Randy Orton Responds to Being Called Lazy

During the latest episode of WWE Network’s Bring it to the Table, Peter Rosenberg, who’s the host of the show, accused Randy Orton of phoning it in from time to time. Of course, Rosenberg isn’t the first to point this out, as Triple H recently pointed out the exact same thing.

During an interview with 105.7 The Point in St. Louis, Missouri, Orton responded to his critics, and said that it’s not that he’s lazy, or doesn’t care, it’s just that he’s “stopped giving as much of a crap.”

“I started kind of getting it, so to speak, the light bulb came on when I stopped giving as much of a crap, I guess you can say. I don’t mean in the sense of being lazy or not caring, you know, that’s not true at all. But kind of letting it happen out there and letting it be more organic as opposed to coming up with all these ideas to where it looks more choreographed. Or if you’re banking on a reaction from the crowd in a particular point in a promo or a match and you don’t get that reaction, being prepared to go another route with what you’re doing.

“Last night I was watching a match with my grandfather from 1958. Just to like remember where it came from, how it was back then. It was a hard, stiff like boxing ring, and they didn’t take all these bumps. They told a story and the fans were on the edge of their seat because of how they were telling the story. And so many things have changed, but you can watch those old tapes via YouTube and the Network and it gives guys like me ideas on how to mix it up and be different than everybody else.”

Opinion: For nearly a decade now, Randy Orton has been billed as this amazing wrestler, yet time after time, his matches end up being extremely underwhelming. He could very well be the most overrated main event star in WWE right now, and perhaps of all-time. Everyone says that he’s great, yet he consistently has, at best, 3 star matches.

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