AEW star says Randy Orton split in WWE was ‘final straw’ before exit
AEW’s Cash Wheeler reflected on The Revival’s short-lived alliance with Randy Orton in WWE.
Wheeler discussed WWE splitting up The Revival from Orton in an interview with LNG Productions. The tag team and Orton were placed on separate brands after working together in August 2019, and creative frustrations reached its peak. And that was the ‘final straw’ to propel their decision to request for their release.
“That’s the one I miss the most as far as what could have been. I thought that we really could do something cool with him, and Randy was a big proponent of pushing for it.”
“I’ve said before – I think I’ve said on record before, but if not, here we go – I think that was the final straw for us when we knew we wanted to ask for our release, was when they drafted us to SmackDown and Randy to Raw at that point.”
“I think he’d just lost to Kofi or something along those lines but we still thought we were gonna get a chance to do stuff together. And we knew if they killed that, that they didn’t really have any expectations or plans for us.”
“And when they drafted us to separate shows, we were like, ‘Alright yeah, I think that the writing’s on the wall here, as far as what our ceiling is ever gonna be.’”
“I’ve never regretted that decision ever, even for a second.”
“But I do hate that we didn’t get to do more with Randy, because even today he’s still such a good friend and we still stay in contact. He’s such a funny guy. I wish that we could have done more.”
Following Wheeler and Dax Harwood’s WWE release they debuted on AEW as FTR during an edition of Dynamite. The three time AEW Tag Team Champions lost the titles to Cope and Christian Cage at Double or Nothing in May.
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