10 Things We Learned From WWE SmackDown (June 6)
3. Contender?
Randy Orton was again reduced to interview fodder for the second consecutive week, despite the angle for his WWE Title rematch being built around 'The Viper's insistence that actions speak louder than words.
It's lucky for him that when it comes to his RKO, that rings true, because yet again he spoke at length and still managed to say nothing.
The gist was, he's going to get his title back from Jinder Mahal at Money In The Bank in front of his hometown St Louis crowd. Only, almost nobody believes him.
The Jinder Mahal experiment is still incredibly new, and whilst much of the novelty appears to have worn off based on how he's been booked on television since his victory, there's multiple strands of evidence that suggest he may be actually starting to get over that go beyond the aforementioned favourable crowd reactions that came during his match with Mojo Rawley.
Sadly for Randy, the programme is already dead meat. Rather than following the traditional WWE roadmap, the story only had steam with Jinder on the chase. With Mahal's unlikely ascent already complete, Orton is yesterday's news, and will need a wholesale reboot following what will most likely be yet another defeat in two weeks.