10 WWE Stars Who Had Heat With Randy Orton
Randy Orton certainly didn't like everyone in WWE
4. Kofi Kingston
Kofi Kingston looked like he was about to Boom Drop his way through the glass ceiling towards the end of 2009, thanks to a programme with Randy Orton that saw Kofi routinely get one over on WWE’s Apex Predator.
Highlights included Kingston putting Orton through a table in Madison Square Garden, eliminating Orton to win a Survivor Series tag match as the sole survivor and a singles match between the two at TLC.
But after wrestling Orton and John Cena in a triple threat match on the January 11, 2011, episode of Raw, Kofi’s push came to a screeching halt.
The reason was because Kingston forgot to stay down for Randy’s Punt Kick finisher and instead had to take an RKO.
Fans would have been none the wiser, had Orton not shouted “STUPID! STUPID!” at Kofi before making the cover.
After this incident, rumours persisted that Randy’s outburst and annoyance at Kingston cost Kofi a planned victory in the Money in the Bank Ladder Match at WrestleMania 26.
Kofi himself alluded to the supposed heat in a 2012 interview, saying he found the online talk funny while acknowledging that Orton had ‘an attitude’.
This history of heat later played into their 2019 feud over Kingston’s WWE Title.
