[dramatic music]
- Being a bad guy kind of comes easy.
It's like second nature for me.
[crowd chanting "Randy"]
Just knowing how to get under people's skin.
There's a way that I get into the zone.
And a lot times, it meant
bending over and holding my breath
and pushing all the blood into my face and...
[grunting]
Ah, mother[bleep], come on!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then I got it.
And then I got it, and I can [bleep] just do
what I need to do
and I can [bleep] pull
whatever [bleep] emotion I need to [bleep] pull
out of the audience,
because I feel it.
And when you look into my eyes,
you can tell that I feel it.
[dramatic music]
* *
- Excuse me, uh--
- Who the hell are you interrupting me?
Ah, that's right,
you're, uh, you're Randy Orton.
narrator: He is known as The Viper,
The Legend Killer.
- Oh! [chuckles]
narrator: Sometimes he strikes out of nowhere.
- Whoa!
narrator: Other times, he mercilessly
toys with his prey.
- The Viper coiled, ready to strike.
- He is the Apex Predator! [rattle shakes]
Randy Orton!
- Oh, yeah! I love Randy Orton.
Dudes hate Randy Orton.
Every guy I've ever dated hates Randy Orton.
I don't know if it's just pure jealousy.
- He has the looks. He has the body.
He has the physique. He has the skill.
- He exudes confidence in every step that he takes.
He relishes the ability
to inflict damage and human suffering.
So he's not just after a championship.
He wants to make his opponent's life miserable.
[crowd shouting]
[crowd chanting "Randy"]
- I hate using the word because I don't really--but conniving.
He's a smarmy, slimy.
He's the kind of bad guy
that it's more mental
than it is physical.
- There's almost like, a sadistic side of it,
but it's almost like I-- he might be crazy for real.
- Come on, catch me.
- This match here is on a five count.
- You want to kick me? - Hey!
- Come on, come on. - Go to your corner.
- Come on, gotta kick me. Come on.
- He just has a way of presenting like crazy or scary.
And it's the way he kind of looks angry,
but he's also smiling
'cause he's enjoying what he's doing
when he's usually lighting somebody on fire
or hurting somebody.
- With Randy, it's just this constant
viper movement of a snake in the grass.
And when you see his eyes lock on you,
you feel like you've already been caught
or you've already been bitten. [rattle shakes]
- Shot to the head. Oh, no.
Oh! [snake hisses]
- Randy Orton's enjoying every second of this.
- Yes, yes, we have arrived.
- You'd love to hate him. I loved to love him personally.
The standing up. The...
[groans] The whole nine.
Like, it's just a person who doesn't look like
the rest of us mere mortals walking on this planet.
He executes. He dominates.
He takes out big names left and right.
- Mick Foley, Harley Race, Goldust,
Rowdy Roddy Piper,
hell, even The Fabulous Moolah.
- This woman is a legend.
And by the way, Randy Orton...
Legend Killer.
- What? - What--oh, my God.
Oh, I don't believe he just did that.
- Beyond the villain, Randy Orton
the--the technician is awesome.
- Randy Orton may be the man around here
sooner than we think.
- Maybe more than any other superstar
of the last 20 years,
he just is fluid.
From that DDT off the second rope,
punches, dropkick.
- The punt kick. - The punt.
- And of course the RKO.
- Oh, my God. [groans]
Randy Orton with an RKO to The Undertaker.
- RKO, "Randy knock out."
It looks perfect. The name is perfect.
It is literally the perfect finishing move.
- Bam, RKO.
RKO by Randy Orton.
- I think the thing about the RKO that's fire
is that it's a leap,
but also it becomes like a worldwide meme.
Like people getting RKO'd into pools and [bleep] like that.
- We're back live on Saturday Night "Raw."
- Watch out, watch out, watch out!
Oh, no. [screams]
- Baby, listen to that. - Skull crusher.
- He got it. He got it.
Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out!
- RKO is one of the greatest finishing maneuvers
in the world of sports entertainment.
He even hit Hulk Hogan with an RKO on a car.
- [groans] - [groans]
- It was awesome. The crowd goes crazy.
