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The issue with Clash of Champions 2020 was that a lot of the matches were predictable for someone that's been watching the product for any length of time. This was certainly not the case with the WWE Championship match with Drew McIntyre and Randy Orton.
They are two behemoths that have tussled prior to Clash of Champions 2020 but what made the clash for the WWE Championship this weekend unique is that Drew McIntyre and Randy Orton wrestled in an ambulance match. So, why did WWE choose to not have Randy Orton win the title on yet another occasion especially if you consider that Drew McIntyre won their previous encounter at SummerSlam 2020 as well?
Here are 5 possible reasons for Randy Orton's major loss to Drew McIntyre who remained the WWE Champion at WWE Clash of Champions 2020.
#5 Drew McIntyre needs the WWE Championship a lot more than Randy Orton does
Chances are, that if you were to ask someone who doesn't follow the current product, about the WWE Superstars that he/she likes, Randy Orton would be mentioned by this person. Drew McIntryre is slowly but surely building his legacy, and has been a great ambassador for the WWE Championship thus far, but one has to believe that there's a bit of time before he reaches the level that Randy Orton has.
Sure, Randy Orton is a proven draw, and to put the WWE Championship around his waist would have been a very safe move, and would have shaken the current product to its very core. But, if WWE wants to go all the way with Drew McIntyre, he has to seem like he is a 'legend killer' in his own right, which is what he proved at Clash of Champions 2020.
#4 A new cast for characters for the WWE Championship on (or maybe even from) WWE SmackDown following the Draft
One thing we know for sure is that starting with SmackDown and then going into RAW, we will see the WWE Draft where Drew McIntyre may just end up going to WWE SmackDown with the WWE Championship.
One has to remember that the WWE Championship was on SmackDown not very long ago and was carried by Brock Lesnar who won it from Kofi Kingston.
Sure, Drew McIntyre may be out of opponents on the RAW brand as we speak (although one has to think that Keith Lee vs. Drew McIntyre is far from done at this point), but there may be a whole host of opponents on SmackDown that want a taste of the WWE Championship. Drew McIntyre vs. AJ Styles would be a great feud, now that he is out of the current Intercontinental Championship picture, and even someone like The Fiend may decide that he wants a shot at the WWE Championship and not the WWE Universal Championship, as he would potentially have us believe.
#3 There's already a heel Champion on the other brand, so having Randy Orton win the WWE Championship would have probably undermined the current WWE Universal Champion
There is no doubt that Randy Orton would have made a fantastic WWE Champion but at the same time, one also has to remember that the Universal Champion Roman Reigns is midway into perhaps the best run of his entire career. To have Randy Orton become the WWE Champion on one brand, doing almost the same thing as Roman Reigns on the other, with a few subtle differences, would have just been overkill in every sense.
Roman Reigns, too, shows no remorse for those he loves, and this was amply evident in the main event at Clash of Champions 2020 where he defended the WWE Universal Championship against his cousin, Jey Uso. Randy Orton did much the same thing with Edge and then with Ric Flair not very long ago. Honestly, Randy Orton may just have done such a phenomenal job as a heel Champion that he would have outshone Roman Reigns.
#2 The sheer amount of time and effort that has been spent on Drew McIntyre as the current WWE Champion
Drew McIntyre is often described as the most unfortunate titleholder in the history of the WWE Championship, especially if you consider the sheer amount of time and effort that has been spent on him already. Brock Lesnar does not put over too many people clean, but he did so at WrestleMania after a very hard-hitting match against Drew McIntyre. Unfortunately, there were no crowds in attendance to share in Drew McIntyre's delight as he won the WWE Championship.
Plus, there is the question of giving the fans something to cheer about, with Drew McIntyre's win, especially if you consider how the main event match ended.
So much time and effort have gone into making Drew McIntyre seem like a legitimate Champion, that it seems only fair to have him carry the WWE Championship for a very long time. Maybe Brock Lesnar returns to WWE and challenges Drew McIntyre someday, wanting to exact his revenge? Speaking of which...
#1 To sell the effects of Randy Orton's past returning to haunt him again during the WWE Championship match
Randy Orton has been on a tear in the past few months reviving the Legend Killer gimmick that put him on the map so very long ago. Randy Orton had not only inflicted pain and punishment to Ric Flair but also Christian, Shawn Michaels, and The Big Show all of whom came back at Clash of Champions 2020 in the biggest way ever during the WWE Championship match.
All of these legends came back to WWE on this fateful occasion and all of them exacted revenge against Randy Orton. It was a great sight to see Randy Orton get his due for being such a vicious heel and to have him win, after all the punishment that he underwent, would have just undermined their appearances.
Randy Orton still has many good years left and there's no doubt at all that he is going to enter the WWE Hall of Fame at some point.
He will definitely be back in the WWE Championship picture again at some point.
