10 Most DEMENTED Wrestling Fantasy Booking Ideas Found Online

8. The Poetry Of Randy Orton's 'Legend Killer' Run

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Seven years ago, a Reddit user mapped out the return of an old Randy Orton gimmick: The Legend Killer.

This seemed a bit redundant. The Legend Killer act was a creative vehicle to get him over as an unconscionable heel prodigy who wanted to take the fast-track to stardom, and he was well established as a top star by 2016. To hardcore WWE fans, he was a living legend. He was 14 years and multiple World title reigns into his career seven years prior.

But let's hear them out.

Orton beats Brock Lesnar. He also taps out John Cena, and quickly, despite never being a technical wrestler and never having adopted a submission finisher that fans can anticipate or take seriously. He defeats yet more legends in open challenges on Raw and even beats the Undertaker at the Royal Rumble. Basically, Orton has worked three WrestleMania main events over the span of a few months.

Orton is so dominant that Vince McMahon himself has to congratulate him on Raw for essentially completing WWE. Orton disagrees. There's one more legend left, he says, and a Hell In A Cell match is set - against an unnamed opponent - at WrestleMania.

At the Show of Shows, Orton makes his entrance. He scales the structure. Realising that he is in fact the last legend, he...

...RKOs himself off Hell In A Cell.

This is absolutely piss funny. It completely elasticises the concept of logic so that it becomes a paradox that makes sense and no sense, all at the same time.

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