WWE SummerSlam 2017: Best and Worst Moments

Worst: RK No

Randy Orton has been a WWE superstar for roughly 15 years. That’s a decade and a half. Orton’s debut predates the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Impact Wrestling, and Twilight – both the awful books and the terrible movies.

And for the vast majority of that decade and a half, I have been thoroughly underwhelmed by all things Orton. The best thing he’s ever done was the RNN News Updates he did when he was out with one of his many shoulder injuries. His appeal, as far as I see it, is the start of his music, his corner pose, and his finisher. That’s it.

I’m not discounting his achievements – you have to be pretty good to be a 13-time world champion. And wrestling is in his blood, and he’s perfectly good at what he does. I just don’t like what he does, if that makes sense.

So at SummerSlam, when it looked like Rusev got the jump on him before the bell, I was excited. Randy was going to have to fight from behind, and maybe show something his character doesn’t often show. But the longer it took for him to get up, the worse I started to feel about what was about to happen.

And lo and behold, Orton got up, the bell rang, Rusev attempted an attack, and Orton hit an RKO from outta nowhere, and got the fastest victory in WWE since Corbin’s failed cash-in on Tuesday.

If I were Rusev, I’d be fuming. Guy missed WrestleMania due to injury, and was basically forgotten about for weeks. Then he comes back, loses to Cena in a Flag Match, and gets booked in a six second match at the second biggest show of the year? Ugh.