7 Awesome Wrestling Moments That Put Randy Orton On The Map

OK, forget the fact that Austin had brought the curtain down on his in-ring career more than six months earlier, and that it was only a matter of weeks before the Texas Rattlesnake was back on Raw, repackaged as a quad-driving "sheriff" (with seemingly all the power of a regular ol' co-general manager). For a short while, at least, it really did seem as though Randy Orton had taken Stone Cold off our screens for good.

RKO was the sole survivor of the Eric Bischoff-led team which won the Monday night power struggle at Survivor Series 2003 and, in turn, ostensibly ended Austin's long association with WWE.

Whilst he owed much of that to an interfering Batista, however you spin it, this was a pretty impressive feather in the 23-year-old's cap.