Randy Orton would like to buy the beginner of the RKO Outta Nowhere trend a steak dinner.
In the early 2010s, a trend took over the internet where Randy Orton would be edited into videos, usually of people falling, hitting an RKO 'outta nowhere'. The trend took on, and the phrase is uttered almost every time Orton hits his finishing move.
While speaking to Billboard, Randy was asked about the tend, with Orton noting he would like to buy the person who began the trend a steak dinner.
"Yeah, I just look at it like I’m lucky. Right place, right time. I had a great fans. I met Logan Paul for the first time, and it’s funny because he was a wrestling fan, but I don’t think he was following it quite as much — but he was aware of what the “RKO” was. That’s what he told me when I first met him, and I thought that was pretty funny. But to your point, it’s kind of like transcended wrestling and me and became a thing of its own. I think that was the [era of the] Vine app, and the kids started editing videos of me RKO’ing everybody. Whether it was maybe a toddler that fell over or someone at the alter getting married, anyone taking a bump out there, they’d put a little Randy Orton RKO out of nowhere, and it became a thing. I benefitted from it only because it made people more aware of who I was as a WWE wrestler. Whoever started that trend, man, I would love to buy them a steak dinner. [Laughs.]"
Elsewhere in the same interview, Randy would speak about pushing for a match with Joe Hendry at WrestleMania 41. You can read more about that here.
