14, 2003, defeating Rob Van Dam for the Intercontinental Championship at Armageddon. Orton captured his first major championship on Dec. Upon returning to active competition in May 2003, Orton was instantly recruited by Triple H to join with the legendary "Nature Boy" Ric Flair, and the animal Batista as part of Evolution. Refusing to sit idly on the sidelines, Orton continued making appearances on WWE television, going as far as attacking targeted Superstars with his crutches and giving fans constant updates on his medical progress … whether they wanted them or not. In April 2002, he began his WWE career with an appearance on SmackDown! A few months into his rookie run, an unfortunate injury put him out of action. It's no wonder he has quickly ascended to the higher echelons of the RAW roster. After all, he was practically raised in the business that both his father and grandfather excelled in. Randy Orton's arrival in WWE was seemingly inevitable. Sound good? Thought so!īut enough with the setup already, let's get the show on the road! So sit back, relax, and enjoy today's Countdown superstar, Randy Orton! When we reach the legends in our countdown, we'll go ahead and up the ante again by providing you with two of them every day until we've reached all eleven. So to do things a little bit differently, we're going to reward dedicated wrestling fans by giving them two wrestlers every Monday and Thursday (the nights that SmackDown! and RAW air on television) in addition to our solo updates on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. RAW roster in a way we haven't done before. As we're spending the next seven weeks highlighting all 52 current and legendary superstars on the SmackDown vs. In the meantime, we're dedicating ourselves to bringing our fans the best damn SmackDown coverage they could ever hope for. Refined graphics, smarter AI, better grappling mechanics, and an improved presentation are just a few of the improvements worth mentioning with several other more subtle refinements, best left for you to the gamer to uncover. And though this new version does suffer from a slightly smaller roster when compared to last year's Here Comes the Pain, it still manages to pack in an incredible amount of new features that should more than make up for the lack of wrestlers. RAW marks the first time in the series' history that it takes a step into the online arena. So for this, our fourth consecutive year, your friends here at IGNPS2 have returned to the squared circle to once bring you just one step closer to the men and women that do so much to make THQ's successful wrestling franchise what it is: awesome.Īnd fittingly enough, this year's edition of the fashionable franchise is easily its most ambitious version to date, as WWE SmackDown! vs. And to think that we would ever let a year go by where we didn't revisit the famed SmackDown Countdown is a serious mistake on all parts. Now if only he could talk them in to changing that tired Raw theme song.To call it IGN's most popular recurring feature would be an understatement. The last entrance song he had was terrible. The following week, CM Punk debuted and they gave him my music." Powell's POV: This story meshes with an item I posted months ago regarding Orton's hatred of his old entrance theme and his attempts to have it changed. Finally, I gave them a CD and said that I wanted this music, so they bought the song and they played it for two weeks until Vince said it didn't fit my character. I told Vince (McMahon) and Kevin Dunn, the producer, that I hated my music, so they said they'd get me something new, but it was four years.
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They even tried to tweak it a bit and I still hated it." To read the full interview, visit.
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I hated it from the first day I heard it. "For the longest time, I had the Burning My Light or whatever the entrance music was that started with 'Hey, nothing you can say,' and I hated that shit for all four years.
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"I wish we could pick our theme music," he said. Orton also sounded off on his last entrance theme. "First I thought I wasn't good enough, because I couldn't lift the controller, but eventually it got to a point where that stuff's really helpful.' "Any movement I could do with my left arm for my collarbone was great," Orton said of playing Nintendo Wii. Randy Orton discussed video games and entrance music in an interview with. Randy Orton vents about his last entrance theme, says video games helped him rehab his collarbone injury, reveals which wrestler ended up with an entrance theme that was pegged for him