10 on-screen wrestling couples that you forgot existed

AJ Styles & Mickie James/ Stacey Keibler & Randy Orton.
AJ Styles & Mickie James/ Stacey Keibler & Randy Orton.

#9. Randy Orton and Stacy Keibler

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It's easy to forget that this angle ever happened as this was part of WWE's unsatisfactory face run for Randy Orton. The Apex Predator was destined for unrivaled villainry as a young hotshot but WWE took a risk that didn't yield the desired outcome.

The angle between Stacy Keibler and Orton kicked off in February 2005 and it ended a month later in March after WWE decided to push Orton in a feud against The Undertaker.

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WWE used Keibler to turn Orton heel again and it was wonderfully done when you look back at it. Orton's stint as a babyface wasn't going anywhere and WWE needed to get the heat back on the Legend Killer.

It was the episode of RAW on March 21st in which Orton kissed Keibler in the ring before laying her out with the RKO, thus cementing his heel turn.

The relationship between Keibler and Orton was appealing while it lasted but the endgame was always to get Orton back to being a bad guy and that was the right decision to make.

The couple looked pretty good together on TV for as long as they were together and it's a shame that it didn't go on for longer.

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