Maven Says The RKO Is An Easy Move To Take And He Barely Felt It, Calls Randy Orton ‘Effortless’

Maven talks about taking the RKO from Randy Orton.

The RKO is one of the most popular WWE finishing moves of all time. Randy Orton is famous for being able to hit the move out of virtually any position from anywhere inside the squared circle or outside of it. 

Maven has been on the receiving end of quite a few RKOs from “The Legend Killer” and in a new video where he ranks the painfulness of finishing maneuvers, he says that Randy Orton’s finisher is one of the easiest he’s ever taken and praised Randy for his professionalism. 

“For me, the RKO is one of those finishers that is iconic, but how is it to take? Randy is so effortless, once he jumps to take flight, once you see him jumping, you’d simply guide his body, put your arms underneath his back to help him with height, elevation, [and] floating in the air, then it’s a simple face bump,” said Maven. “Unlike the ones with the back bump, this is one of the few finishers where you’re actually taking a face bump… It’s a finisher that helped springboard his career to the Superstar he is today. 

“I don’t know how it would be to take from someone else. I never took something similar like A Diamond Cutter from DDP, but I’ve probably taken 50 RKOs between working on top televised shows and working non-televised shows,” he continued. “For that reason, I put it in the ‘Barely Feel It’ category. Randy is a professional. Randy, again, to me, is on the Mount Rushmore. When you’re on Mount Rushmore, you know how to make your finisher look devastating while remaining safe the entire time.” 

Elsewhere in this video, Maven ranked the finishing move of Randy Orton’s Evolution cohort, Batista. Suffice it to say that Maven had completely different feelings in regard to the Batista Bomb. Read more here. 

Maven also recently revealed that he was slated to return to WWE in 2020, the same year Batista was slated to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Learn how COVID impacted Maven’s plans at this link.

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