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Who Called Randy Orton?! Did I Figure It Out?

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Randy Orton picked up the phone… but WHO was on the other end?

That one moment on WWE RAW has the entire wrestling world guessing. Was it The Rock? Was it Ric Flair? Could it be someone from Randy’s past like Bob Orton? Or is this leading to something even bigger heading into WrestleMania season?

In this video, we break down every possible name that could’ve called Randy Orton and what each scenario means for WWE going forward. From legends to shocking returns, this could be the start of something HUGE.

If WWE plays this right, this one phone call could change everything.

Drop your prediction in the comments right now. Who do YOU think called Randy?

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When you were watching Friday, no, you're right, it was time.

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Who was Randy Orton on the phone with on Monday Night Raw that reminded him that he was a killer?

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Wrestling has more than one royal family.

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Randy is included. That reminded him that wrestling has more than one royal family. That's what we're going to answer today. I've got some obvious choices. Like The Rock and Bob Orton, Randy Orton's dad, and some not so obvious choices. And the last one is a crazy theory that I have that it would be, it would be something in my low-key kind of want. But before we talk about that, let's talk about big gold on my shoulder. Randy Orton at the age of 24 became the youngest world champion ever. The youngest world champion in history. And if you want to become a world champion, all you gotta do is comment below and subscribe to this channel. At 20,000 subscribers, I'm gonna give away said belt. It's not a toy, people, it's a replica, and it can be yours free shipping anywhere in the world. All right, so my first suspect is The Rock. Now I know The Rock is a busy man. However, he is still a board member of TKO.

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TKO announcing that The Rock will be joining its board of directors.

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He makes a lot of money when WWE does good, does well. And last year, when when Elimination Chamber wasn't doing so hot in the ticket sales, they called up The Rock.

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We get a call from Ari Emanuel. He said, We need help. Ticket sales are a little slow.

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He said, Hey Rock, come on over. And that's when The Rock, you know, asked for Cody's soul.

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I want your soul.

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Cody said no, and he flipped John Cena. It's your final year, dude. Fast forward to this year, ticket sales from WrestleMania. They're not so hot. Therefore, they call back The Rock, and now The Rock is in play again, the final boss. He comes at it from the angle of you know what? Last year I flipped John Cena and that didn't work. So this year I'm flipping Randy Orton. Now we could either have Randy Orton just completely align with The Rock, or The Rock could be like, he only wants Cody's soul, right? And this would explain why he didn't actually align with John Cena. He flipped John Cena, but he didn't take John as his like as his corporate champion. And so what The Rock does here is he flips Randy Orton, reminds him everything that he is, but he's gonna take a hands-off approach to this because what The Rock is trying to do is weaken, weaken the resolve of Cody Rhodes. He's turning every one of his heroes or his mentors or his friends heel on him. So he gets, he calls up Randy Orton, gets Randy to flip, and this will then cause a domino effect for Cody Rhodes for in the future, maybe a year from now, maybe three months from now, in the future, Cody has nowhere to go. He's at rock bottom because all of his friends have turned on him for that WWE championship. And lo and behold, the rock shows up and says, Hey, Cody, you want to reconsider that offer? And Cody gives his soul to the rock at that point. The second one is the easiest one to explain. It's his dad.

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Your son Randy seems to be a little mentally unstable.

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Well, he hears them voices, you never know what he's gonna do. His dad, Bob Orton, who has been in wrestling angles with Randy Orton before. Cowboy Bob O challenge the Undertaker. Undertaker on his shoulder. How's the cowboy Bobbo? Now it was 20 years ago, and even then Bob Orton was a retired wrestler, so he can't wrestle nowadays, but he could still be kind of sort of part of storylines. He just has to make a phone call to his son and remind him. And then he doesn't even have to be in this. Rainy Ort could just come up and say, Yeah, I was talking to my dad. My dad reminded me that we are also a wrestling dynasty, and then we could just move on from that, from this little mystery. It would be kind of anticlimactic if I'm being honest with you. But yes, his dad, definitely an option, makes a lot of sense. Third option, probably Ric Flair. Woo! Ric Flair might be kind of like a wrestling dad to Randy Orton. They spent a lot of time in evolution together.

