10 WWE Wrestlers Randy Orton Has Never Faced One-On-One
Dream matches or just common-sense bouts that never materialized over 20 years.
WWE has gone all-in on celebrating Randy Orton’s 20th anniversary with the company recently, unveiling lists, compilations and interviews on their various channels, dedicating the opening segment on this week’s Raw to him, and turning the main event into the Viper’s greatest hits.
And really, Orton is something of a unicorn in today’s WWE – a main-event superstar who has achieved everything there is to accomplish in the company, but never leaving for bigger and better things, or stepping away for an extended period of time. Contemporaries like John Cena and Batista departed for Hollywood. Kurt Angle went to TNA. Others were released over time or retired. And The Miz... well, to call him a main-event superstar would be... inaccurate.
But Orton has been a consistent presence on WWE programming for two decades, and as a result, he’s had thousands of matches against nearly every imaginable superstar. You could practically pick any major name who overlapped with Randy and find that they’ve had a match against each other.
However, there are a handful of notable wrestlers who have never stood opposite Orton in a one-on-one match. We’re talking Hall-of-Famers, legends and just long-tenured superstars who you would have assumed would have faced the Apex Predator by now.
Here’s a look at 10 well-know WWE wrestlers who have never gone one-on-one against Orton.
Let’s get to it…
10. JBL
John “Bradshaw” Layfield was a constant presence on WWE TV throughout
the 2000s, appearing first as part of the APA before garnering a main event
push and a world title reign in 2004-05. He would hang it up in 2009 at
WrestleMania 25.
Despite being around for Randy Orton’s formative years in WWE, the two never hooked up in a singles match. They actually teamed up quite a few times through the years, including a handful of matches in 2008. But they also competed against each other in two fatal four-way elimination matches that year; one for the WWE Championship, and one to be #1 contender.
Still, the notion that the two never wrestled each other – not while both were midcarders in the early 2000s, or when they were both main-event stars – is just wild. Wrap your head around WWE never pairing these two up for a bout.