, wrapping his hand in glass-covered duct tape and rocking Claudio Castagnoli with an Orange Punch to score the win in a brutal Stadium Stampede match.
This contest won't mean much a month from now when the next uber-violent contest is trotted out on television or PPV.
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Sunday's bout was wild and chaotic and would have meant so much more as a feud-ender had we not had Anarchy in the Arena, Blood & Guts, a parking lot brawl all in short order.
None of the spots were particularly memorable outside of the momentary reaction they garnered on social media, mostly because there has been a desensitization to it in the last three months.
Cassidy breaking out of his lackadaisical shell and pulling out all the stops as he earned the win should have meant so much more. Instead, it was another violent brawl that felt like more of the same rather than the defining match it should have been for those involved.
Cassidy, Best Friends, Kingston and Penta defeated Moxley, Castagnoli, Yuta, Santana and Ortiz
Top Moments and Takeaways
- Moxley endured cooking skewers to the forehead, stumbling around to sell the imagery of violence.
- Santana powerbombed Penta through chairs, leaving the former tag champion unable to continue.
- Moxley stabbed Cassidy in the forehead with a fork.
- Berreta's mom, Sue, drove her trademark white van into the stadium, drawing a big pop.
- Penta reemerged later as Penta Oscuro, the darker version of the luchador. Whatever.
- Kingston made another dramatic, late-match return, this time with a steel chair wrapped in barbed wire. He attacked Castagnoli in a moment of continuity in his hatred for the ROH world champion and then set aside his friendship with Moxley to do battle with him.
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