They love an RKO.
narrator: Randy Orton is an imposing figure,
intensely focused,
a superior athlete,
always dangerous...
- [groans] - Not again.
- And he kicked to the skull.
narrator: And incapable of showing empathy.
- The Viper is in the driver's seat right now.
You can tell by the smirk on his face.
narrator: But how did he get so malicious?
Is Orton's brand of evil innate or learned?
[soft music]
- As a kid, you know,
I didn't have a lot of confidence.
I was definitely insecure.
* *
I was not the kid that had a bunch of friends.
I kind of just never really found
that clique of people that I could call friends.
- Randy was pretty quiet and respectful.
He got into some mischief, you know, but all kids do.
You know, nothing where they'd want to throw him in jail
or anything, but you know, just, you know,
he was just a kid-- just a regular kid.
* *
- I was such an insecure kid.
I think I was a quiet kid.
Got picked on, bullied.
* *
Like, it was bad. [bell rings]
- I could see Randy getting bullied as a child
and then taking all that in, and it does affect you.
And sometimes that just means
you're gonna grow up and be a bully yourself.
And sometimes that means you can focus
all those terrible things that have happened to you
or the bad days that you've had.
It makes you jealous and angry,
and that is really hard.
- He started working out in the gym in the basement.
He was probably nine or ten years old.
And then he wrestled all through school.
- [indistinct speech]
Randy Orton. [cheers and applause]
- I was definitely bullied until, you know,
I'd say halfway through my high school career.
And that's only because
I shot up, you know, half a foot,
and all of a sudden I, you know, had muscles
and was taller than everybody else.
- Part of what happens when you're bullied as a child
is you don't have power.
You feel helpless.
You can't fight back. You can't get even.
You have to stuff that anger down.
It's almost like a pot of boiling water,
and the lid is blowing off,
and you just keep holding it down
and holding it down and holding it down.
And then one day, you feel ready,
and you pull the top off of that pot,
and you let the anger go.
And then comes the day
when you are big and you are strong
and you can unleash that anger
and get the revenge that you feel like you deserve.
- RKO, RKO, RKO, RKO!
narrator: Randy Orton is a third-generation superstar
following in the footsteps of his grandfather,
Bob Orton, Sr., and father, Cowboy Bob Orton.
- Considered by many in the wrestling fraternity
to be one of the greats.
- Well, I was a cowboy,
a rough and tumble guy that knew how to wrestle.
I was always pretty rugged in the ring,
and I didn't take any gruff from anybody.
Lot of folks tried to give me some,
but I put an end to that pretty quick.
- Two, three... - Orton...
- I was very dislikable. [laughs]
God, it felt good.
- I'm sure his dad didn't teach him that way.
- I'm sure he didn't.
- I got a very good knowledge of wrestling itself
from watching my dad.
Well, I learned crowd psychology from Dad.
- One of the best things people can watch is the superstars.
- I agree with that, Dad.
I'd like to prove to everybody in our country
that I am an athlete that's uncomparable.
- Sent for the ride.
Oh, nailed him right in the lower abdomen.
- Growing up, you know,
I knew I had this famous father that was on TV.
And I'd go home,
and depending on what territory he was wrestling in
or whether or not he was with the WWE at the time,
you know, I would watch my father.
And from my earliest memory of watching my dad,
it was, like, just what my dad did for a living.
Just when my dad goes to work,
sometimes he's in Japan for a month
before he comes home.
It wasn't like this special to do
that my dad was this famous professional wrestler.
It was work.
It was what he did to put food on the table.
- There were times we were on the road 100 days in a row.
That's just, you know, what we did back then.
When Randy was in school,
I wouldn't get to see him at all.
From the time he was maybe four, five years old
until the time he was, oh, 10 or 11,
I probably got to see him--
gosh, you know, this is gonna sound horrible,
but, maybe 10, 12 days a year?
- My mom would kind of,
just, speak on how hard it was on your family.
How hard it was on you, the individual
that was traveling the world nonstop
with limited dates off,
missing birthdays and holidays all the time.
