Alright for the last week or so, the hot topic in the WWE has been the championship reign of Christian. Christian has been wrestling for 17 years, both in the WWE and TNA. He had never won any major title, but all that changed at Extreme Rules on May 1. He defeated Alberto Del Rio to finally accomplish his dream of winning the World Heavyweight Championship. Yes, he did win the ECW Championship, but we all know that was really nothing.
Anyway, he won the title and was challenged by three wrestlers, one of them Randy Orton, on Friday Night Smackdown. Long story short, Randy Orton won the match and the championship, effectively ended Christian's title reign at 5 days. Many people in the IWC, the internet wrestling community, have been calling foul for his title reign being so short and also for Orton being the one who ended it. Some have been blaming Orton for this whole situation, even going as far was sending him hate tweets to his account: @RandyOrton. But the truth is, Orton is not the one to blame.
The one to blame is the head of the WWE, Vince McMahon. It has been noted that McMahon doesn't have faith in Christian to be the face of the company. He doesn't think Christian has the 'it' factor to carry a show like John Cena or Randy Orton. Sure Christian is a better wrestler than the two of them combined, but he doesn't have market ability that Cena and Orton have. He might be over with the IWC, but he is over as much Cena and Orton are. It's always about money when it comes to the WWE, and they didn't think he would sell posters, t-shirts or whatever they sell now-a-days like the latter.
Second, for people to blame Orton is crazy. The man was just doing his job. It's not like he booked himself to win the match. He's not like Kevin Nash back in the WCW days, destroying Goldberg's streak and all. Now some people have said Orton could have said 'no' to winning the title. But seriously, how would that looked to Vince. One of his top talents saying no to the championship. If Orton would have done that, Vince would have probably buried him so deep that the next time he would get a title shot is when his daughter is his age right now. So Orton had really no choice but to win the match that was booked for him to win; he was just doing his job.
But probably the worst thing out of this is how people are treating Orton on the internet. Sure you can voice your opinion how you think it is unfair for him to win the title again, but for people to say they hope he gets injured or other hurtful things about his family is plain horrible. Like Joey Styles said last week, "When sending hate tweets to myself or @WWE because of @Christian4Peeps, @RandyOrton and the World Heavyweight Championship, please be PG ;)"
Really people, it should not have to come this, just be respectful when it comes to this kind of stuff. Lighten up people. Remember we are talking about a scripted sports entertainment show.
Some people are acting as if this is completely real. They are out there putting a show for us. Enjoy the show they risk their bodies each week for us because if this wasn't around, then some people out there would be bored as hell.
-Christopher J. Valverde
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