Professional wrestling legend and future WWE Hall of Famer Randy Orton who is a former 14 times WWE World champion recently talked about his feud with the Fiend. He said that he had to work really hard to make the feud look real.
Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt actually had two feuds in their WWE career. Both headed on to Wrestlemania. Their first feud started back in 2016 and it went on till WrestleMania 33. The feud was mainly for the WWE Championship and it was finally won by Orton.
Randy Orton Reveals How Much He Worked To Make His Feud With Fiend Look Real
The second feud started back in 2020 which was also destined for Wrestlemania. This feud was quite different from their previous feud. In this feud, it was the Fiend who was involved. Ultimately dispute was won by Orton as well, and it was a terrible defeat for Bray Wyatt at the end.
After this feud, it look like Bray Wyatt and Alexa Bliss will have a feud against each other since Alexa bliss betrayed Wyatt at the end of his match against Orton at WrestleMania 37. WWE even teased this feud but at the end of the day Bray Wyatt was released from WWE, and it was quite shocking.
There is a rumour that Wyatt will make his return to professional wrestling through WWE only and he will be a surprise entrant at the Royal Rumble match. If this is actually happens, it will make the fans go crazy. But there is a very fat chance of it actually happening.
Needless to say, Bray Wyatt’s last feud in the WWE was with Orton and it is arguably the worst feud he ever had in his WWE career. It took a long time to build The Fiend character. It was actually destroyed when he lost to Goldberg at the Super Showdown pay per view event of 2020. The character could have been developed once again but losing to Randy Orton destroyed it completely.
Randy Orton who is a former 14 times WWE World champion recently spoke to Ringers Wrestling podcast where he talked about his feud with the Fiend. He said that he had to work really hard to make the feud look real. He said;
“They put me in the burn mask one week and the next week I’m out of it and my skin healed. It’s tough. Then you go to, who you would imagine you go to when you have a gripe, and go, ‘Hey, I can’t do this. Aren’t they gonna….’ [Vince impression], ‘Just do it. It’s going to work.’ ‘Okay.’ Roll with the punches. You go out there and do your best job. Even though I’m lighting a dead guy on fire and he’s the babyface…
“I had a very hard time trying to make that real, but I feel like I did a good enough job to where even though it was a little cringe-worthy for some people, because I really tried to believe I was going through this, I think it helped people buy into it a little bit more while we were suspending that reality and trying to make them believe like they would if they were watching the most recent Halloween movie.”
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