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#3 Randy Orton shoots fireworks at fellow WWE Superstars

Randy Orton will go down as one of the most controversial Superstars in the history of WWE. His early days in WWE were marred with backstage incidents that showed he had serious attitude issues. In a shoot interview, former WWE Superstar Maria Kanellis recalled an incident that saw Orton shooting fireworks at her, Carlito, and Umaga. Kanellis stated that it was one of the scariest moments of her life and that she was scared that something bad would happen.

“I was in the car with Umaga and Carlito and all of a sudden Randy decides to start shooting fireworks at us and let me just say, that was one of the scariest moments of my life because I was sure, something’s going to happen, there’s going to be a little thing of gas somewhere and the whole [car] is going to blow up,” Maria Kanellis recalled.

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Randy Orton is still a mainstay in WWE, all these years later

Randy Orton has done it all in WWE and is a 14-time World Champion. He has openly acknowledged his questionable behavior when he was a young gun, and it's safe to say that he rubbed a lot of people the wrong way back then. Orton is a sure-fire future WWE Hall of Famer but certainly wasn't the most ideal guy in the locker room at one time.

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