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The new era babyface; rufusing to fight! Thats pretty tough to get behind.
Anyway, Orton's main schtick as far as I can tell in terms of promos is that he acts like he's better than the audience, and as such, especially those of us who are older than him (makes me sad) hate him for being so successful. But as a face you just cant do that. You cant go to an arena and say "You guys are pathetic, you guys suck, you guys are unworthy of me" and expect people to get behind you. So he has to change. Unlike guys like Rock, Austin and Cena he doesn't have a schtick that I think people will pop for, and therefore I see him as a bland babyface. Who knows he might have something lined up to get over in promos, but I haven't seen it yet.
In terms of bad booking, the turn itself wasn't all that bad (I would have waited at least a few months), it was that they did it so quick and also that they booked Randy to act like a heel at the beginning of the show. So now he's ripped the fans, and it'll be tough to be a babyface and on top of that he's out of the ultra cool top faction. Its kinda like when they used to kick guys out of the NWO, generally getting kicked out was a negative thing to the fans and they didn't become huge faces out of it. So thats why I see this as a mistake.
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