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Originally Posted by legendkiller
As far as Orton's character is concerned he doeasn't neccessarily have to change his character much. Did the Rock change hsi character when he turned face? No, he still acted like a cocky, arrogant asshole but he justed started acting like a cocky, arrogant asshole to the heels and he still didn't respect many of the faces.
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The big difference with Rock was that he had a bunch of catchphrases over as a heel and was much better in doing promos than Orton currently is. I mean what catchphrase does Orton have? All he really has is the Legend Killer deal, and yeah that could work for guys like Flair and HHH, but how does he get over in a promo against a guy like Batista or Edge for example?
The other thing Orton does in promos a lot is insult the audience, well no matter how many shades of grey they are, a babyface is not going to get on the mic and go "all you guys over 24 are losers", especially when most of their audience is over that age.
So like I said, Rock had his promos set up as a heel, and they were getting cheered, I haven't seen Orton's promos really get cheered. I think they would have been smarter to keep him heel for at least a few months so he can establish some new catchphrases and a style for his promos that could translate to being a babyface.
The way it is now, its almost like he's starting all over. It might work, I know Ive ripped this A LOT, but I do think it could work, I just feel they've made things so much harder on themselves. And I dont think its automatic that the people will get behind him en masse, but we'll see on Monday onwards.