Randy Orton on European Crowds: “I Hope We Do More PLE’s Over There”

Randy Orton was recently a guest on Adam’s Apple where he discussed several topics. Among them were WWE’s recent trip to Europe, the crowds they encountered, and his future in professional wrestling.

Below are some highlights from the interview:

Orton on the European Crowds and how they compare to the United States:

“Do you want me to be honest? Night and day. Well, let’s just put it this way: since 2009, I’ve had the same entrance song. No American crowd has ever sung along to my song, and they did it in France three nights in a row. S**t, we were in Bologna, Italy, and Vienna, Austria, the first two shows of the tour, and I could hear them singing there, too. France, it was mind-blowing, as an example. They were very happy to be there. They were on their feet the whole time. They knew all of us, all of our characters, well enough to…..they knew what they wanted to expect. We gave it to them. It just made it for an amazing environment. I hope we do more PLEs over there.”

Orton on his future in professional wrestling:

“If you would have asked me two years ago, I would have thought I was close to the end because I had spinal fusion about a year and a half ago. That changed the game. I had been in pain through my entire 30’s and was hurting. I was begging for time off when I was 35. I think Vince’s [McMahon] quote to me was, ‘Mother nature gets us all.’ That’s hard to hear when you’re 35, and your back hurts, and you’re busting your ass for this company. There have been some changes. And now, I think instead of pushing the guys and running their dicks into the ground until they fall apart, there is a great atmosphere of ‘how can we make this guy last?’ The beauty of it is I’m not even there yet. I feel so great after my surgery. I’m a full-time guy. I don’t want to do the old Undertaker or Shawn Michaels schedule, which they needed to do, understandably. Wrestling at WrestleMania, take the summer off, maybe you see them at SummerSlam. I want to be on the road every week. I want to make all the TVs. I want to be on all the PLEs. At 44, I would love to be able to go until my 50’s. Maybe I wrestle until I’m 50 and call it. That’s 30 years, 30 years with the same company, on top.”

[h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription]

 

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