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As everyone expected, WWE announced on this week’s second to last episode of Thursday Night Smackdown that Brock Lesnar will be taking on the returning Randy Orton next month at SummerSlam in Brooklyn. While I do admit that this is not necessarily a bad plan, it’s not what I would have chosen. Maybe as a WrestleMania match, on a card that has become more about perceived ”super fights” and less about settling the score after a heated rivalry.
One thing that helps the appeal of this match is the lack of contact, physical or otherwise. Their only televised WWE match happened on an episode of Smackdown in 2002. Will either man show up on television before the show? You’d have to expect that we will see Orton on the July 19 draft episode and if nothing else, Paul Heyman will show up to represent his charge at the event.
Lesnar vs. Orton is likely to be a good match, but it would mean a whole heck of a lot more if Orton went back to the heartless viper gimmick that he thrived in. I’ve used this statement before, but Randy Orton is indeed, as JBL says, the template of a wrestler. But that is all he is. Often the man is as vanilla as a performer can get. A cool RKO from an unexpected angle is only going to go so far. It would be great to see Randy come back as early as this week’s RAW and just start his path of destruction in preparation for Brock Lesnar.
I’m talking interfering in matches and beating down the competitors, random RKOs backstage — he should cause chaos. He has to show that he still had that edge that made people believe in him as a cold, soulless monster who could strike at any time and take out anybody. If they go that route, then this match becomes infinitely more I interesting.
If not, then at least it’s happening. At least people who have been bothered that they’ve never had a big match against each other can be sated. At least it’s not Big Show.
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