Why Orton Is Now an Underrated Worker

This is not aimed to address his mic work, character, booking or
anything like that. We're strictly looking at his quality inside the
wrestling ring here.

Orton can be very boring and inconsistent with his work at times, but
overall I think he's had a worthy enough career for him to at the very
least be considered a "good" wrestler.

Have not seen all his work this year,but what I have seen I must say Im very impressed.

-He was a prominent part of the Rumble's success in being a great match.
-Carried Shane to a good match at No Way Out in a great character driven effort.
-Has been in plenty of decent - good Raw tag team matches throughout the year.
-Had a fantastic LMS match with HHH on Raw.
-Had a brilliant performance in a fantastic match at Breaking Point.
-Easily outperformed Cena at Bragging rights in yet another fantastic match.


Plus out of the stuff I haven't seen he's had supposedly good
performances at SS and HIAC gave Dibiase the best singles match of his
career among other achievements.

By all means he's had some letdowns but I think that's mostly due to
his poor chemistry with HHH and a struggle with an injured Batista.
Batista isn't a great worker this year (due to injury probably)
compared to 07 + 08 and doesn't have the best of chemistry with Orton
either. So overall I'd say he's hit and miss against a select few
wrestlers, but has copped far more slack than is justified.

His 2004 was incredible, 2005 was very good, 2006 was below average
(dealt with terrible booking though), 2007 was another breakout year
full of quality and he had a series of great performances in 2008. This
year isn't over and I think if you exclude his series with HHH (the two
workers that should never have had such a long series) then he's had a
plethora of praise worthy performances. Fair enough, he and HHH bombed
out in the main event of the biggest show of the year - but it's like
the disappointment from that has blinded people from all of the good
stuff he's done since then.

His style isn't for everyone but it's effective as a heel, plays
perfectly to his unique gimmick, makes him stand out and makes his
opponents seem all the more exciting. Basically he makes marks and
smarks alike get behind the face due to them wanting his "methodical"
offence to end. I think it works and only stops him having a great
match occassionally. Even if it's not exciting it's definitely
effective and positions the audience exactly where they should be -
against the heel. He's gone from being overrated in the ring in 2006
when he was struggling booking wise to being underrated in the ring in
2009 when he's at the top of the heel pecking order.

tbh ppl tend to claim hes not a good wrestler, becaus he does the same moves, but tbh the way i see it, he does those moves, as thats what hes known for, its part of his "offense"
ive always thought he was a good wrestler, he certainly aint the best, by a mile. But as this is sports-entertainment, you cant just have wrestling skills to get by, Shelton Benjamin is a testament to that

Yeah Orton is a decent wrestler but his wrestling and promos just bore me.

I can say the same about Cena except for the 'decent wrestler' bit

Oh Orton made the rumble good? You mean having three people team up throughout the whole match made it more exciting? No.

And Orton is nowhere near underrated. In his 7 year career, his already a 6 time World Champion and Royal Rumble winner. How is that underrated, really?

He does get pretty boring on the mic, he sounds like a robot, but he is a good wrestler and plays his character well

Write a book or something... shit!

I completely agree with everything you said, there's not a single word in there that i disagreed with. Good job

Ortan is good in the ring he can act a lot out in the ring which is why i like him when he wrestles but your right she is alittle boring on the mic but its his gimmick she is the killer he is a cold blooded killer and he does it well but after a while it gets boring he should go back to his cocky gimmick where he thinks he is the best and no one is better like when he first came in he was the best than.