1) Backstage Note Randy Orton’s Status After RAW
According to Sean Ross Sapp on Fightful Select (subscribe here), Randy Orton and Matt Riddle were originally supposed to win their tag team match against The Street Profits. Orton wasn’t able to kick out after taking hard frog splash from Montez Ford.
Orton was said to have only suffered a stinger/tweak but WWE is going to monitor his status over the next little while. There is also no heat on Montez Ford for what happened.
Here is what Sapp wrote:
“We’re told that Orton and Riddle were originally slated to win the match with a series of RKOs, but because of Orton’s condition at the time, it didn’t happen. As we mentioned on the post show review last night, initial indications were that it was just a stinger or a tweak, but WWE plans on monitoring the situation as a lot can change overnight.
“Since then, we’ve heard it was a bit of a combo of Orton getting the wind knocked out of him, his ribs crushed, and not being able to move. We’re told there was no heat on Montez Ford on the spot and it was considered a ‘shit happens’ situation.”
My Take:
- It was definitely a weird ending to the match. Glad to hear that Orton is going to be okay and hopefully that doesn’t change over the next few days.
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