She saw that,
and she didn't want that for me.
narrator: Randy chose his own path.
One that led to 13 weeks of hell.
* *
narrator: Turning away from his family's legacy.
Randy sought a new path for his life.
- I definitely didn't want to go to college.
In my case, I chose the Marine Corps.
I went through--I believe it was 12 or 13 weeks of hell,
USMC boot camp.
Boot camp sucked.
The atmosphere that I was put in
had a lot of negative aspects of it
that I'll never go into in public,
but I was seeing things that I didn't want to deal with
and I didn't sign up for,
so I left.
[dramatic music]
I went AWOL for about 82 days.
I turned myself in, and I ended up serving--
I think I was sentenced 45 days
to the Camp Pendleton Base Brig, a military prison.
- Yeah, he was gung ho to go to the service,
but I know that because of who he was,
I think he had to take a little bit more gruff
than some guys.
And he's always had kind of an attitude too.
I mean, it shows even now, you know, when you watch him.
He's got an attitude.
- Depending on a person's experience in the military,
some people will describe
feeling like they've lost themselves.
Like they've--they don't have an ability to control
their own thoughts or feelings or behaviors.
And I really think that that's part of
what impacted Randy Orton
that ultimately led to him building his character.
narrator: After the military, Randy returned home
with no direction and no plan for his future.
- Oh, that's when I started thinking about getting him
in the business, you know, the wrestling business.
- Randy Orton's dad, Bob Orton, Jr.,
gave me a call in the office one day and said,
"Hey, my son's 19.
"I'd really love to see
if I could get him in the developmental system."
And I said, "Great. Let me know,
"you know, when you're ready, Bob, we're ready for him."
Sight unseen.
We sent him to OVW,
which was our training facility
in Louisville, Kentucky.
And Randy was kind of a tall, skinny kid.
- I wish I could, you know, bull[bleep] everybody
and say that there was this moment where I knew
that a professional wrestler is what I was destined to be,
but I became a professional wrestler
because I didn't know what else I was gonna do.
And I figured, "Eh, let me give this a shot."
And that's probably one of the reasons why
the locker room didn't like me too much
when I showed up to OVW.
narrator: Randy joined an OVW roster
that was stacked with future WWE Hall of Famers,
including Dave Bautista and Brock Lesnar.
And he made an immediate impression on them.
- Randy Orton pressing the advantage on Johnny Spade.
[bell rings] He hammers Johnny Spade.
- I knew that I had my work cut out for me.
And, um, that's probably the hardest
I've ever worked in my entire career.
* *
- Everyone that encountered Randy
during his training period said
Randy Orton was a natural from day one.
- And from St. Louis, Missouri,
weighing in at 240 pounds, Randy Orton.
- So this is Randy Orton's debut.
I'm gonna wish the kid luck.
narrator: Randy's natural ability
earned him a spot on the main roster,
but doing too much too soon led to disaster.
[bell rings]
[cheers and applause]
- I think-- if I'm not mistaken,
I think Orton is hurt. I think he's hurt bad.
- Randy had two shoulder injuries
pretty early in his career.
And he quickly got it into his head that physically
you have more years if you can tone down the in-ring work
and learn to manipulate those cameras in the right way.
- I was injured and, by every right,
like everyone else, should've went home
for six weeks, six months, whatever
and let the shoulder heal,
but instead, they had me come back every week for TV
in a sling and do an update.
They called it the "RNN Update."
- Whoa, what is this now? We have breaking news.
Oh. - Oh, God.
- Hi, Randy Orton here with another special injury update.
I have great news to announce.
My shoulder now has 32% mobility.
That's up 2% from last week.
- He would have these "RNN" segments
where he would come out,
talk about his shoulder injury,
and while you're watching these,
you would think, "Who the hell cares, right?"
He manages to get under your skin.
- With my drive, with my athleticism,
with my commitment to all these people,
I will be back in a mere three to four months.
[crowd booing]
narrator: The "RNN Updates" were classic Orton,
proving he was a natural
at irritating anyone and everyone.
Nearly half a year after injuring his shoulder...
