Randy Orton will never allow RKO to be used like other moves.
One of the major changes in wrestling over the past few years has been the use of finishing moves. Not only have talents started using each other’s finishing moves more often, but wrestlers having to use the finisher multiple times in a match to get the pin has become more common as well.
The Viper talked about his own finishing move during a WrestleMania week interview with The Schmo. Randy Orton first mentioned how Vince McMahon helped make RKO one of the deadliest moves in all of wrestling by protecting it early in his career:
“Vince had a huge hand to play because when I would be wrestling somebody and I was younger, they would want to kick out of my finish. Vince would pull me aside and say, ‘We’re not going to do that. We’re not going to let that happen.’”
I’m Not Going To Dilute My Finish: Randy Orton
Randy Orton then claimed that he will never allow RKO to be diluted so much that it has to be hit multiple times to get to the finish. According to the Legend Killer, it is always going to be a kill shot:
“I’ll never hit a guy with three RKOs to cover him and pin him. I’m not going to dilute my finish. That is always going to be a kill shot and I can hit it out of nowhere. Vince has a huge part to play when it comes to my finish and that’s a huge part of being a WWE superstar, what’s your finishing move.”
Cody Rhodes made an appearance on this week’s Raw, but Orton did not. It’s unknown if he will be taking a break from WWE programming after his WrestleMania loss.