Sportskeeda's own Gary Cassidy talks about WWE, music, writing about wrestling, ICW, tattoos and more (Exclusive)

Gary Cassidy talks about his tattoos, WWE, NXT, AEW, and the amazing wrestling content available

Gary Cassidy with Andy Black

AB: You have some of the best looking tattoos I have seen. What are some of your favorites and why are they important to you?

GC: "Thanks again! I’ve not always had good looking ones. Back when I was around 20, I was an idiot and tattooed myself. So it’s been nice moving on from there. A lot of people over exaggerate meanings behind them and stuff, but if I was to get back to why I have them – in primary school, we moved area. Not too far away, around 20 minutes away, but I went to a different primary school. As always, moving to a different school can be tough. I had a tough time at school. When I eventually said to my parents that I was getting bullied a little bit, they moved me back to the school that I was at in the first place. But between primary school and secondary school, it’s a much bigger place. I feel like everyone goes through this… well maybe not everyone, but the majority of people. You go into such a big place like high school and you start to feel invisible. I think that coupled with my love of wrestling and music where a lot of people have tattoos, I think that was my way to stand out and just be me."

"I’ve got everything from reminders of family members who have passed away to Simpsons characters, Disney characters, and even have a Luchador mask tattooed on me to signify my love of wrestling. But if I look back at myself two years ago, man I looked so odd, having less tattoos. I am happy with myself, and writing about wrestling gave me confidence, but having tattoos and stuff that really gives me confidence in myself. It’s not an easy process getting them done by any means. But afterwards it’s really enjoyable to look at and go like, ‘ah, I’ve got stuff I really care about and really enjoy every day on my own skin.’ There’s a lot of wrestlers right now with tattoos like Baron Corbin and Ruby Riott, looking at them on TV you just want to know everything about every tattoo that they have on them. Being a wrestling fan with tattoos, watching Superstar Ink and stuff like that, it’s really cool to get to know their stories. Sadly that sometimes gives it away when they are heel and not talking about that stuff that’s really personal to them. It makes them hard to hate. "

AB: Wrapping up, is there any message you have for any wrestling fans reading this?

"A cheeky one I’d say go to Sportskeeda and read my articles and then go to YouTube and watch Dropkick DiSKussions (laughs)."

"But I think that with every interview with any wrestler that I have, there’s always this one core thing that I speak about is what an exciting time it is to be a wrestling fan right now. The UK Scene is incredible right now. It’s not been this way since at least before I was born. Then you go to America and what a typical week of watching wrestling would follow, it would be RAW, SmackDown, Impact, AEW, NXT, and that’s before you even look at stuff like NJPW, Ring of Honor, MLW, there’s NXT UK, there’s 205 Live."

"There’s so much talk right now of WWE vs AEW, it’s great as a writer. For me, there is no versus. They can compete and they are probably going to compete, but as a viewer and writer, I can enjoy everything if it’s enjoyable. If I did not enjoy it, then I probably would not watch it and not write about it. But for me, if it’s good, then I’m going to watch everything. I would just encourage any wrestling fan, to watch WWE and AEW and everything out there, there’s so much content that there’s something that you are going to enjoy watching. Why would you spend your time talking about something that you don’t enjoy watching? So just enjoy wrestling, because it’s amazing."

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