- To the top rope.
narrator: Randy returned to action.
[crowd booing]
narrator: But his disruptive behavior
would keep his career from taking off.
- This is starting to look [bleep] [bleep]
[bleep] [bleep] [bleep].
- You know, I think Randy, he wasn't mature enough.
- "Soon"? How long are we gonna sit here?
Seriously?
- You know, go out there and represent us.
Randy wasn't ready for that.
You know he--he was a kid.
[crowd booing]
narrator: Orton's career was suddenly floundering.
Until Triple H stepped in.
- Randy Orton,
the business is in his blood,
third generation superstar.
The man has every gift that a man can be given.
Randy Orton is the coal
that will be squeezed
into the next diamond. [cheers and applause]
narrator: Orton joined Evolution,
a new faction comprised of generational talent.
Evolution consisted of the animal and powerhouse,
Dave Bautista,
the dirtiest player in the game,
and 16-time world champion, Ric Flair,
and the self-crowned king of kings, Triple H.
- I am so blessed that those two men saw something in me.
I'll never forget that.
- That is Evolution, and I don't care who you are,
there isn't a damn person that can stop us.
- He went from being this young guy
with a lot of potential, the legend in the making,
establishing all of this credibility with Evolution
by aligning himself with Triple H and Ric Flair.
- Because I was in Evolution,
because I was in a main event storyline,
when I was firing on all cylinders,
they knew it was time.
"All right, what are we gonna do?
What are we gonna do to push this kid to the next level?"
- Oh, look at this.
[cheers and applause]
narrator: Evolution was instrumental
in helping Randy harness his potential.
But the WWE universe
still saw Orton as protected within Evolution.
- I'm a legend!
narrator: A pretty boy, smart mouthed,
third generation superstar
who would never make it on his own,
especially against the likes of a Hardcore Legend.
- Oh, God!
[cheers and applause]
- You rely on that talent and you rely on that ability
and you rely on what brought you to the dance.
And do you know what brought you to the dance, Randy?
Evolution.
* *
- I went into 2004 needing somebody
to bring me from here to here.
That somebody was Mick Foley.
narrator: The Hardcore Legend, Mick Foley,
was the opposite of Randy Orton
in every conceivable way.
He had a reputation for sacrificing himself
in order to cause maximum pain to his opponents.
Mick chose to come out of retirement
to teach Orton a lesson.
- Randy Orton, are you--
you're feeling disrespected by the fans?
Potential is a vague term,
but you see something in someone
and you know that they have just scratched the surface
of what they're capable of.
And that's what I sensed when I saw Randy on television.
And then I was, I guess... [chuckles]
a believer in myself enough that I thought I could be
that one big rivalry that boosts that character.
[crowd booing]
- There's not a lot of guys out there
that are gonna be okay with a grown man
spitting in his face.
- [groans]
I'd had a crisis of confidence
and I hadn't had a match in four years.
And then I had this amazing opportunity
to do a singles match with Randy.
I wanted it to be a transformative match for him
but I also wanted it to be,
uh, a match that I could be proud of
in case I never wrestled again.
And on that night in Edmonton, Alberta...
- [screams] Oh, my God.
- On a bed of barbed wire.
- We came up with a match that stands the test of time.
- Look at his face. Look at his back.
- Foley dumped me in a pile of thumb tacks.
- Man, this is not for the weak of heart,
I'll tell you that.
- I daresay, as good as Randy is,
he was in shock.
- [screams] Oh, my God.
Holy--just sent Randy Orton for a death ride.
- Randy Orton had the confidence
to take his character in places where most won't go.
- Oh, my God.
- That hardcore match I had,
was the toughest match I'd had at that point in my career.
- He's been pierced and punctured.
- And that showed the fans, this kid
isn't a kid anymore.
- Oh, man, across the back.
- Randy thrived in an atmosphere
where a lot of people thought
he was too handsome to thrive in.
- That was a huge moment for me because
that showed that I could hang with a legend like Mick.
- [screams]
- But not only hang,
that I could beat him.
- And oh, God. [screams]
RKO with a bat. - That did it.
