Others receiving votes: Orange Cassidy [1]

Poor Orange didn’t get much love from our side in this one. But one man’s whatever is a whatever faction’s gain as The Undisputed Kingdom now has some AEW gold in its ranks. (Note the clarification there: AEW gold. It’s different.)

Strong’s run in AEW so far has been, well, strong, so good for him to get some payoff in the form of a midcard title and, if we’re being authentic here, we should recognize the equity built into the International Championship thanks to Cassidy, who held it in this run for nearly five months and has had the belt over two reigns for 471 combined days of the 617 in its existence. (For the purposes of this superfluous math, we’re respecting the lineage of its predecessor, the AEW All-Atlantic Championship.)

Looks like, from here, Strong has some business with the newly-returned Kyle O’Reilly, who feigned an attack on the new champ, only to embrace his old friend, but then decline an offer to officially join the group moments later. As for Cassidy, it wouldn’t be too surprising to see the former champ take some time off. After all, it’s hard work opening just about every episode of “Dynamite” since the beginning of time.