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Intercontinental champion Randy Orton and the Victor Boy, Rick Flair.

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And I I could just see it, you know, Ric Flair watching TV, just as like, what? Who is this Randy Orton? This killer. Ric Flair has gone on record saying that he wanted Randy to beat his record. I want you to break my record. What if Ric Flair has called Randy Orton and said, You need to become the 18-time champion? Ric Flair's the dirtiest player in the game, so he tells him, you know what? Get to Cody and beat the crap out of him at the contract signing. And if not Ric Flair, what about Triple H? Triple H and Randy, they go back. Evolution, the authority. What if this is where Triple H turns heel? You know, the fans, they've been booing him. If the fans are gonna complain about Triple H, maybe Triple H is gonna give them something to complain about. I mean, it worked for Vince McMahon back in the day. We all hated Vince for what he did to Brett the Hitman Hart, but nor did Vince McMahon screw Bret Hart. Then Vince McMahon turned that into a character. Bret Hart screwed Bret Hart. And then us crazy wrestling fans started to love, love to hate Vince McMahon, and Triple H could do that here. Now, I really don't think so because Triple H loves to play the modest, the modest head of creative, where he's like, no, no, no, keep the cameras off me. As he puts himself on three WWE video game covers and makes an entire reality show exposing the business all about him. But I digress. I just don't see Triple H doing that. But Triple H is definitely someone who could.

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Whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. You say you shouldn't have dropped me on my head. You say you were saving me from myself. Glad you dropped me on my head.

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Because now I hear voices. What about Kevin Owens? Kevin Owens is still on WWE payroll. He has been out with a neck injury. The last person he feuded with was Randy Orton. And that feud started because Kevin was feuding with Cody Rhodes. What if when when Kevin Owens, you know, went out with out with injury, out of respect, we have Randy Orton go and visit Kevin Owens. I've actually had a couple conversations with him. And then a mutual friendship starts to form. And over time, gradually, Kevin Owens, he he poisons Randy Orton's mind against Cody Rhodes, and he reminds him of who he was. And it could have just been Kevin Owens on the phone. That would be a good use of Kevin Owens. We don't need him every week, but he could show up here and there. Heck, he could even shield Randy a couple times in a fight because nobody wants to nobody wants to hit a guy with a broken neck. If not Kevin Owens, what about Carrion Cross? I mean, I mean Aleister Black. Aleister Black right now is going to people backstage and saying, hey, this good guy thing isn't really working for you.

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Was it time, Randy, when someone like myself would not be able to get close to you?

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Where nobody's afraid of you. You're not winning. You're not this, you're not that. If we want Aleister Black to make this gimmick work, then he has to flip somebody. It has to flip somebody big. Randy Orton's one of the biggest guys to flip. I mean, heck, Aleister Black even beat Randy Orton on a SmackDown main event a couple weeks ago. So Aleister Black could be like, dude, I could never have beaten 2009 Randy Orton. And I wonder, Randy, where is that man? Or what if it's not a devil and it's actually Bro, Danhausen. No, I don't think so. Danhausen doesn't seem to make phone calls. He seems just a peer. He's like a bot mine. All right, let's get serious because if I don't, then people will literally unsubscribe to the channel. Literally, sometimes I'll make one silly joke, and people are like, I was with you until you said something about this person. Unsubscribe, and it's like, all right, man, you lost your chance at winning a title. Okay, in all seriousness, Chris Jericho. Chris Jericho, don't know when his contract is up. It's rumored to be 2026. I thought maybe he was coming at the rumble, thought maybe he was in a crate, so maybe now he's just on the phone with Randy Orton. And this would be a decent pairing because Chris Jericho, he he's not as quick as he once was, so he shouldn't be fighting on every on every episode of SmackDown. However, we don't need to put him out the pasture just yet either. He could still go. Therefore, if you pair him with Randy Oren, he calls him up and says, Yeah, I was up for a while after that. This isn't the Randy Orin that I once knew.

