"The business that you're leading is terrible, and he is gonna save the fucking business!"

Randy Orton: "So, St. Louis, Missouri, [cheers], what do you wanna talk about? Now it's no secret that this is my hometown. [cheers] I was raised here from a very young man, I still call St. Louis home, and the next time you see me in this arena, I am going to have number 15 firmly planted around my waist! [cheers] But make no mistake about it, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not doing this for each and every one of you, no no no no. I am doing this for me, I am doing this for my family, and I am doing this for my real home, which isn't St. Louis, Missouri; it's the 1-2-3-4-5-6 people in this front row [he points at a group of people in the front row], that's who I'm doing this for. At WrestleMania 42, I am going to walk out of Vegas with the WWE Undisputed Championship around my waist -- hell, I might be in the mood to have it slung over my shoulder -- but the fact of the matter is, Cody Rhodes -- whether he walks, crawls, is carried, gurneyed, stretchered out of Vegas -- it doesn't matter, because Cody Rhodes is going home from WrestleMania 42 empty-freakin-handed!

Cody gave me this blessing, Cody gave me this green light. It's not personal between Cody and I. He said I could be the Viper! He said I could do what I needed to do, be who I needed to be, to be the best version of myself. Cody said I could listen to the voices, and he had no problem of it. But Cody, I saw the Voices are talking to you too. I saw you at Monday Night Raw. I saw you in the Garden. I saw you in the ring with the one and only Stephanie McMahon. And she was not lying to you, no, no, no, when she said that you could not beat me, she was not lying to you! And the voices in your head are saying the exact same thing, and I know what they are saying, that you cannot beat me! Because Cody Rhodes, you are not a killer. What you have woken inside of me, there's no putting back to bed!

[Cody Rhodes makes his entrance and after a brief stare down, the two men brawl in the ring. Once Rhodes has Orton beaten down by the turnbuckle, he turns into a low-blow punt and beat-down from Pat McAfee]

Pat McAfee: "The Rams left town. The Blues aren't gonna make the playoffs. The Cardinals are ass! And Randy Orton said this isn't his home anymore. It's a tough night in St. Louis! [he points at Nick Aldis, who has run down the ramp with security] Hey, foreign Adam Pearce! Shut up! [to Orton, who has a steel chair in his hand] Randy! [Orton hits Rhodes with the chair] Hey! Doofuses! You might wonder why I'm here! Why I just kicked Cody Rhodes directly in the balls. About a month ago, I was doing a Q&A, and I was asked when I was gonna return to the WWE. And I said that I thought the business had passed me by. This business that I loved since I was a kid, I could no longer watch, I thought it was absolute shit! Randy called me. He said, 'the business didn't pass you by; it's just gone in a direction that none of us like.' And I thought to myself 'who's us, Randy Orton'? And he talked about the forgotten WWE fan. The Attitude Era fan. The one who woke up thinking to themselves 'What? What? What? What?' [the crowd joins in with the 'What?' chants] The ones who walked around and said 'if ya smell!' The fans that put this company on their back to launch it into the multi-billion world Universe that it is now, we've been forgotten about! Why, when I turn on WWE TV, do I have to watch two 5'5 guys do a 45-minute Iron Man Match ten weeks straight for no rhyme or reason when Randy Orton is around? [crowd cheers] Why do I turn on Netflix, and I see all of Gorilla sucking themselves episode, after episode, after episode, when Randy Orton is around? Tickets to WrestleMania are still somehow available when Randy Orton is around! And SmackDown, fresh off the worst-rated episode of all time, has a puppet for a champion! A man that represents everything that we hate! Kick his ass, Randy! Kill him! Yeah! What I'm saying is, Cody, I'm the one on the phone telling Randy Orton he needs to kill everything! And it's not just for the 15th world title. It's because the business that you're leading is terrible! And he is gonna save the fucking business!"