10 Reasons Why Randy Orton Is Everything Wrong With WWE

10. He Really Can't Put Over Young Talent

After seven years on WWE's main roster, 2009 saw Randy Orton paired with a quartet of new talents (Cody Rhodes, Ted DiBiase, Jr., Manu Anoai and Sim Snuka) as heel stable The Legacy. The idea was that this group was intended to serve the same purpose as Evolution did for Orton and Batista five years prior. Sadly, the rub of being affiliated with Orton was not the same as the rub of being with Triple H and Ric Flair, so the boost for the careers for all four wrestlers mentioned was negligible at-best. Maybe this isn't so much of a problem with Orton as it is with creative, but Orton in the role of "veteran leader" just isn't something that he's organically engineered to be great at, thus he failed. Part of the issue in 2015 in WWE is that there's a crop of guys who were in the company between 2000-2010 who either failed at getting over or left the company entirely due, in large part to angst with not catching on, or having creative fumble their careers. In Orton being one of the very few to somehow make it to the top in the midst of what's largely been a mess insofar as talents not getting over, he's alone and leaned on as a performer entirely too much. In failing at getting over young talent, Randy Orton is synonymous with what's wrong with WWE.