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Originally Posted by Average Joe
While the push may be the same, Orton is different from Lesnar in the fact that Orton came onto Raw in January 2003 (from what I remember, anyway. He came in as part of Evolution which started at that time), and didn't get the monster push until now, a time span of about 19 months, possibly more if he was there before. Lesnar came out of OVW in March 2002, and won the title in August 2002.
While you can say the circumstances of their title wins are similar, you can't say it was exactly the same. Lesnar didn't have a 9 month IC Title reign, and was in WWE for a lot less time than Orton. I'm sure there are more differences besides that.
Anyways, I'm looking forward to Raw, and Orton as the champion. Makes me wonder what feud WWE has lined up for him.
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True true. I think Orton will be fine. But I believe he actually debuted on Smackdown of 02, around the same time as Cena. They were just promoting him as the rookie 3rd generation superstar. He didn't really do much of anything there.
Then in the late fall/early winter he moved to RAW. That's how I remember it.