The main event of this week’s episode of Raw saw the United States Champion Rey Mysterio competing in a 6 man tag match. However, latest report reveals that he wasn’t originally slated to be competing during the bout.
According to reports from Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the original plans were for Randy Orton to team up with Humberto Carrillo and Ricochet to compete against the OC.
The idea was for Mysterio to interfere and help the faces in picking up a win but Mr. McMahon wanted The Viper to deliver an RKO out of nowhere to AJ Styles.
The Boss felt that Styles needed to be coming off a pin for this to work so he changed the plans at the producers’ meetings on the day of the event. This resulted in Orton deciding not to team with Ricochet and Carrillo.
Ricochet ended up taking the pin in the match because the Boss did not want Mysterio to be in the position. Humberto was likely exempted because he has been losing most of his matches since debuting on the brand in October.
No word yet on where this storyline is headed but it’s likely that we’ll see a match between Randy Orton and AJ Styles soon, presumably at the upcoming TLC PPV.
