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If anyone wants they can look back at posts from before the face turn, and basically without patting myslef on the back, I called this one spot on.
Orton has nothing that fans can get behind, no real catchphrases (aside from RKO, which isn't really a ctahcphrase), and the booking has given the fans no real reason to cheer for him.
They totally dropped the ball. If they wanted him to be a face, he shouldn't have won the title from Benoit. They should have had him chase the title with the backstory being that Orton needs to win the title at Mania in order to beomce the youngest champ of all time. Along with the Evoolution storyline.
Or, the more profitable option would have been to keep him as a heel, and build him up as a heel champ with wins over guys like Benoit, Jericho, Edge and HBK.
I have no confiidence that they will book him the right way for the next 6 months in order to make him a legit #1 babyface. I know the ay HHH likes to be booked and by the time Mania rolls around Orton will have done so many JOBs on TV and will have been beaten down so many times, nobody will care about him, just like all the other faces before him.
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