The fans have not given a single fuck what this dude has been doing since he won the belt at HIAC.
He either receives silence or people chanting other peoples name nearly every time he's out here, and it evidently bothers him as he has to incoherently shout over the fans in every promo he cuts, or just pauses in the middle of matches and looks lost when the fans chant random shit to fuck with him.
Now granted his booking has been dreadful (being HHH's bitch and emasculated by Stephanie nearly every week) but I thought this guy as a heel would thrive. He may have to turn face because at least the crowd reacted to him. His reign has no heat and if they go a head with Orton V Batista at WM. Get ready for 70'000 die hard smarks to completely humiliate both of them
Do you hate him? Does everybody hate him? Then mission accomplished.
Every heel needs a good face to feud with, but he's been basically booked in heel vs heel (in the crowd's eyes) feuds ever since HIAC, heels feed off top faces, when you're supposed to be a heel but are feuding with a face that is a de facto heel to the crowd, the crowd have nobody to cheer for, the crowd aren't supposed to get behind Orton, they're supposed to get behind his challengers, & he hasn't had likable challengers since DB.
Did Orton make everybody hate him since his heel turn? Yes, then he did his job, everything else is on the booking & not him, his only job as a heel is to make you hate his guts. It's the creative team's job to give him interesting programs against likable challengers.
He's not hated because his angle and character are working.. He's bordering on X-Pac heat at this point.. They hate him because they're sick of seeing him and his same uninspiring routine he's been working for over 10 years and still being handed everything without earning any of it
It hasn't bombed I don't think, it has been rather boring though, then again most world title reigns these days are boring. Look at the past few champions, Cena, Orton, Del Rio, The Rock, CM Punk, all boring reigns in my own opinion (yes my opinion, not everyones). I don't remember any decent reign of a World/WWE champion in the last few years. The last title run I think I actually enjoyed was Mark Henry as World champion, that entertained me.
I love how people use the booking defense, lot of the same people to love to shit on ADR because hes overpushed, Orton has a much better booking than ADR and a BIGGER push, both of them don't deserve their kayfabe accomplishments and Orton should of be depushed like ADR.
I wouldn't say it bombed necessarily because most of his segments have been pulling good numbers atleast he isn't breaking records like Punk`s dreadful reign
I wouldn't say it bombed. He hasn't gotten booked as badly as you might think considering he beat cena clean. The feud with big show and the loss to kofi were the low points for me.
They ruined it by having The Authority try and play tweeners instead of full heels like they were at the beginning. They should have played Orton off as the corporate champion who can't be beaten with the combination of his own skills and help from The Authority, but instead they have made them seem almost annoyed at Orton at times, and just shown Orton to cry about needing their help. The pay off in the end should have been a face(most likely Bryan) finally overcoming the odds to take the title off of him. Now IMO whenever someone takes the belt off of Orton there will be very little emotion to it at all.
Orton has been booked like crap, but honestly, Orton has been doing fine with the title. Aside from Bryan, I can't honestly think of anyone at this point who should be holding it.
You make a guy champion (and then unified champion) and also make him the guy who can't beat Bryan, who admits he can't beat Bryan, who needs the entire weight and force of WWE (in the form of the authority) to even hold onto it because of the threat of Bryan ... what do you expect?
I never liked Orton, ever, and I'm not happy with the way WWE is handling Bryan lately, but it seems clear to me that the push of Bryan came at Orton's expense.
the main problem are his oponents he has defended and defeated all of them so many times in the past its just Umbearable Cena? check Show? check Batista? Mother freaking Check hes been beating or being defeated by this ass clowns since 2005 of course after 9 years people are gonna get tired.
He instead should have Feuded with Cody and Goldust leading to a triple threat match where The brothers so focused in the tittle that they themselves Cause Orton to win leading to them breaking up after Losing their Titles and later the rematch.
Or feud with Punk whon he has never Feuded ever since Punk Became the voice of the voiceless.
Or end his bussines with Bryan in straight fight with no bullshit endings like their street Fight a few mothns back.
Fresh Feuds and good Heel work would have made Ortons reign great.
He could have even fought Rollins in a Tittle Match and even if rollins is defeated it would Show some Foreshadowing to how good a face rollins would be.
The thing Orton could be the face of is phillips colon health
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