Randy Orton On If Bray Wyatt Would Succeed As World Champion And More

WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champion and Wyatt Family member Randy Orton recently spoke to Sports Illustrated about working with Bray Wyatt, his role on “Shooter” and more. You can check out the full interview here along with some highlights below.

If Bray Wyatt is World Championship material: “He can be a world champion, he just hasn’t had the opportunity yet,” said Orton. “His first title win was at TLC with me. It doesn’t hurt him to not be on top, so to speak, but on the other end of it, the Wyatt Family, in many different situations, has been on top, regardless of not having a title. I feel like his character could do both, and we just haven’t seen it yet. If Bray was on top with the gold around his waist as world champion, that would be a great thing and it would be great for him, too. There is a lot of experience he still needs to gain, and he can’t really get that experience unless he’s in that position. I have all the confidence in him to succeed in that position.”

Chris Jericho’s altercation with Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam: “Basically, what happened is Jericho saw what was going on in the ring and wanted answers as to whether my best interests were in mind as far as my health and safety. I had my family there, sitting front row, and Chris knew that, as well. He was just coming up to check on his boy, that’s what it boiled down to, and I think that’s awesome.”

“You hear all these things about how they were going to fight, but I don’t think Jericho wanted to fight Brock, I’m just going to throw that out there. I think he was coming up to just make sure everything was cool. It’s unfortunate that in that small space, with the dozen bodies in there, somehow that leaked and everybody knew about it. That’s very unfortunate. It was blown way out of proportion, and Jericho just wanted to check on one of his fellow boys in the locker room.”