One other week, one more reason to complain about Pat McAfee’s strange alliance with Randy Orton. While this week actually (and thankfully) wasn’t as egregious as the previous couple of weeks, it wasn’t great. We opened the show with McAfee and Orton arriving, they usually didn’t cross paths with Rhodes, as he arrived later. Truthfully, that might need been one of the best a part of each Orton and Rhodes’ segments tonight, because the “American Nightmare’s” lovefest with CM Punk to finish the show also fell flat.
Rhodes’ promo aside, the night began with general manager Nick Aldis handing McAfee some sort of agreement, which was never explained. Orton didn’t should sign anything, just McAfee, who apparently read over the document and signed while Orton was within the ring cutting his promo. Now, Aldis is not a heel GM, so I can not imagine there’s anything in there that is going to screw Rhodes over on Saturday, but at this point, with the whole lot that is gone on since this ‘Mania feud took a Yinzer turn, who knows.
As his former mystery ally was wrapping up whatever he needed to sign, Orton made his way out to the ring and cut was a fairly okay promo, I just thought it was somewhat too late at this point. He heeled it up when he said he didn’t need McAfee, he wanted him by his side, which is pretty silly, however it got heat. He went on about considering he’d be fighting Drew McIntyre as champion, not Rhodes, and the way he needed to bring out one of the best version of himself to fight Rhodes, which the champion technically gave him permission to do right before Orton turned heel.
Orton blamed Rhodes for the whole lot bad that has happened to him in recent times, because he’d been protecting Rhodes and helping him get to the highest somewhat than worry about himself. Which was excellent, it just must have been your entire reason for his heel turn, not because McAfee got in his head. Orton actually said that McAfee had done more for him than Rhodes throughout his profession, which is only a weird, blatant lie that stood out like crazy in what was seemingly going to be a solid promo.
While what Orton said was mostly good, it was just numerous great way too late at this point to save lots of anything. Thankfully, he got to try to make things better a bit without McAfee within the ring with him, which was helpful. But, overall, between saying that McAfee was more helpful than Rhodes throughout Orton’s journey, to regardless of the heck McAfee signed on the dotted line for, it just left me feeling nervous for what’s to return with this story, even after WrestleMania.
Written by Daisy Ruth