10 WWE Romances You Totally Don't Remember
9. Randy Orton & Kelly Kelly
The above segment should tell you everything you need to know about how the company viewed women before they whitewashed their entire history with the Women's Evolution.
Kelly Kelly - by 2008 a regular wrestler in the Divas division - was reduced to little more than a one night stand for Randy Orton thanks to some excruciating acting and exposition that didn't tie into either of their stories at the time. Despite being the wronged party following their tryst, Kelly was tacitly cast as the whining anchor around 'The Legend Killer's neck as he attempted to reclaim Raw's World Heavyweight Championship.
Having previously found herself at the mercy of Kane in segments that revealed what she believed was a burgeoning love affair with Orton (she'd rushed out on a Monday Night Raw main event to go to his hotel), Kelly's plight was laid out by Randy himself in a scorching retort to her requests for, at least, a reply to her texts.
Orton spewed out his response; "it was one night Kelly, and thankfully it wasn't all that memorable. I used you. You are pathetic." The hand of the author felt alarmingly close by.