Randy Orton pitches teaming up with Eladio Carrión.
Latin Grammy Award winner Eladio Carrión recently sparked some buzz in the wrestling world when he shared his music video for "RKO", which featured a cameo appearance by WWE star Randy Orton. Carrión then appeared on the January 26 episode of WWE SmackDown and introduced Orton.
In a SmackDown Exclusive, Randy Orton discussed being in Carrión's music video.
"I was in your music video, man. There’s not a things that I’ve never at least done once. Being in a rapper’s music video was one of the things. I always saw some of the guys, they had a spot like Booker T was with Bad Bunny. Cena, they’ll drop his name every once in a while. This dude comes out with a song named ‘RKO’, and then he wants me in the music video? [He clasps hands with Eladio] This is my dog. That’s how we met. We shot that [video]. Man, I was in my gear, it was like 40 degrees, my nipples were hard, I was just shivering, I had goosebumps. But it was great, it was worth it, and I love the finished product, man. It was awesome," Orton said.
Carrión then noted that he had fun in the WWE ring. Orton replied by describing how they showed each other respect by stepping into each other's worlds. He also told Carrión that he hoped he would come back to WWE.
Randy Orton: We had a little back and forth out there. I came into his world, showed him respect, showed him some love, and now here he is in my world, doing the same thing, showing us, everybody, all the superstars love and respect. There’s not a better mixture when it comes to people shows respect than to come out of their comfort zone, and that’s what he’s done. I hope you come back and do this again.
Eladio Carrión: I hope they bring me back.
Cathy Kelley later joked that Carrión has to get in the ring, and he responded by saying that he has to get a name first. Orton told him that his name was fine, and they would work on a signature move. He then suggested potentially teaming up and wrestling together.
RO: You got a pretty badass name. Don’t touch the name. We’ll work on the move. What do you think, you and me versus like Logan and Jake Paul at WrestleMania or some shit like that? You know what I mean?
EC: We could do that. We could run that any day.
RO: I ain’t playing for the camera. I’m dead-ass serious.
Orton later joked that he would train Carrión for a potential match. As of this writing, there is no word on whether Carrión will actually wrestle a match at some point.
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