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#3 Plans for RAW Superstar Randy Orton after he wins the WWE Championship

As reported previously, there is a strong chance that Randy Orton may walk out of WWE Clash of Champions as the next WWE Champion. While the long-term plan is for him to have a WWE Championship match against Edge at WrestleMania, he will likely feud with RAW's newest acquisition, Keith Lee first.

Keith Lee defeated Randy Orton clean at Payback. While Orton won the triple threat match to become the number one contender for the WWE Championship on RAW, he did so by pinning Seth Rollins and not Keith Lee, thus protecting The Limitless One.

Here is what Dave Meltzer has stated about a possible feud between Randy Orton and RAW Superstar Keith Lee:

"The only upset was Keith Lee's quick win over Orton, and I thought that result just made sense. I think that the one thing is that, to me, as soon as I saw that result, I was like, 'Orton is winning the title from Drew McIntyre after all. I don't know that, but that was the immediate conclusion I came to. And they are setting up for Orton vs. Keith Lee title matches as well. So, if Orton is going to win the title, him losing to Keith Lee, I wouldn't say it was a no-brainer; it's WWE, they could have easily not done it, but they did it, and it wasn't a great match at all, you know six minutes and just a pin out of nowhere but just him winning, from a storyline standpoint, everything like that and a star-creating standpoint, it was a good move."