- The RKO with a baseball bat.
- That did it. - And it's over.
[bell rings]
- Randy Orton has made his mark.
- People in one night
changed the way they saw that character.
It certified his toughness.
He defeated the Hardcore Legend.
narrator: Once Orton got the taste
of destroying the Hardcore Legend,
he wanted more.
Orton went on a diabolical rampage,
destroying any legend he could get his hands on.
- And another legend bites the dust.
- There were so many different legendary superstars
that you looked up to and you watched him
just putting them out for good, legit legend killing.
[bell rings]
- Man, who can stop this kid?
- I think when I was younger, I just thought about me.
I'm main eventing shows and I'm beating,
you know, multiple world champions
and be setting records and making historical moments.
- The youngest world champion in WWE history.
[cheers and applause]
- Randy did get an awful lot of stardom very quickly
because he was great.
And he wasn't ready for the stardom that he got.
It was too much, too soon.
[dramatic music]
- WWE superstars love to say that their character on camera
is kind of like their real personality
just turned all the way up to 10.
- You have been injured in your clavicle,
your arms, everywhere, you sound pretty fragile.
- Look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me,
look at me, look at me. - Just breathe.
Hey, now take it easy. - Now say it again.
Say it again, I dare you to say it again.
- Fragile. - Call me fragile.
I will headbutt your teeth through your skull.
Do you hear me?
- Okay, you hear that? You just spit on me.
- Look, Randy--Randy had every tool in the world.
I've told him that a million times.
Every tool in the world.
The only one that's gonna derail you is you.
And you're hell bent on it.
- Do you have a big TV?
- Randy, I think he was ready
to be the World Champion in the ring.
I don't think he was ready to be World Champion
outside of the ring.
- I was famous, like, world known.
And to be that young and to be that recognizable,
like, it's a lot of pressure.
Pretty much to sum it up, I was an [bleep] early on.
I let the fame get to my head.
I don't think I recognized
that I was as big a prick as I was.
[crowd chanting "Randy"]
- The fame thing, I think,
it's an interesting two-headed monster.
It is glorious. It gets you perks.
It gets you recognition, money.
It's an attention that I do think a lot of people crave,
but on the other hand,
it's got to be jarring.
[all cheering] 'Cause it's not like these are
overnight success stories for the most part.
These people have been working so hard for so long
and they're just waiting on that break.
And when that break comes,
that's not easy.
- To big money in our pockets, baby.
- Cheers.
You just have access to everything
and it's like all the sudden.
First you have nothing
and you're struggling to make your way in life.
Now you have access to whatever you want.
I don't know how a 20-year-old kid
would deal with that pressure.
- Randy, in his younger days,
was very rebellious.
Randy was the epitome of the rebellious youth.
No matter what Randy did, there was a sense of just trouble.
there was a sense of darkness.
narrator: April 2, 2005,
was a very special day for the Orton family.
Cowboy Bob Orton was being enshrined
into the WWE Hall of Fame
and Randy would have the honor of inducting his father.
- The night before,
I decided to stay up all night with a couple guys
that I knew I shouldn't have been hanging around with.
And we got into some stuff
that kept us up all night.
[applause]
When I inducted my father into the Hall of Fame, I--
I was out of it.
This business--
my grandfather was-- was in this business.
Where you at, Grandpa? Where you at?
Come on, now. Bob Orton, Sr.
[cheers and applause]
I hadn't come up with a speech.
I winged it.
I spoke from the heart,
but I didn't do my father justice.
Ladies and gentl--gentlemen, the man that I love,
my father,
Cowboy Bob Orton.
That look of disappointment on my father's face.
If I have any regrets as far as my career goes,
that's probably-- that's probably it.
It made me act out even more.
- [screams] RKO out of nowhere.
- I think that a lot of times
when you create this character,
like, it's this fine line
of when you tread, like, too far off
and you lose sense of what's real and what's not.
The person that goes the deepest
into the character
sometimes is the most interesting to watch, you know?
And when it's safely done,
there's genius to that, you know.
