Pat McAfee revealed as Randy Orton’s mystery caller on WWE SmackDown
Pat McAfee was the mystery guy.
The mystery caller reveal kicked off Friday’s SmackDown. Cody Rhodes didn’t waste time coming to the ring and attacking Randy Orton. However, he was quickly cut off by McAfee, who entered the ring and gave Rhodes a low blow. Orton attacked Rhodes with a steel chair as McAfee cut a promo revealing that he has been the one telling Orton to kill everything in sight.
McAfee explained his actions, saying that the business Rhodes leads now is terrible and Orton was “gonna save the f****** business,” recalling the peak of the Attitude era fondly while dismissing the current business. He complained about WWE programming, asking the crowd why he had to watch “two 5’5 guys do a 45 minute Iron Man match ten weeks straight for no rhyme or reason” and also brought up WrestleMania tickets still being on sale and SmackDown’s “worst rated episode of all time.”
The segment ended with McAfee and Orton leaving together as WWE officials checked on a battered Rhodes.
Bryan Alvarez is reporting that he had heard McAfee as a possible mystery man candidate, though the assumpion was that it wasn’t happening.
“Pat McAfee as Orton’s mystery man was the guy I hinted at on WOL earlier in the week, but the feeling at the time was that it had fallen through. Apparently, it had not,” he writes.
Since his heel turn following Elimination Chamber, Orton had been seen talking on the phone with someone that seemed to enable him to tap into his darker intentions, attacking Matt Cardona after he initially seemed interested in apologizing. During the week, it was confirmed that the mystery person would be heading to SmackDown on Friday.
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