Randy Orton recently celebrated his 20th anniversary with WWE and throughout the course of his run with the company he’s put a number of opponents down with the punt kick.
Eventually Orton was banned from using the move and former WWE writer Matt McCarthy noted on the Universal Wrestling Podcast that The Viper continuously questioned why he couldn’t use the move.
“The feeling was if he does it as a shoot, he’s kicking someone full-blast in the head and we can’t do that. If he works it, it looks awful and we can’t do that. So now Randy doesn’t get to do his punt kick at all. And for months after this, any time you brought any creative to The Apex Predator, he would look at it and go, ‘So we can do this but I can’t do my punt kick?”
McCarthy also shared a story about Randy Orton questioning why Kane was allowed to threaten his father, but he wasn’t allowed to do the punt during a script reading.
“I remember that time specifically he’s laying on the floor reading the script and I’m just squatted down. He goes, ‘So he can talk about killing my dad but I can’t use my punt kick?’ I looked at him, I go, ‘Randy, I have no answers for you, okay? This is what we’re doing tonight.’”
Even though the move was banned initially Orton has pulled it out from time to time when it’s needed.
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