Randy Orton Busted Open At Summerslam One Year Later

[Kevin Hamilton]

Was dopey in the sense that hardwaying a dude on purpose is dopey, but was not outraged or even mildly perturbed.

Willingly taking a concussion is goofy though.

[hossfan]

I like a lot of people assumed there'd be a F5 into an RKO spot. Maybe they couldn't get it to work and decided instead to let Brock go ham on Randy to make the match memorable.

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

Man. I forgot about him hitting the F5 on Shane.

[bearned]

I like the idea of making Brock look like a cold, heartless monster but there are a thousand ways in wrestling he could have done that without, y'know, injuring a guy deliberately.

[Deleted]

It was just so disappointing. The match sucked, short, and anti climatic. Like as stupid as f*** the ending was and the attempt of I can bust you the hard way with no concussion attempt, they couldn't have tried after having competitive fun match?

It was bad and they should feel bad

[Bub (BLM)]

It was stupid. Everyone was excited for this gorilla vs. snake dynamic, and wondering how Randy would counter the F5 into an RKO, so naturally they just have Randy play punching bag for 5 minutes.

[KobashiChop]

No idea why anyone thought having Brock elbow the shit out of Randys head was a good idea. It just came off as ridiculous.

The one highlight for me is that my 21 year old brother who I watch almost every PPV with was convinced it was a shoot and started sounding off on how much of a shitbag Brock was.

[ssdrivin]

Hell of an image to end on, particularly these days where blood (especially that much blood) is kinda rare, but a disappointing let down of a match. For me it's just another throbbing beacon in the trail of "let's feed anybody worth a damn to Lesnar", a symbol among many of just how boring and pointless I find anything involving him. I like Orton, maybe I'm biased, but there's only so many times you can pull the "can top level superstar finally topple Brock?" before it becomes a treadmill of inevitability and boredom.

I hate that Brock is and has been so far above everybody else, it takes the fun out of any match he's in, I admit I come back every now and then to see if it's going to happen (I'm a wrestling fan after all, I'm practically programmed to do that) but I'm always let down by it, the whole thing is grinding and tiresome. It's like Taker's streak though, only without the decades of earned goodwill and entertainment value - you know he's going to win, but at least Taker tried to put on top class matches and didn't just uneventfully destroy his opponents. Brock just ends up making other top guys look like total chumps, it's miserable.