Tommaso Ciampa attempts RKO on AEW's Kyle Fletcher in St. Louis

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For the past couple years of his WWE run, Tommaso Ciampa and his friend and #DIY training partner Johnny Gargano were running around backstage trying to RKO Randy Orton “out of nowhere”. They made social media videos around the idea (and at one point merged them with their classic NXT bit built on Robert Roode’s “Glorious” theme music), but then early this year Ciampa’s contact expired and he left WWE for AEW. Tony Khan’s company doesn’t employ Gargano or Orton. But with AEW in Randy’s hometown of St. Louis, Missouri for last night’s Fright Night live Dynamite and Collision taping, Ciampa went Viper hunting. He didn’t find him of course. But AEW does have a Protostar on the roster that gets compared to Orton often… Kyle Fletcher speaks on comparisons fans have made between himself and Randy Orton: “I think when I did the head shave and the character change, whatever you want to call it, it was like, okay, I have to make my look stand out. I have to change things up from what I was doing… pic.twitter.com/bP1LorlHhI — WrestlePurists (@WrestlePurists) September 12, 2025 So when the Sicilian Psychopath came across a strapping man with a bald head and full left arm sleeve in the trainer’s room, he didn’t check the right arm for skulls. He struck… OUTOFNOWHERE! And he got the same results he was getting in WWE, but with a different well-built, clean-shaven, heavily-inked dude wondering what’s going on… View this post on Instagram You know what they say, Tommaso. It’s a never say never business. You’ll RKO Randy someday… or at least someone who generally resembles him!