The Official Orton/Legacy vs. McMahon-Helmsley Discussion Thread

[Luke Flywalker]

Okay, so this started before the Royal Rumble when Vince was about to fire Orton. Orton slapped, kicked, and punted the Chairman before he could fire him. Orton won the Royal Rumble, assuring himself a spot at the main event at WrestleMania.

Because of the punt, Shane inserted himself into the ordeal, leading to a No Holds Barred match at No Way Out which Orton won. The following night on Raw, Orton and Shane were engaged in an unsanctioned fight. Legacy came out, and Orton eventually punted Shane.

Stephanie came out (after making a call and plea on the phone earlier in the night), and got in Orton's face as he put it, and Orton RKO'd her. This was followed up by Triple H running to the ring, and displaying probably his best sell of character in his career. Truth be told, I don't believe I've seen anyone sell anger or rage as well as Triple H did on Raw last week.

On SmackDown, WWE aired an interview with Triple H re-revealing his marriage to Stephanie was intact, and that Triple H is the father of her children. Triple H using his family as fuel for his feud with Orton.

On Raw, they played up the entire night to the encounter between Triple H and Legacy, which started in the ring as Orton had his hands on a sledgehammer giving a speech and recap which all added up perfectly, and dropped it along with Triple H dropping his once Trips was on the apron.

Triple H got in the ring, took off his jacket, and voila, a sledgehammer appears from behind his back. The fight was on, the chase was on, DiBiase even slipped in a "OH SHIT!" whilst running down the hallway. Orton and Ted locked themselves in a locker room, barricading the door with a table and couch. Triple H smashed through the door with his shoulder, and had Legacy cornered. He hit Ted in the head with the handle of the sledgehammer rather convincingly, and then had Orton cornered. They threw in some comedy with Orton's "NOOO!" plea, and Trip's "YES!" response, with a wild swing/throw to the mirror as Orton fled the scene.

Hunter continued to give chase and smashed the window of Legacy's ride, then threw the sledgehammer at them as they peeled off, standing there fuming.



IDK about most of you, but seeing this side of Triple H is incredible. He's selling it almost better than Orton is selling the Voices role. The feud is believable on so many counts and is very personal.

I'd also like to take this time to resurrect a comment someone else made in regards to my Kane/Taker suggestion... yes, if the WWE knows it's worth money and can sell a feud and keep their word alive, they will resurrect something from an entire decade ago to sell the point.

Anyways, I haven't been this hyped over a storyline and action in the WWE since the Austin era. I'm also more and more glued every week.

And the fact that they did a backstage skit for once in a long time, to end Raw at that, is incredible. Can't wait 'til next week already :/.

 

[noumenon]

They're doing a great job. I loved how they left Cody last night...lmao.
They're going to have to let HHH get his hands on at least one of them eventually.
So far they're doing this thing right. Hopefully they don't go in the direction where they have them facing each other in mixed tag matches and all that bullshit before Mania.

 

[Colin Gimp]

Not really feeling it. They're insulting us. The only one who has been able to interfere with Triple H throughout his entire career pretty much(!) has been management. Now miraculously for a Wrestlemania storyline they break kayfabe and tell us Triple H is a Mcmahon. Oh well, instead of giving us great storyline's with Stephanie and Triple H they just bring it up right now out of thin air. I could care less to a high octane match between these two. Triple H is overrated and his matches are boring as hell. It's not like Randy's going to do anything new either. Yes he has a new found Charisma, butthat's about it. Seen this before and it wasn't good. yay! Legacy running from Trips is jure foreshadow. Triple H is going to have the upperhand this entire feud. Yes Randy will get strong words in and might get the upperhand for the minority of the weeks. But Wrestlemania is for the faces and Triple H already put Randy over at WM, he's not going to do it twice.

the WWE championship the highest caliber of championship in the WWE is put on a backburner for this "EPICSX FEUD". For our entire Wrestling life we've been told nothing's more prestigious than this title and it's not even the focus for the main event of Wrestlemania. Yes there's two world titles, but even JR has said the WWE championship is the big one.

Hate this feud.