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The way he thinks, the way he acts, one of my favorites to watch, and one of my favorites to work with.

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Come on, Randy, we've been going on, we've been doing this for years. This is not you. You need to step up your game. You need to be that killer again. And so Chris Jericho could then just be kind of like Randy Orin's hype man, like he was with KO. Chris out, but I be you! No, no, no.

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It was all you.

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It was all me! All you and then eventually, of course, they'll split up, and then Chris Jericho can go on his retirement tour before Guther inevitably uh retires him. Three more to go, and I'm gonna say Paul Heyman. You can call and you can tell him Daddy's back. Paul Heyman is a survivor right now. Right now, he's at the weakest he's been in a very long time. Seth Rollins, Braun Breaker, Bronson Reed all went out with injuries. And yes, he's fighting Seth Rollins right now, but like who's he fighting him with? He doesn't really have anybody, he doesn't have anybody left. And you know, Austin Theory, Logan Paul, they're just, you know, they're just not it, honestly. They're just not at that level yet. And and yes, there's Brock Lesnar, but he has his own issues with Oba Femi now. So Paul Heyman is like, uh-oh. And so maybe Paul Heyman started scrambling. He's a survivor, he's he's a slime ball, and maybe he just called up Randy and he's trying to get he's trying to gain favor with Randy and get Randy to, you know, to attach his wagon to the Randy rocket ship, you know, rocket ship with a wagon, you know. But regardless, I could see I could see Paul Heyman trying to align himself with Randy right there. Maybe it's not someone older or or an equal to Randy at all. Maybe it's rookies. Look at us with a clue holding this place together. Oh my heart. Maybe it's a couple rookies who are like Randy. We want to learn under you, but we don't want to learn under this Randy, we want to learn under the real Randy, the Randy who's a killer. So we could reform legacy that way. Or, or what if there's already kind of a legacy group in NXT right now? And with a spot of William Regal looking on, bracing who he was born to be. That's being led by Fitfinlay and William Regal, and they're called Birthright, and it's a bunch of second generation uh WWE stars or wrestlers, and so we could just have it being William Regal. What if William Regal called up Randy and was like, This is your birthright? And we could just bring up the entire birthright faction and instantly get credibility because now they're aligned with Randy Orton, and and William Regal is right there at his side, and then finally, my final suspect for who was on the phone with Randy Orton that caused him to crash out against Cody Rhodes is Cody Rhodes. Yes, I'm gonna I'm gonna propose a crazy, uh, crazy theory here that I know is not gonna happen, but what if it did? What if Cody Rhodes is the guy on the other phone, but not even Cody knows that it's Cody Rhodes? What are you talking about, Chop? Stardust. Stardust, what if somehow, some way, Cody Rhodes and Stardust are two different personalities, and the Stardust persona is trying to get out. When when John Cena beat Cody Rhodes last year, and when Drew McIntyre beat Cody Rhodes, that Stardust was able to get stronger and stronger, and that's why we've seen Cody kind of start doing some heel things here and there. And so Stardust has realized that if he can get the belt away from Cody, that Stardust can re-emerge. And you're all like, This is this is insane and this is crazy. You're right, it's insane and crazy, but don't forget, they had Bailey have a split personality a couple months back.

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You're being really mean. Aw, do you think I'm being mean?

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The Stardust persona like can take over Cody now when he kind of falls asleep or when he's like really distracted or stressed out and stuff sometimes. So Stardust himself, in an attempt to get the belt away from Cody, so Stardust could take over, has reached out to Randy and talked Randy into becoming a heel. That's some like that's some comic book stuff right there, people. Batman 2 face stuff right here. So Cody, Cody himself is the culprit. Oh man, oh man. I don't want that to happen, but like if it did, there would be a part of me that wouldn't join it. Cause I'd be like, wow, wow, this is bad. This is so bad that it might be good. Stardust. Alright, boys, all right, girls. Who do you think, who do you think was the culprit? Who's talking to Randy Vitelli? See ya bye.