6 Wrestlers who turned down AEW contracts 

#4 Randy Orton

The Viper had an offer from AEW but stayed with WWE (Pic Source: WWE)

If a specific wrestler could say that he was Mr. WWE, it would be Randy Orton. He has spent his entire wrestling career in WWE and had recently re-signed with the company. But believe it or not, there was a possibility that he could have jumped ship to AEW.

While Randy Orton did sign with WWE last year, there was a great deal of speculation that his future could be in AEW. Of course, this seemed unfathomable, but Orton himself was laying the seeds of doubts in fans' minds with social media posts like these:

While Randy Orton himself has never actually confirmed whether AEW made the offer, rumors were flying around that he re-signed with WWE because the AEW deal offered was less than Jericho.

Adding fuel to this fire, while responding to Randy Orton on Twitter over a separate issue, Tony Khan alluded to the fact that The Viper used AEW as leverage to get a better WWE Contract.

I thought you only tagged me in your posts when you were grasping for leverage. That article’s over a year old + is about baseless claims made about my dad years ago. That’s the best you can do, nothing. Meanwhile in the time since that was written, you used the N word on twitch.

— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) November 19, 2019

Since then, Randy Orton is currently enjoying a more significant presence on WWE RAW and is just off the heels of a feud with Edge. But Orton in AEW would have certainly been an exciting chapter.