Randy Orton Discusses His Difficult Behavior in Early WWE Career

During his appearance on Logan Paul’s podcast, Randy Orton reflected on his early attitude issues in his WWE career:

“That was my armor. I was, an asshole I think because I wanted people to respect me. I don’t know. I just know that I grew out of that phase. I thank God that I did. But I see footage that, I didn’t know the camera was rolling, maybe at that autograph signing and there’s an interaction with a fan and it’s picked up. Then now they’re doing this doc on A&E that they just kind of are finishing up and I’ve seen some of this footage from 10-15 years ago and I’m like, ‘Oh my God. That’s horrible,’ But that’s just kind of who I was.”

“It wasn’t coming from a place of confidence. I think it was coming from a place of…it was my armor, man. That I was an asshole and then maybe I would get respect that way. Maybe it was a little bit of fear and I took it as respect. Either way I was fine with it. But luckily, I was given a second, third, fourth chance from Vince McMahon coming up when I would get in trouble or I would have to get sent away for a couple months or I would have to get fined a second or third time. I am so blessed. I just had the right guys in there to yank my ass straight and make sure that I was walking the straight line the times that I did veer off.”