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Why is there heat on Randy Orton?

WrestleZone reports that there is backstage heat on Randy Orton from other wrestlers for his "crowd killing" style during his house show matches with Roman Reigns over the weekend. The matches were said to have been received very negatively by the live audiences as well as backstage.

Some WWE wrestlers, still frustrated with a drop in payoffs and the late WrestleMania payment, are concerned that Orton may be slowing down Reigns' rise to the company's top babyface. The belief among those concerned wrestlers backstage is that John Cena can't carry the entire load and Daniel Bryan remains a question mark due to injuries, so a new babyface star like Reigns is badly needed with hopes that that would improve business and benefit everyone down the card.
Read more at http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/n...Reigns-At-House-Shows.htm#JRFUPSoUKT852y0a.99
 

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We'll see...Blandy was set up to be his jobber anyway. By Summerslam at least.

And fans don't really see Reigns as boring. That's just a Internet thing. He has never got boring chants like Blandy has gotten over the last 8 years.

His one on one match with Bray almost got to that point. Imagine when he's off the multi man match leash and has to face guys like Khali
 

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Well see..that's assuming in a hypothetical. Females like the boy and males haven't turned on him yet. He'll be in trouble with fans if he faces Rock or seems to get pushed ahead of Bryan but that's down the road. He's just a upper midcarder who wins a lot these days. It's Brey who needs to get fans in his matches..not Roman. Harper is getting cheered in matches over his workrate. We'll see.
 

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Reigns is pretty average in every aspect, so he needs someone to carry him. If their styles don't mesh, it's pretty stupid to blame Orton for that.

More of some IWC nerd making stuff up to feed into the 'sheets.

Yep. Even on paper this seems like a terrible matchup. Roman's limited moveset + Orton's slow/deliberate work style doesn't mesh at all.
 

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Geez... they probably just had a bad couple of matches

Their non-match brawls they've had on TV have been pretty entertaining to watch :manny:
 

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I could've stopped there.

That said though, they probably DONT put on great matches. In the same way that orton/sheamus and orton/big show stink up the place, but Orton / cena and orton/punk don't. He WORKS HEEL. Orton doesn't budge on that and doesn't TRY to impress the crowd when he's a heel because he's a purist and thats not what heels do. As a babyface crowd back him. As a heel its up to the other guy and Reigns doesn't do that in match yet.
 

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I can't blame Randy on this. If you remember back when shield was feuding with evolution, Randy & Roman had a 1 on 1, and I mentioned it it that Raw thread. If not for the DQ finish roman was about 3 minutes away from being exposed. Blandy was wrestling circles around Roman in what ended up proving he ain't ready for the spot their giving him.
 

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Bray wyatt had the entire mania crowd singing along vs John cena and bray was the heel but bray needs to get the crowd involved :laff:

Orton is boring at times only when he isn't facing someone whose style meshes. nikkas talking like that voices run he had didn't have fans cheering ro religiously and going insane when he was fukking up the McMahon and fondling children
 
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