Cena vs Edge is become shit fast too which sucks cause Edge is the boss

 

[kingovkings]

Yep yep This is a great start to the feud. The HHH/Legacy encounter last night was wicked. And i also agree that it was cool ending Raw with a backstage skit was awesome. It was good seeing trips play a different role, Rather than the stale one he has been treading water with for far so long IMO.
I also don't want to see them face off in stupid tag teams or shit before mania. I hope they have them playing cat and mouse for awhile and keep the build up going. Then let trips get his hands on Rhodes/Debiase at some point to send a message out to Orton. before he actually gets his hands on Orton.
But up to now it's a great start.

 

[EnterTamed]

so HHH is mad at orton for attacking his wife but HHH has given her the pedigree a few times, actually wrestled her a few times but we are supposed to believe its ok for HHH to do so and not Orton? if HHH is wrestling for vinces honor then ill be pissed cuz just 2 years ago diddnt they have several matches and he broke a sledgehammer over vinces back? my question is where is chris Jericho when you need him to talk about hypocrites!! then if rumors have been correct and Austin is the referee in this match his whole entire persona was practically based on the fact that he Hated the McMahons so is he gonna be all buddy buddy with HHH now? it practically gives away who will win at Mania and if Orton were smart wouldnt he just challenge Edge instead? He can challenge for either title, this way he gets out of facing HHH and blocks Cena's rematch clause...... I just dont like this feud , we saw it too much last year anyways.

 

[J]

They're doing a great job. I loved how they left Cody last night...lmao.
They're going to have to let HHH get his hands on at least one of them eventually.
So far they're doing this thing right. Hopefully they don't go in the direction where they have them facing each other in mixed tag matches and all that bullshit before Mania.

Haha I thought that too but if you watch the video again he sneaks in. He was the one driving the car lmao.

 

[noumenon]

LMAO...Jericho needs to be in EVERY match at Mania. Hypocrites and sycophants everywhere.....

 

[Luke Flywalker]

Followed up by another great ending on Raw! It was a bit weak with all of the cameras, but it was cool anyways. Triple H breaking into Orton's house and kicking his ass was cool. He shouldn't have given up for the cops the way he did. I would have liked to see a more believable arrest, but they sold it decently. This storyline is an A+ in my books right now. Very old-school era WWE .

 

[Great One]

I so fucking called that.

03/09/2009 06:36 PM Great One

Meh, I wanted Triple H to attack Orton in his house.

03/09/2009 06:36 PM Great One

That'd be sick.

THAT WAS FUCKING AWESOME! This = best feud of all time, holy shit. I was also gonna say how much of an Attiude Era feel it'd have if that happened.

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[Travis40]

That ending to Raw was the best in years imo. Someone needs to get a gif of Orton jumping over his couch :laugh:. I also found it funny how there are random people just hiding in Orton's house. Overall, it was a great segment, and really helps the fued. This will probably be MOTN at Mania.

 

[noumenon]

Fuck that... I want one of him flying through the window lol.

But seriously...they definately should have found someone a little better to play his wife...she was horrible. She had the exact same expression on the entire time.

 

[Luke Flywalker]

That wasn't Randy's wife?

 

[Travis40]

Fuck that... I want one of him flying through the window lol.

That was pretty badass too :08:

and RKO Legacy, that kinda looks like her, but IDK. I liked the way she just stood there screaming while HHH was knocking the door down.

 

[LKP]

^^^^^^ Guys that woman in the picture is his wife the other woman was a model.

The Triple H and Randy Orton segment on last night's RAW was actually filmed earlier that day in Florida, so it wasn't really Orton's home. The woman who played Orton's wife is Laura Croft, a former Playboy model who appeared in the 2008 July issue and is from the Jacksonville area. They actually filmed multiple takes of certain parts of the segment yesterday and what aired on TV was the final product. The cops involved in the skit were WWE developmental talents Matt Walsh and Michael Hutter.

 

[LegendKiller0123]

The intensity and emotion in this feud is second to none...

The horrible segment airing this past week that was a bad rip off of Austin/Pillman was just crap and made it lose momentum for me but not for the fans that bought into it...

This match will deliver... And this feud is gaining HELLISH steam rolling into The Grandaddy of them All