Randy Orton in 2018

[Bub (BLM)]

What the heck are they doing with this guy? The little rivalry with Roode was okay, but now the US Title is on Jinder Mahal, and Randy is number one contender. They already feuded last year and it was awful. I'm not sure why they'd go back to the well.

Honestly, I've felt that they've got no idea what to do with him since The Authority more or less ended. He needs a direction. He's still over as hell and capable of great things in the ring. They have got to have something better they could be doing with him.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

What CAN you do with Orton that hasn’t been done already?

[chazraps]

FEUD WITH JARRETT!

[Bub (BLM)]

Apr 10, 2018 22:29:15 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

What CAN you do with Orton that hasn’t been done already?

Dropping the viper gimmick and using him as more of a special attraction would be a good start.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Orton is in my top 5 wrestlers of all time but it bugs me they still have him portray this Viper character when he should be Randy Orton the guy by now

Randy in the mid card isn't bad as he's always willing to put people over but they seem to not know what to do with him on a consistent basis

He's been back for a while so he's due some time off but yeah either give him something to sink his teeth into or figure something out

[häšhtå.gdālėÿ]

Randy needs a vacation. He was so painfully sleepwalking at Mania... and if you're sleepwalking at Mania it's time for a recharge break.

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Hope there's a proper feud between him and heel Nakamura at some point. They strangely worked well as partners and they had a pretty cool match back in the fall.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Apr 10, 2018 22:51:17 GMT -5 @dax said:

Hope there's a proper feud between him and heel Nakamura at some point.

Yes

I been wanting a match again between them for months but with Randy in the heel role

Heel Nak against Face Randy would be fun

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Let's send him to 205 Live.

[Tiger Millionaire]

Apr 10, 2018 22:29:15 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

What CAN you do with Orton that hasn’t been done already?

Make him entertaining?

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Apr 10, 2018 23:00:04 GMT -5 @mrsirdrdaddy said:

Let's send him to 205 Live.

Pay him with some of DelRio's nose clams reserve and watch the ratings spike as he sees 20+ Singh brothers.

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There's no way he should have gone over tonight. Let alone the fact we know he's not beating Jinder at all for the belt. That was Rusev's time to shine. Shit, Orton's probably not even wanting to do this. He just wants to get paid and not hold a belt.

[Starshine]

So who did Orton upset to get stuck on repeat putting over Mahal so many times?

[Rudy Gobert Fadeaway]

Dude's phoning it in so hard that he's literally become a sentient phone tbh

[Gus Richlen: Ruffian]

Apr 11, 2018 0:59:39 GMT -5 Starshine said:

So who did Orton upset to get stuck on repeat putting over Mahal so many times?

Probably the same people who:

- Fed Asuka to Charlotte for reasons unknown
- Had a Cena/Undertaker feud where Undertaker didn't show up until the very end
- Had Mahal win the title in the first place
- Have booked Roman Reigns into oblivion
- Have booked Bayley into oblivion
- Have booked Bray Wyatt into oblivion
- Have booked Rusev into oblivion
- Booked Alexa Bliss to be a destroyer and be competitive against Nia Jax
- Booked Lesnar to murder everyone
- Booked Braun to go comedic
- [INSERT DUMB THING CREATIVE HAS DONE HERE]

[Germansuplex]

Randy's one of my all-time favorites, but he's been half-assing it for months now. Give him a non-title program with Styles and/or Nakamura, he already had great random matches with them.

[Nosnorb]

Apr 10, 2018 22:32:21 GMT -5 Bub (BLM) said:

Apr 10, 2018 22:29:15 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

What CAN you do with Orton that hasn’t been done already?

Dropping the viper gimmick and using him as more of a special attraction would be a good start.

Problem with that is Orton's drawing power and heat started to take a dive when Triple H chewed him up in the 'Mania main event (he was pulling big numbers before then) and was shot when he was the face in the Christian-Orton feud for some reason. The dude has had the same gimmick for about a decade, the same look for a decade, the same moveset for over a decade, the same matches for a decade, wrestles the same as a face or a heel, and there is literally nothing new that can be done with him. He's just.....there.

A special attraction that consists of the same dude doing the same stuff that he's done for a decade, without moving the needle isn't going to work.

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Send him to Raw, there's a few feuds for him that haven't been done before: Joe, Lashley, Balor, Elias ect. When Jordan comes back he could be a reluctant tag partner for him that could accelerate Jordan's inevitable transformation into the entitled heel character. His deadpan humor could even work well in the Broken universe.

[Final Countdown Jones]

Apr 11, 2018 1:03:03 GMT -5 Rudy Gobert Fadeaway said:

Dude's phoning it in so hard that he's literally become a sentient phone tbh

He needs to go over to Japan and team up with Ishii, the reverse case of an unbreakable Nokia flip phone turned sentient pro wrestler. That would give Randy the fire he needs.

[Nr1Humanoid]

Lighten his character up a bit.