But it can be harmful, 'cause
if you really want to convince people,
sometimes you have to really live that.
narrator: By the end of 2005,
the line between Randy Orton the superstar
and Randy Orton the person
was basically gone.
- Here we are a year later,
I'm having a problem with substance abuse.
And I got into some trouble.
I drove home from a show in Peoria, Illinois,
to St. Louis back to my house.
And I'm just white knuckling the wheel.
I get home, now it's early, wee hours of the morning,
and I want to--I want to crash, so what do you do?
Well, I take my pills.
This'll put me to sleep.
[siren wailing]
And I was right,
because I woke up in the ER.
[monitor beeping]
[siren wailing]
[monitor beeping] - I woke up in the ER.
And I'd had an accidental overdose.
And I remember realizing that I'm mad at myself
that I was so [bleep] dumb to jeopardize
all these opportunities that I'd been given.
And I didn't necessarily act out
because I was an [bleep].
I acted out because I didn't know who I was yet.
And that I had been thrust into the spotlight so early on
to where I hadn't led enough of a life
and been schooled on what it means to be a man yet.
I was in the circus at an early age,
traveling town to town.
The world was my playground,
but it was a reality check.
After the hospital, I was close,
I was very close to,
you know, being fired from the WWE.
I realized I had to stop [bleep] around
and I had to get my ass into line.
I ended up going to rehab,
I cleaned myself up,
and I got in the ring again.
[cheers and applause]
narrator: After overcoming the demon of addiction,
Randy was still able to tap into
that part of his personality
that dragged him into the darkness.
In the ring, Orton was more evil than ever.
- I think he thought he had to be this "person"
or this, you know, "The Viper," and act a certain way
and kind of give off that vibe
like he got all his [bleep] together.
Nobody got all their [bleep] together.
- In order to get into a character
and have a healthy relationship
to that character,
you have to manage that character.
You have to know who you are and what's important to you
so that the character doesn't ultimately manage you.
- I was narcissistic.
I was an [bleep].
Seriously, no.
And I still have all those attributes now.
I'm the WWE world heavyweight champion.
[crowd chanting "Randy"]
Only I know that I have them. I'm aware of them.
I'm able to use them at work for good.
I find that mindset, I know the story,
and I go out there and I do my best to tell it.
Back when we were doing
the intermittent explosive disorder storyline,
that's a disorder that my character had,
which was basically throwing temper tantrums,
violent temper tantrums at that.
- [screams]
- I had all this--
all these experiences up here that I'd kind of blocked out
because they were bad experiences,
because they were embarrassing.
But the more mature that I got in the business,
I was able to use those experiences
and tie them into my character.
- [groans]
- [screams]
- The Viper coiled, ready to strike!
- And I've learned,
there's no better drug in the world
than being in that ring
and everything going right.
I love this, and that feeling, there's nothing like it.
There's magic there.
* *
narrator: In December 2020,
Randy Orton proved that there was no limit
to the level of evil that he was willing to inflict
upon his opponent.
- The Fiend is in the building.
- But is Orton truly prepared
for what's about to happen?
- When I was wrestling The Fiend,
I knew that I had to believe that
this individual was capable of
harnessing evil, demonic powers.
[flames roar]
I considered him enough of a threat
that I was legitimately
fearing The Fiend.
- [groans] - [screams]
- Randy's range is incredible.
I mean, I think he can do anything he wants.
It's not just him being like this.
- [groans]
- He smiles, and you think,
"Oh, he's happy. He's the good guy."
No, he's smiling because he, like,
destroyed somebody's life.
- Oh, Orton's turned it around.
- Oh, no. He's on fire! - He's on fire.
- Oh, my God. Orton's set The Fiend on fire!
- My God.
- And that's why he such a good bad guy
because anybody could beat anybody up,
but how do you want them to feel
about you beating this person up?
- Oh, RKO.
- Now it's The Fiend who is finding out
how sadistic and barbaric
Randy Orton can be.
- This is not the same as going to the movies.
This isn't going to a play or a musical.
It's something unique unto itself.
