Randy Orton and Riddle, collectively known as RK-Bro have been an extremely popular and fan-favorite combination since the team started to team up as a pair earlier this year. However, the duo weren’t always supposed to be a long-term team. This Vince McMahon health rumor recently stunned Randy Orton.
During a recent interview with Ariel Helwani of BT Sport, ‘The Original Bro’ himself discussed that very topic and how RK-Bro went from a short-term idea to currently the WWE Raw Tag Team Champions. Credit to SportsKeeda for the following.
“It’s crazy, you think about how it started it’s just like, how funny would it be if we’re RK-Bro and then we do it and the story and that’s the thing with wrestling,” said Riddle. ” You can pitch it, but you never know who is going to be the next big thing or what’s going to attract a mass audience. RK-Bro started getting legs and taking off, it wasn’t supposed to last this long, at all. Randy was supposed to beat me up, probably, but the people loved it so much and they just went with it.”
In other news regarding Randy Orton, former WWE Cruiserweight Champion, TJP recently revealed the tattoo advice that he got from ‘The Viper’. TJP made the comments on the Wrestling Perspective Podcast. Credit to Fightful for the below transcription. Randy Orton also ‘humiliated’ this top name in this recent photo.
TJP stated: “So long story short, I’m there for like a year and they’re like, you know, don’t make any major changes. Okay, that’s fine. I’m 23/24 years old. I’m young. I know what I want to do but that’s fine. Then Ring of Honor for a couple of years. Same thing. We’re gonna try to do action figures and stuff so don’t make any major changes. Then TNA I was Suicide for a few years and then we took the sleeves off the costume and the same thing, they’re like, don’t make any major changes. Alright. Then WWE, same thing. After about a year or two, I went to talent relations, I said, Look guys, I’m a grown-ass man. I got to start living my life. It’s not even about like look. I mean, these are all just, this is my life story written on my arms. I know that sounds super cliche and I’m sure everybody with tattoos probably says that same sort of thing. But yeah, I mean all this stuff is just stuff that I would have done gradually had I kind of had the chance. Just at a certain point, I was like, I’m not asking for permission anymore, this is what I’m gonna do.”
TJP concluded: “Thankfully they approved it, but they came so fast because Randy Orton gave me that advice. He had gotten hurt, and he had three months off and he was like dude, I always knew what I wanted to do, so I did both my sleeves when I was hurt. He’s like, it’s the best thing because if you’re always travelling, you got to wrestle every week, you don’t want to always putting a bandage over something for years. He is like, get as much done as you can. You know, your immune system goes down when you get tattoos and stuff so some people kind of get sick and he’s like, just get it done. So I just got it done real fast.”
