Why is Randy Orton not a Top Player?

**Taker it Easy** · 05-19-2012, 11:29 AM

Randy is a man that has often come up in irl wrestling discussions.

There are different types of wrestlers / characters. Lets focus on two types right now...

1.)There are the Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels types who are a personified version of their natural self.
2.) There are others that come off more like a gimmick where a worker learns how to use and work the gimmick like The Undertaker and Randy.

Why does Randy fall into the latter? Because he is a cold and less than relatable character. Randy has not been able to evolve his character into a new direction. He has maximized any efficiency of his current approach yet that will not allow him to transcend to every fan or global stardom because it is less than easy to be empathetic with his character.

Orton does not openly put himself into the character. It may be a fundamental flaw of his psyche, in real life, that he may be unable to be vulnerable on a personal basis and vulnerability communicates to us that we are one.

If a fan has yet to experience a character as being true vulnerable, something that generates from the person behind the character, then a fan is less than likely to be able to attach his or her heart to that character. Thus Randy is stuck in a stale like climate.

He can succeed in this climate yet he may not reach such status like that of Austin or Michaels.

Randy must learn how to be himself and then be himself as a wrestling character. It is likely that he is not 'the center of the room / party' when he is around, farther than any superficial aspects that business may create for him.

So Randy is doing well and is having success yet it is fractional compared to what he can achieve when in full harmony with himself. As of now Randy is on a path to becoming a franchise unto himself yet that is something different from Austin type of success. Randy's success is without pomp and circumstance, it is a dry yet powerful success. Cold, emotionless and unattached. He is giving what he can give yet it is mostly physical.

Randy Orton is young and there is hope that he will learn much prior to finishing his career. So who knows where Randy will go or how big he may become. He was raised as the Yang to John Cena's Yin so perhaps Randy will some day, eventually, fulfill the greatest roles of them all.

-Cheers
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05-19-2012, 11:29 AM	#20
Taker it Easy Ser Taker Maplesap Posts: 502	Randy is a man that has often come up in irl wrestling discussions. There are different types of wrestlers / characters. Lets focus on two types right now... 1.)There are the Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels types who are a personified version of their natural self. 2.) There are others that come off more like a gimmick where a worker learns how to use and work the gimmick like The Undertaker and Randy. Why does Randy fall into the latter? Because he is a cold and less than relatable character. Randy has not been able to evolve his character into a new direction. He has maximized any efficiency of his current approach yet that will not allow him to transcend to every fan or global stardom because it is less than easy to be empathetic with his character. Orton does not openly put himself into the character. It may be a fundamental flaw of his psyche, in real life, that he may be unable to be vulnerable on a personal basis and vulnerability communicates to us that we are one. If a fan has yet to experience a character as being true vulnerable, something that generates from the person behind the character, then a fan is less than likely to be able to attach his or her heart to that character. Thus Randy is stuck in a stale like climate. He can succeed in this climate yet he may not reach such status like that of Austin or Michaels. Randy must learn how to be himself and then be himself as a wrestling character. It is likely that he is not 'the center of the room / party' when he is around, farther than any superficial aspects that business may create for him. So Randy is doing well and is having success yet it is fractional compared to what he can achieve when in full harmony with himself. As of now Randy is on a path to becoming a franchise unto himself yet that is something different from Austin type of success. Randy's success is without pomp and circumstance, it is a dry yet powerful success. Cold, emotionless and unattached. He is giving what he can give yet it is mostly physical. Randy Orton is young and there is hope that he will learn much prior to finishing his career. So who knows where Randy will go or how big he may become. He was raised as the Yang to John Cena's Yin so perhaps Randy will some day, eventually, fulfill the greatest roles of them all. -Cheers Taker it Easy and listen to those voices