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Originally Posted by Lara Emily
While not the biggest Orton fan he's hardly a no name.
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Actually, unless you've been tuning in for the last 1-2 months, he really is.
6-months ago or so (or what seems like 6-months ago) he was brand new. A month ago, he was a mid-carder in a stable dominated by HHH and Flair.
So, you're right - he's a midcarder until suddenly he is bigger than Benoit and Edge?
Makes no sense.
As I said before, he's virtually a no-name compared to many of the names on the card. And I won't pay to watch no-names fight a main event. Just my own personal thing -- I just don't care about HHH vs. Orton. In fact, I've asked my friends who like wrestling, and none of THEM care about HHH vs. Orton. We may only number about a dozen, but there are a dozen fans that haven't even bothered watching RAW for the past month because the feud was boring as all hell.
BTW, we've been watching wrestling since the mid 80's individual, and as a group since about '97. But we've never taken a month off a franchise until WWE bought WCW and ECW. Now, we're so bored of WWE, we take months off at a time.
We do watch TNA when we can, but the timing is off for most of us (3:00 pm EST).
But, eh. You, or whomever else, can argue Orton is a big name, worthy of respect and awe. And WWE can argue the same thing. And then we can look at the buy-rates, and we'll see just how well Orton draws...
And I'm sorry, but Orton's no Duane Johnson. I don't know WHO convinced Vince of this, but the Rock has more charisma in his left buttock than Orton has in his entire body. That's just the way it is. Unless Orton's improved substantially in the past month, then I find his interviews wooden and...sort of stupid.
But eh.