6 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 36 (Part 2)

5. RKO Outta Nowhere

Edge Randy Orton
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While the match itself was a long, plodding affair, we’ve got to pay tribute to one aspect of the Last Man Standing match… Randy Orton’s RKO to open things.

Edge entered the ring first and was awaiting Orton, when a shadowy figure sprung into the camera’s view and hit an RKO on the Rated-R Superstar. Replays then showed Orton disguised as a ringside cameraman who put his camera down, slid into the ring and nailed Edge.

It was a clever piece of booking and should have set the tone for a creative match to settle the blood feud, but alas. Still, this was a pretty cool moment.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.