{"id":325708,"date":"2026-04-28T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=325708"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:51:43","slug":"randy-orton-regrets-making-the-rko-his-finisher-paul-heyman-praises-lil-yachtys-wwe-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/randy-orton-regrets-making-the-rko-his-finisher-paul-heyman-praises-lil-yachtys-wwe-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Orton Regrets Making The RKO His Finisher, Paul Heyman Praises Lil Yachty&#8217;s WWE Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Randy Orton has a regret in regards to the RKO.<\/p>\n<p>During a WWE WrestleMania 42 weekend interview with <em>The Schmo<\/em>, Orton revealed that the finisher requires taking a tough back bump each time and that may turn out to be an issue as he ages.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to The Undertaker\u2019s chokeslam as a better finisher, because the person hitting the move takes little impact. The Viper wishes he had built his profession around a move like that. Orton said,<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cAh man, there\u2019s so many good ones. That\u2019s a troublesome query. I\u2019ll inform you what, I\u2019ve talked to The Undertaker about this. His chokeslam, right? Irrespective of how old we get, regardless of how much our bodies won&#8217;t allow us to proceed to do what we like to do as skilled wrestlers \u2014 doing the RKO, there\u2019s going to be a certain point in 10 years where I\u2019m not going to need to take that bump anymore.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cAnd I remember telling Taker like, \u2018Man, you simply need a young athletic talent to come back out, feed, after which jump.\u2019 Give me an Austin Theory, boom! And it\u2019s effortless. And you would be 75, 80 years old, come on the market and do that very same thing. But hitting a cutter, RKO, whatever you wanna call it, there\u2019s going to be a time where you\u2019re going to must stop doing that. So to reply your query, I wish I had a ending move that I&#8217;d have spent over 20 years like I actually have on the RKO, I wish there was a ending move that I had created that wasn\u2019t as physical on me, just like the chokeslam.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RANDY ORTON AT CULTURE KINGS LAS VEGAS WRESTLEMANIA WEEKEND\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vxj1mPhw1cM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Paul Heyman took to social media to praise rapper Lil Yachty for his recent WWE appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Heyman said Yachty shows real respect for WWE, its talent, history, culture, and fan base, despite being an outsider celebrity. He wrote,<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWe live during a moment in time where the celebrity involvement in @WWE has turn out to be quite controversial. @lilyachty\u2019s respect for WWE, the talent \u2013 history \u2013 and culture, together with the fan base, is undeniable. He\u2019s a credit to the concept of \u2018crossover into our business.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Yachty had sided with Trick Williams at WWE WrestleMania 42, helping him win the WWE United States Championship from Sami Zayn, and likewise appeared on SmackDown last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We live during a moment in time where the celebrity involvement in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WWE<\/a> has turn out to be quite controversial. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lilyachty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lilyachty<\/a>&#8216;s respect for WWE, the talent \u2013 history \u2013 and culture, together with the fan base, is undeniable. He&#8217;s a credit to the concept of &#8220;crossover into our business.&#8221;\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w8krPuvuH6\">https:\/\/t.co\/w8krPuvuH6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Heyman (@HeymanHustle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeymanHustle\/status\/2048228318789464068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Orton has a regret in regards to the RKO. During a WWE WrestleMania 42 weekend interview with The Schmo, Orton revealed that the finisher requires taking a tough back bump each time and that may turn out to be an issue as he ages. He pointed to The Undertaker\u2019s chokeslam as a better finisher, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[25778,20031,721,609,15927,4546,5626,15926,3145,32853,612,6221,51113],"class_list":["post-325708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-finisher","tag-heyman","tag-lil","tag-making","tag-orton","tag-paul","tag-praises","tag-randy","tag-regrets","tag-rko","tag-run","tag-wwe","tag-yachtys"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325711,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325708\/revisions\/325711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}