The Complete History of the WWE Championship - Part 15

Randy Orton (October 4, 2009 - October 25, 2009)

RKO: Defeated John Cena inside Hell in a Cell

The Hell in a Cell match.

That was the host of Randy Orton's fifth WWE Championship win. He was pitted against long time rival John Cena in the latest bout of their saga.

In truth, it was a largely unmemorable encounter and not a patch on Orton's Cell encounter with The Undertaker four years earlier at Armageddon 2005.

Despite the blandness of the contest, it was a significant win for Orton who defeated WWE's top Superstar clean as a whistle with his brutal punt kick. However, the long-term booking was less of a stature enhancer for Orton, His title win here appeared to exist to give Cena another Championship victory later that month.

RKO was champion again. However, his reign was to be as short lived as Cena's previous title run was.

He defended the strap versus Cena once more in an Iron Man match at Bragging Rights on October 25, 2009. Orton took a 4-3 lead when he electrocuted Cena with the stage lighting grid, but eventually succumbed 6-5 when he submitted to the STF, with just six seconds left on the clock.