With Orton in the twilight of his career, the RKO remains as over as ever. On an episode of RAW in July 2010, Evan Bourne went for his finisher, a shooting star press, but Orton caught him perfectly with an RKO. However, this wasn't the best of Orton's catching RKO's, as that honour goes to Evan Bourne. One of the more brutal RKOs came in Orton's No Holds Barred match with Christian at SummerSlam 2011, where he caught his opponent mid-air and landed on some steel steps. The 31st iteration of the show would end up being quite a night for Rollins, but Orton would walk away with the win after the incredible counter. Perhaps the most memorable WrestleMania example is the instantly GIF-able Curb Stomp into RKO on Seth Rollins. Taker went for a chokeslam but Orton very smoothly countered it into his own finisher, almost ending the Deadman's WrestleMania undefeated streak. Orton's RKO on The Undertaker at WrestleMania 21 was fantastic in execution as it also provided a terrific near-fall. There is a plethora of great RKOs to choose from, so it is worth going over some of the best that Randy Orton has pulled off. Randy Orton would go on to perfect the move and thus, the RKO was born. He first used a cutter in a match with The Hurricane on RAW in 2004, although he hadn't quite got the execution down just yet. Orton's first finishing move wasn't even the RKO, as he begun his career using a combination of a full nelson slam and a move later popularised by MVP, which he dubbed the 'Playmaker'. The RKO is perhaps best described as a blend between a cutter and a stunner, with an extra jump into the move that demonstrates Orton's athleticism. Other classic examples of the move include Diamond Dallas Page's 'Diamond Cutter' and Steve Austin's famous 'Stone Cold Stunner'. Laurinaitis claims he came up with the move in 1987, when Barry Windham said to him, "Why don’t you do a front face neckbreaker as a move?" WWE officially claims that the RKO, or at least the first variation of it, was invented by none other than John Laurinaitis who called it the 'Ace Crusher'.
In wrestling, it is hard to correctly credit someone with inventing a wrestling move as there are so many variations of almost every hold imaginable.
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