My thoughts exactly, it's been a while since WWE put out a huge shock, nobody in the world buys Orton winning tonight.
Orton over Edge.
Why shock people just to shock them, or just to make a tiny percentage of your audience 'look dumb', with no thought about how it effects business? Nobody buys Orton winning tonight because nobody buys Orton as WWE Champion. Even if Orton's behavior was common knowledge, and it isn't unless you go online so I'm thinking maybe 10%, if that, of WWE fans have any idea what Orton did, it wouldn't make much difference of their opinion of Orton's chances to win the belt because they don't exactly have a high opinion of him to begin with and don't think him WWE Title material anyway.
If someone is going to play heel champion, it'll likely be Edge, because he's a proven commodity as far as being a strong heel champion and he gets a consistent heel reaction.
Even assuming the Orton hotel deal is a work, and why someone would hope it is just so that a few thousand people can be fooled is beyond me, Edge being the heel champion makes more storyline sense anyway. He's got established issues and history with all three of other participants.
You misunderstand me, I don't mean that they should shock people just for the sake of it, that era of Russo booking is long over, i'm just saying that they haven't done it in a while.
I'd be very interested to see what the figure of casual fans with Internet access is, people keep throwing percentages around, but i'm sure it has to be more than ten percent.
This is all irrelivent, Cena will win.