WWE wrestler Randy Orton reportedly forked over a thousand bucks to get someone to level his Elden Ring character for him
Randy Orton is a busy man with things to be doing. The once-upon-a-time youngest heavyweight champion in WWE history has, you know, half-nelsons to be practising, suplexes to be suplexing, and, um, ah, Montreal Screwjobs to attend to?
Okay, I don't know much about wrestling, but I do know a fair bit about Elden Ring, which makes me slightly disappointed that I wasn't the person that Mr Orton paid $1000 to powerlevel his character in the game. Because according to a recent stream from Insiderz TV (spotted by Kotaku), the wrestler got so impatient with Elden Ring's hard-going early hours that he decided he'd be better off just buying his way to a higher level. Can I do that the next time I'm banging my head against something difficult for a review? (I cannot).
According to Insiderz hosts Mansoor Al-Shehail and Brennan Williams—former members of WWE's Maximum Male Models wrestling stable—Orton revealed his love of Elden Ring to them before an episode of either Smackdown or RAW (Al-Shehail couldn't quite recall which), but confessed he'd been running into some difficulties in its early goings.
«Yeah no it's fucking hard,» Orton told the pair in Al-Shehail's recollection, «Uh, I paid a guy like a thousand bucks to give me, like, infinite runes so I could just level up to 100 right away… I couldn't deal with that bullshit so I just paid a guy to get me a bunch of runes.»
«People are gonna talk about that on Twitter,» said Al-Shehail, «and think that that's a fake rumour!»
«Out of all the rumours that sound fake,» answered Williams, «that is the realest one.»
You can see Al-Shehail's telling of the story in the clip below, and you can enjoy an exciting, artistic dramatisation of it on The Insiderz TikTok channel.
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