Apparently Randy Orton was against the idea of taking the World title off of Christian just days after Edge's retirement. Him, Edge, and Christian tried to plead with Vince to let the title change happen at a later date and let Christian enjoy being a world champ for a while. Instead Vince wasn't willing to budge and Christian only had 2 days as champ.
Got revealed during the recent episode of Edge & Christian podcast show with Orton as the guest.
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Originally Posted by Highlight via r/SquaredCircle
As far as the famous 2011 feud Orton had with Christian goes, that was set in stone the night Christian beat Alberto for the title. Vince was going to tell him the situation going forward beforehand, but Edge convinced him to let Christian enjoy the moment first. Christian says Vince reasoned that since Smackdown was starting fresh at the time, he needed them as the top guys to keep the ship afloat until Summerslam. Orton tried to insist that Christian keep the title longer and didn't want to cut his moment off so fast, Christian wanted to make this known since some speculated at the time that politics where involved. In a classic Vince move, they were going to change their minds about Summerslam and crown Mark Henry then instead. Both guys argued against it with Vince and got their way in the end.
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