And when you go to a WWE show
and when you watch a villain perform,
even if you hate the villain 'cause they're so bad
and they're doing things that are so immoral and wrong,
if they do it in a way that's captivating,
there's sort of no way to stop yourself
from pulling for that person to a certain degree.
You want them on your TV.
- If you get those people to believe
that you believe in yourself,
the battle's won
and you're just there to enjoy the spoils.
- Oh!
- My God!
narrator: Randy Orton became one of the most menacing
and believable villains in WWE history
by expressing his real life mistakes and pain
and then taking it out on his opponents in the ring.
- RKO. - [laughs]
both: Wow.
- The other shoulder's down.
Beautiful performance. [bell rings]
- He's learned from his mistakes
and he's learned from other folks.
And he carries himself with class.
You know, as stuff sinks in,
you know, it's just a shame
it doesn't sink in when you're in your 20s.
- He had to walk around with that strut
like "I'm that guy"
and he doesn't do that anymore, you know?
He's like, "I'm this guy" and take it or leave it.
- [screams]
- Hold on, hold on. Oh, [bleep].
- Oh, for [bleep] sake! Oh, my God.
- I thought it was gonna peel out.
- He's a bad guy
but he's also the guy everybody loves,
kids, dads, moms.
[cheers and applause]
- I'm getting to the point in my career
where I have done absolutely everything that there is to do.
The only things that I haven't done
are the things that they haven't invented yet,
but sure as [bleep], once they invent them,
once they come up with these new ideas
and these new achievements, I will achieve them.
And I will have done more than anybody else
in the history of this business
and there's a reason for that:
consistency.
- Oh, superplex.
- He's head and shoulders above everyone, I think.
You know, not just in stature but in ability too.
- Here...
- There's some guys that are pretty gosh darn good,
but he's got it all.
He's the whole package.
- Here's the X Factor!
- I think Randy Orton, from day one,
everything about him screamed World Champion.
- He did it! - Randy Orton has done it!
- Destiny, JR!
- Randy is that guy,
and he didn't shy away from it.
I think he owned it and I think,
in his head, he is that guy.
But he really is.
[laughs]
If you could get past his outbursts.
- The audience appreciates Randy Orton
more and more every single day.
As evil as Randy can be,
Randy is so talented
that no matter what you do,
the audience will always appreciate how evil he is.
[cheers and applause]
- * I hear voices in my head *
* They counsel me, they understand *
* They talk to me * - The Apex Predator,
Randy Orton.
- * They talk to me *
* Talk to me, talk to me *
- Randy Orton is the coolest.
See, I got the best view because I'm on the scooter
and I kind of trail behind him.
You know, just look at a crowd and they're...[gasps]
And I'm like, "It's Randy." You know?
I have to work a little harder.
I'm like, "Yeah!" You know?
Randy's just...
kind of gives them, like, the "Zoolander," magnum face.
[cheers and applause] - Here are your winners.
The team of Randy Orton and Riddle.
- I think a lot of people forget that
when you're dedicating yourself, your life,
your years, your youth,
it takes a lifetime to become the Legend Killer,
and that's what Randy is.
He's the Apex Predator,
The Viper, The Legend Killer.
- * I hear voices *
- He's Randy Orton, bro.
[cheers and applause]
- My entrance song is "Voices."
And people will ask me, you know,
"What do the voices tell you?"
I just kind of roll my eyes 'cause, you know, they don't--
it's an entrance song, right?
I've had this song for over a decade
and the more I hear it,
the more it kind of dawns on me that
maybe I was hearing voices.
Maybe those voices early on
were telling me I wasn't good enough.
And I'm talking when I was a kid.
Those voices early on were telling me that
I didn't have any reason to be confident.
Those voices were telling me that I could never, ever
follow in my father's footsteps.
Those voices were my own self-doubt.
Those voices were the naysayers.
Those voices were me doubting myself.
And now,
I feel if someone were to ask me,
"What are the voices telling you?"
That I think the answer would be that I'm--
that I'm content.
[cheers and applause]
That I'm happy with who I am.
Not as the performer, the entertainer,
or the character of Randy Orton,
but as Randy Orton,
he's happy.