10 Worst WWE Wrestlers Of 2019
4. Randy Orton
In 2019, Randy Orton, once among WWE's best performers, lived down to a Bruce Prichard-ism. Hilarious on social media and scathing in his assessment of AJ Styles - "In 2005, AJ was down in Florida getting a tan with Dixie Carter while I was here facing the Undertaker at WrestleMania" - Orton was on fire as a personality.
And then the bell rang.
And when that bell rang, tedium and silence followed. It is law to state that everything Randy Orton does "makes sense", as if the psychology prescribed by WWE in 1984 is a classic text to study, but holy hell was it profoundly boring. That match against AJ Styles drew only chants of "We can't see," as entire sections were blinded not by star power but rather the punishing lights of WWE's obnoxious production set-up. Orton shifted into a programme with Kofi Kingston, in a bid to revisit their 2009 rivalry, and Orton took the brief all too literally by reviving also the glacial, methodical pace of a bygone time. Before this, he conspired to work a nothing mini-series with Rey Mysterio Wikipedia had to remind me of.
In 2019, Randy Orton was tasked with getting people over as a living 'Legend' character, and he couldn't see 2015 John Cena.