7 Reasons Why Evolution Is WWE's Best Stable Ever

3. Randy Orton Became The Youngest World Champion Ever

The rise of Randy Orton is one of the best parts of Evolution because when he started with the group in January 2003 he was still 22 years old. In less than two years he became the youngest World Heavyweight Champion in history at the age of 24 and that's a record that he still holds. It may never be broken simply because it's very rare for anybody to pushed to that level at such a young age. Orton had a lot of success as a midcard wrestler on the rise in the Evolution stable. He was the sole survivor in a tremendous Survivor Series match in late 2003. In 2004, he got the winning pinfall at WrestleMania 20 as Evolution took on The Rock & Mick Foley and then he beat Foley in an awesome Hardcore Match at Backlash. All of that led to his eventual World Title win at SummerSlam although the babyface turn was ill-advised. The idea behind pushing Orton was that he could be somebody that WWE would build around in the future. Orton has certainly taken some missteps along the way from behavioral issues to suspensions. However, when you look at it in the big picture it's clear that he has developed into the main event player that they groomed him to be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwKlgAtF44k Orton deserves a lot of credit for the great work he did in terms of making Evolution the best stable in WWE history and so does management for believing in him as much as they did. They picked the right guy at the right time. It worked.