10 Main Eventers Who SUCKED At Great Moves (But Did Them Anyway)
2. Randy Orton - Lou Thesz Press
Perhaps picking on Randy Orton's almost-impressive indifference at drastically improving his act is plucking at low-hanging fruit in 2018. When those very same plums formed a key part of his offence, it was hard to remember a time when he was actually pushing other things forward beyond his crotch into an opponent's face.
Stone Cold Steve Austin brought Lou Thesz' flying tackle back to prominence in the late-1990s along with Jim Ross' inch-perfect soundtrack of 'The Rattlesnake's "fist and fire", but Orton's re-tooling of it a decade later lacked every bit of spark the notoriously snug Austin' threw into it.
Rather than being flattened by a charging redneck, Orton's victims had to fall back onto their own necks when faced with his nether regions. It was as if his 'midsection' was as powerful as Joey Ryan's would later become, despite Orton's noted disdain for just about everything to do with independent wrestling.