8 Bad In-Ring Habits That Randy Orton Needs To Change

The Apex Predator has a full wrinkles in his game.

Alongside John Cena, Randy Orton has been one of the most enduring WWE superstars of the last decade but, unlike the pastel-covered, child-inspiring leader of the Cenation, he occasionally flips out and kicks someone in the head. That's nice. Throughout his 13 years wrestling with the company (not counting his time in OVW) he's become a 12-time world champion, the 1st ever WWE World Heavyweight Champion, the youngest ever World Heavyweight Champion at just 24 years old and he's been in more than enough PPV main events to guarantee a Hall Of Fame induction in the future. But Randy isn't immune from the ire of the fans. In the last few years, he's proven that he can't carry the fans' interest alone. In terms of building anticipation for bouts, he's become quite limited, especially when placed in matches with similarly uninspiring talents like Batista, Big Show, Sheamus or John Cena. Why is this the case? Has he been overexposed over the years, or perhaps it's because he's had a run of uninspired feuds? Perhaps it's because he's gone through long slumps of lacklustre promos? All of these are factors, but perhaps most harmful of all are his in-ring bad habits. The word overrated gets thrown around a lot by the IWC when talking about Randall, and for the most part it's misused. He's competent in the ring, often more so, but he has more than a few aspects of his in-ring technique that he could work on, such as:
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