An injury scare broke out during this past weekend’s live event in Hershey, Pennsylvania. This time it was WWE veteran Randy Orton who left the arena clutching his knees up. His knee joint was already damaged due to relentless attack from AJ Styles from earlier weeks which was an indication that he might have been hurt, legit.
As reported earlier, speculations were running rampant that Randy Orton suffered the knee injury during WWE Live Event after the referees helped him to the locker room.
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However, reliable sources already informed that it was just a kayfabe angle to play out with Styles. That apparently became true on this week’s edition of WWE Monday Night Raw infuriating the creative team of the company.
INJURY UPDATE: @RandyOrton is undergoing medical evaluation amid various reports of a sustained leg injury during last night's WWE Live Event in Hershey, PA. https://t.co/qZARaJH8sZ
— WWE (@WWE) December 30, 2019
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer shot down the rumors of Randy Orton suffering the injury. He revealed that it was a storyline. As seen on RAW, it ended up being so as The Viper punked AJ Styles into thinking he was injured.
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Moments later, The Apex Predator struck him with his pendant RKO to let the fans go gaga over it. It also gave a sigh of relief to the fans who thought it was a career-ending injury.
*AND SCENE*#RKOOuttaNowhere #RAW @RandyOrton pic.twitter.com/x5mmCyAzaC
— WWE (@WWE) December 31, 2019
Tom Colohue reported that WWE officials weren’t happy how the Randy Orton injury news was leaked out ahead of time. They do not expect such ‘works’ to be disclosed earlier that potentially kill the thrill of an angle, (courtesy wwfoldschool.com)
“I’m hearing that a lot of people in WWE management are furious that Dave Meltzer leaked backstage information about this week’s Randy Orton storyline.
One person told me that they believe that creative find it much harder to write when everyone already knows the ending.”
told you I was impatient … had to drop one more RKO before the end of the decade. #HappyNewYear @AJStylesOrg! https://t.co/jiwLgcupvt
— Randy Orton (@RandyOrton) December 31, 2019
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It must be the reason that WWE is taking precautionary measures to stop WrestleMania plans to be revealed out. This could be why they have not finalized the WrestleMania 36 plans, as well to keep the confusion around the card. It’ll be interesting to see whether this could favor the officials in the future from leaking out the storylines.
