So I had this idea about Kane and Orton. Obviously it looks like this is more lazy, tedious build to a fight at WM, but wouldn't it be nice if it wasn't? We've had a run out by each followed by a finisher delivery and a one liner like they're bloody James Bond ("welcome back" etc), but let's say this didn't go the obvious way (what follows is the kind of fannish fantasy booking I almost never indulge in, but I think it's good). So a match is booked between them on, say, Raw and Primo and Epico run in to attack Kane for his attack after that three way tag match last week. But instead Orton helps Kane fight them off, effectively making them a team. But rather than an ordinary team, being ostensibly a pair of unhinged madmen (I know Randy doesn't have and has never had a character, but he's got a song that suggests it) they're not shy of brawling with each other (their recent attacks on each other being more like displays of their unhingedness than the start of a feud). It wouldn't be that they don't get on as a team, but they're not afraid to twat each other (more like the Austin/Undertaker tagteam than the Cena/Otunga one, though still a bit unlike anything we've had before in a team).
So now there's no MitB ladder match at WM according to the latest rumour, maybe a tag title ladder match instead (maybe even revisit the past glory and have a TLC match) between Orton/Kane, Prime/Epico and maybe Kingston/Truth (3 out of 6 highfliers means there could be enough for the excitement you'd expect; after all, out of the Hardyz, E&C and the Dudleys, only around 50% were really high flying there either). The match ends with Orton and Kane on either side of the ladder, meaning certain victory for their team, but one pushes the other off and takes the belts. The other repays it by doing their finisher on their team mate, followed by that other's theme playing instead and mad smiling at each other between the ramp and ring.
Then Kane/Orton are the new absolutely unstoppable tag team for a few months; eventually they drop the titles in a three way tag team match where one opposing team pins the other, and they get disqualified intentionally in the rematch to instead carry on feuding with each other properly. The decider match could become the number 1 contender match as well; one wins and goes on to become champion, the other gets drafted to the other show and becomes champion (logically they're both main event talents, where Kane ought to be World Champ and Orton's due it again eventually because he's golden boy). They might have a champion vs champion streetfight on a Raw that ends in a double countout, ending their connection and that would be the Kane/Orton saga - a dominant tag team of unhinged men who go on the become world champs each. It's the kind of thing that's not been done before, and would be a decent story I think. Like I said, it's fantasy booking but I think it might be for good long term story. Better than them just having a match at Mania where Orton inevitably goes over.
