Randy Orton and John Cena are future members of the WWE Hall of Fame that faced each other again and again in a rivalry that lasted more than a decade. After Cena announced his imminent withdrawal from the WWE, Orton spoke about the fact of having learned of the removal plans of his former rival, as well as the possibility of one more fight in his iconic rivalry in an episode of “What do You Wanna Talk About?” With Cody Rhodes.
Orton said he wants “100%” to get on the ring with dinner and that he was happy to see him in person before his retirement speech in Money in the Bank.
“Towards the end of the conversation I told him: 'Hey, what do you think (about a fight)?'” Said Orton. “I had no idea that (dinner withdraws), for what I know, it will be here as long as his body allows it. But, of course, he has other things in progress, and this is my life. So I take off my hat before him for doing what is given to Hollywood. If I could, I would do it, but I have other priorities. That requires much and I don't think I have what I say. And he told me: 'Randy, you know that I have never launched anything, I always do the best I can with what they give me', and I said: 'Man, that is me. “
Orton said Cena told him that he would be open to a more fight if “the creative team came up.”
One more fight?
Orton told Rhodes that he asked John Cena what he was going to treat his speech at Money in the Bank; Dinner told Orton “wait and see”, what Orton described as “typical of John.” Orton acknowledged that he knows that some fans thought that their disputes with dinner lasted too long, or that they fought with each other too many times. However, he believes that enough time has spent since they were together in the ring so that fans appreciate it.
“I love working with him and having a couple of televisions, simply to ride it and do something special,” he said. “Because no matter how much we face in the past, almost to the point where people were fed up with that, when people look back and think about that, he says: 'Oh. Orton, dinner. Go. It was an incredible rivalry', and have that reminiscence, that concept of nostalgia … we could go out and have fun a little and destroy the place.”
Orton and Cena have fought 22 individual televised fighting from November 2005 to February 2017; 12 of those fighting (more than half) were played by a world championship. Dinner has an advantage of 13-8 in the victory column (a fight ended without result), but five of the dinner victories were due to disqualification, compared to only two of Orton. If the fighting is eliminated with late disqualification, the margin becomes narrower, with eight victories for dinner and six for Orton.
