5 things that must happen before WrestleMania

#4 The rebirth of The Viper of 2009

Randy Orton is at his best as a heel

Ever since his return from his long injury layoff in 2015-16, Randy Orton has been a shadow of a performer he was during his prime years between 2008 and 2015. As a matter of fact, 2017 can easily be regarded as the worst year of Orton's 15 year long WWE career, with his matches against Bray Wyatt and Jinder Mahal regarded as the worst matches of the year. He needs a change or renewal of his energy and passion in the ring, and what better way to do that with the much-needed return of The Viper from 2009.

It is clear that Orton is a far more convincing bad guy than he is a babyface. Some of the best work of his career, which include his rivalry against HHH and John Cena in 2008-09, had Orton taking the role of the sadistic villain who just loved to hurt people. Since his rivalry with Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn, Orton has shown some glimpses of that heartless, cold-blooded Viper, and his recent RKO out of nowhere has brought some fresh air to his character, but Orton needs a full-fledged embrace of the dark side to again become relevant in WWE. He is on course to a clash with Bobby Roode at 'Mania. With Roode's 'Glorious' character still over with the fans, it is time for Randy to take a trip down memory lane and become the Viper that he was in 2009.