Former WWE Creative Team Member Says Randy Orton Is Being Held Back

Former WWE creative team member John Piermarini says that WWE is restricting what Randy Orton can say or do on television. In an interview with Torch Talk and Wade Keller, he spoke about the situation. Here's what he said: "Randy Orton would have been the perfect adversary for "Stone Cold" Steve Austin in the Attitude Era. I think he would have worked great there. I think he can work now, I just think Randy Orton is almost - the way we wanted to do it was, "Look, the kids have got John Cena and the 18-year-olds have Randy Orton." The thing is, what really made Stone Cold work was Stone Cold did things you wanted to do but you never could. You almost lived through Stone Cold. Randy - and it's not his fault because it's us not giving it to him - but Randy doesn't have the chance to do that. Randy has done amazing with his character and I'm amazed with Randy almost every single week. I wish we gave him more to work with to really sort of get him into that creative sort of bad-ass yet PG Stone Cold. By no means do we want to make him Stone Cold Steve Austin, but that's what made Stone Cold cool was doing those things, driving the beer truck. I wish they would give him things to do like that." Bob's Opinion: If they are actually holding him back, then I would be very interested in seeing his full potential!