Randy Orton

Randy Orton recently participated in a interview with 98KUPD, a radio station based in Phoenix. The interview turned out to be quite controversial and has raged up a storm in the world of WWE.

Randy Orton commented on fellow WWE wrestler Kelly Kelly and implied that she had slept with more than ten WWE wrestlers. This created a huge storm in WWE as such comments are very unwelcome and harmful for the image of wrestling.

According to one particular source, if the same comments were made by a mid-level wrestler or even if he made one third of the same comments then he would have been buried away from the WWE business. But Randy Orton got away with his insinuating comments because of his status and fan popularity. He is considered to be one of the three “big golden boys” of WWE. This double standard has been greatly criticized. Just because Randy Orton has fame, status, money and power, he could get away with his nasty comments. According to a WWE insider, if any other wrestler had made a comment then he would have either been suspended, or fined or fired completely. But since Randy Orton is one of the three “big golden boys” of WWE, the other two being John Cena and the Undertaker most probably, he could get away with it.

Apart from this comment, Randy Orton also criticized the management completely for hiring actresses to portray as his wife. He also tore into fellow wrestler The Rock. Thus he =, in one evening, made nasty comments about two of his fellow wrestlers and also criticized the wrestling management and still went about unpunished. WWE is a publicly traded company and it will be interesting to see what the above comments do to the reputation and the image of the company and the brand more importantly.