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Championship Contender
Randy Orton has been stuck in a lacklustre title reign as the sole WHC of the WWE. In a recent column, Chris Cash puts it well when he said that the focus of the WWE in the last many months has been anyone BUT randy orton. Randy Orton has seemingly done it all, not unlike John Cena. He's had protracted feuds with HHH, Batista, and John Cena- 3 of his only biggest rivals of the 2000s. He's had dozens of minor feuds, emerged victorious, and has basically beaten everybody there is to beat- from Ric Flair to Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker to John Cena. He can't even wait or live for that "one last greatest match or moment" against The Undertaker at Wrestlemania, which he's done long ago. That's what John Cena must wait for, after having surmounted The Rock and Brock Lesnar.
Most people including me hardly find Randy Orton as a character interesting in the least anymore. Sure, he's a hell of a wrestler and one of the must-see wrestlers on any single wrestling event. But, there are only so many times a character can turn face and heel, and win, lose, and regain the WWE WHC. What's left for Randy?
Don't get me wrong this is a thread about Randy and yet not about Randy.
What if Evolution unites again? It sure is one of the few highly consequential and successful factions but the only one to never have a Rebirth, Reformation, or Resurrection. What if , Randy Orton were to lead Evolution once again? A Re-evolution of sorts? Bring back Ric Flair, have Randy be the new HHH, with or without the WWE WHC, and have 2 relatively young good-looking superstars with decent mic skills to form the new evolution- Revolution.
I would choose Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow.
Now I know Rhodes has had a history with Orton, but the Legacy faction was quite jaded and did not quite have the multi-dimensionalism of a DX or an Evolution. Partly because it was all about Randy being a great heel champion ,and partly because Ted Debiase Jr was simply an odd man out, and had the charisma and mic skills of a Curtis Axel. Their body types even look similar. Not muscular or totally ripped, nor suffiently bulky but just tall and lanky-looking. But I digress.
Cody Rhodes too, has done quite a bit in wrestling on the mid-card level. He's been a great heel, a great face, tag-champ multiple times, IC champ, but now he's just stuck with Goldust, and it doesn't seem he's going to be featured as a main-eventer anytime soon. Why not have him restart his career for a short time as an Evolution member? maybe win the IC title again?
Damien Sandow is self-explanatory. He's got it all, size, charisma, mic skills, desire. But he doesn't have mentorship, or the right amount of "Rub" so to speak, which Orton did have from 2002-2004. Where would Orton have been had he still been on Smackdown and never gotten Evolution? World Champ? sure. But not so soon as at Summerslam 2004 .
What are your thoughts? Do you think Revolution, or Evolution 2.0 could save his very bleak career(sure, he's the WWE WHC, but consider how Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns are much more of a highlight weekly than Orton)
If you agree Orton should lead this faction, do you want Ric Flair back as the mouthpiece? Whom would you include, besides Rhodes and Sandow?
Most people including me hardly find Randy Orton as a character interesting in the least anymore. Sure, he's a hell of a wrestler and one of the must-see wrestlers on any single wrestling event. But, there are only so many times a character can turn face and heel, and win, lose, and regain the WWE WHC. What's left for Randy?
Don't get me wrong this is a thread about Randy and yet not about Randy.
What if Evolution unites again? It sure is one of the few highly consequential and successful factions but the only one to never have a Rebirth, Reformation, or Resurrection. What if , Randy Orton were to lead Evolution once again? A Re-evolution of sorts? Bring back Ric Flair, have Randy be the new HHH, with or without the WWE WHC, and have 2 relatively young good-looking superstars with decent mic skills to form the new evolution- Revolution.
I would choose Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow.
Now I know Rhodes has had a history with Orton, but the Legacy faction was quite jaded and did not quite have the multi-dimensionalism of a DX or an Evolution. Partly because it was all about Randy being a great heel champion ,and partly because Ted Debiase Jr was simply an odd man out, and had the charisma and mic skills of a Curtis Axel. Their body types even look similar. Not muscular or totally ripped, nor suffiently bulky but just tall and lanky-looking. But I digress.
Cody Rhodes too, has done quite a bit in wrestling on the mid-card level. He's been a great heel, a great face, tag-champ multiple times, IC champ, but now he's just stuck with Goldust, and it doesn't seem he's going to be featured as a main-eventer anytime soon. Why not have him restart his career for a short time as an Evolution member? maybe win the IC title again?
Damien Sandow is self-explanatory. He's got it all, size, charisma, mic skills, desire. But he doesn't have mentorship, or the right amount of "Rub" so to speak, which Orton did have from 2002-2004. Where would Orton have been had he still been on Smackdown and never gotten Evolution? World Champ? sure. But not so soon as at Summerslam 2004 .
What are your thoughts? Do you think Revolution, or Evolution 2.0 could save his very bleak career(sure, he's the WWE WHC, but consider how Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns are much more of a highlight weekly than Orton)
If you agree Orton should lead this faction, do you want Ric Flair back as the mouthpiece? Whom would you include, besides Rhodes and Sandow?