10 Most Overpaid WWE Stars Of 2017
4. Randy Orton
Randy Orton has amassed an obscene number of WWE/World Heavyweight Championship reigns, a deadening number of WWE main events, and is marketed as something of a living legend. It stands to reason, then, that the man has long since sailed well past the seven-figure mark (to the apparent tune of $1.5M) and into the luxury traveller's club.
Is he worth it? Notwithstanding the fact that WWE can easily afford it, it's tempting to receive that (realistic) figure with some gall. Randy Orton was a major fixture of WrestleMania season, nominally earning his numbers - but in reality, the gloss of the WWE Heavyweight Title picture, hardly the show's feature attraction, coated the paint-by-numbers year he experienced elsewhere. Ultimately, Bray Wyatt didn't benefit from the rub, and once the irredeemable Jinder Mahal programme ground to a halt, the Viper resumed his role as midcard inconvenience.
With too much currency and value to remotely consider letting go, yet profoundly overexposed to what is arguably an unprecedented extent, there's little of anything for Orton to actually do in WWE anymore.
It shows in both reactions and performances, the latter of which are firmly in the category of forgettable - and too often phoned-in.