WWE Hall of Famer and professional Wrestling Legend Kurt Angle recently addressed the former 13 times WWE World Champion Randy Orton as one of the best Heels in professional wrestling history ever.
Randy Orton started his professional wrestling career back in the year 2000. He performed in the development Territory of WWE back then which was the Ohio Valley Wrestling. In 2002, he made his main roster debut.
Kurt Angle Says Randy Orton Is One Of The Best Heels Ever
He first worked as a member of the legendary WWE stable Evolution. In Summerslam 2004, he won his first World Championship and he became the youngest WWE world champion in that time by beating Brock Lesnar’s record. In 2005, before WrestleMania 21 he turned heel when he feuded with the Undertaker. Since then he played a huge heel role for most of the time of his career.
There is no doubt Randy Orton became one of the biggest heels in WWE history. He was one of the biggest Rivals of John Cena back then. Not only he was one of the biggest Heels in WWE history he was very consistent in his role as well. Gotten himself admitted many times that he loved to play the heel gimmick.
Former five times WWE World Champion Kurt Angle recently spoke on this matter during a recent episode of the Kurt Angle show. He said;
“Randy was always good in the ring. He needed to sharpen his skills from a promo perspective, and he did. He is so cold and calculating in the ring. He takes his time. He controls the tempo of the match. He doesn’t let the fans control it. He had to do that with his promos too because sometimes when he would talk, the fans would start responding and he would speed up his conversation. Randy learned how to slow it down and be cool and calculating in his promos as he was in his matches.
Randy is a natural heel. That’s his best asset. There’s no other heel like him. There’s no other heel better than him. He’s great at it. I don’t know if he’s a real life as*hole (Kurt laughs), but you have to have a little a*shole in you to be that kind of character, to portray it, but Randy just had it all together.
“He knew how to take his time. He didn’t let the fans control anything. He would slow the promo down to frustrate the fans until they listened. He knew how to pull back and make sure the fans knew he was in control. That’s Randy Orton…Randy is effective as a babyface, but he still does heel tactics.
“He doesn’t change much of his match or his psychology. Randy is just Randy, and he is a very special talent. The great thing about him is he doesn’t have to have these long, drawn out false finishes in matches. His RKO, he protected it so well, he can hit it out of nowhere and the fans are going to buy into it that it’s the finish.”
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