Ranking Every Randy Orton WrestleMania Match - From Worst To Best

With the status of Randy Orton’s on-again, off-again WWE Championship shot once again swinging back to on-again, that means he will indeed be challenging Bray Wyatt for the title in one of the most prominent matches on the WrestleMania 33 card.

Not that Orton’s any stranger to high-profile matches at the show. Over the course of a 15-year main roster career, he’s just about done it all on the company’s biggest stage.

In his very first WrestleMania outing, he shared the ring with a pair of Hall of Famers, and since then he’s both entered and left the event as champion, closed out the show on multiple occasions, and featured in four world title matches along the way.

This year, when four becomes five, the resultant match and a possible victory may well rank as one of his best WrestleMania moments yet. But before we see him stick yet another feather in his WrestleMania cap, let’s take a stab at ranking each of Randy Orton’s WrestleMania matches—beginning with the most disappointing of the lot.

Main event matches don’t get much bigger than Triple H vs. Randy Orton for the WWE Championship at the 25th anniversary of WrestleMania. Factor in an awesome build that saw Triple H break into Orton’s home, before Orton retaliated by kissing Triple H’s unconscious wife, and the hype could hardly have been greater for this one.

Unfortunately, the eventual match fell totally flat.

Minutes before the bell rang, a late stipulation was added to the mix, ruling that Triple H would lose his title if he ended up getting disqualified. To live up to that pre-match build, though, the match really needed a no-DQ stipulation of some sort.

Instead, a lacklustre match began in unusual fashion, with both men hitting their finishers early on, and the action just never took off from there.

Admittedly it wasn’t helped by the fact that earlier in the evening, Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker had already stolen the show with arguably the greatest match in WrestleMania history, but either way, given all the promise heading into this match, this one failed to deliver in a big way.