"I am not protecting Kevin Owens, I am trying protect you"

Randy Orton: "So, I've been doing everything I can to get my hands on Kevin Owens, [Mixed reactions] I'VE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING I CAN TO GET MY HANDS ON KEVIN OWENS AT CROWN JEWEL, but for some reason, Kevin Owens-- thank you, by the way, Brooklyn-- for some reason, [crowd cheers] Kevin Owens is off limits! Last week, I asked Nick Aldis for a match with Kevin Owens at Crown Jewel and what did Nick Aldis say? That's-- That's above my pay grade, brother. So, I think I know who I need to talk to. Who I need to talk to is back there, Triple H, PLEASE-- SIR-- COME ON DOWN, [Crowd cheers] BECAUSE... IF I DIDN'T KNOW ANY BETTER, I would swear to god that I thought you were PROTECTING Kevin Owens from me!" [Crowd boos]

[Triple H's music hits, cut to backstage of Triple H in gorilla position, them makes his entrance]

Triple H "I would have preferred not to do this out here, Randy, but... Since you can never seem to show up to work on time, which... [Crowd goes 'Ooh!'] We can talk about later. I guess we'll do this now."

Randy Orton: "Listen, I think everybody in this building knows you're protecting Kevin Owens from me. You know it, I know it, they know it, KEVIN knows it."

Triple H "I'm not protecting anyone, Randy, what I'm trying to do is do my job."

Randy Orton: "Listen, you gotta soft spot for the guy, I get it. He used to be likeable, hell, I used to like him. But you are protecting Kevin Owens, just admit it, H."

Triple H "I am not... Randy, the match is not gonna happen, it's not gonna happen."

Randy Orton: "Because you're protecting Kevin Owens."

Triple H "It's not gonna happen."

Randy Orton: "Because you're protecting Kevin Owens, just admit it."

Triple H "It is not gonna happen!" [Mild boos]

Randy Orton: "BECAUSE YOU ARE PROTECTING KEVIN OWENS, JUST ADMIT IT! Just admit it, H! Then we'd be cool and I'll do what I gotta do, but man--" [Triple H cuts him off]

Triple H: "I am not protecting Kevin Owens, I am trying protect you! [Crowd goes 'Ooh' and chants "RKO"] Look, I've known you since the day you walked in here. I've known Kevin Owens since the day he walked in here, Kevin-- wanted to be called 'The Prizefighter' when he walked in here, because it was only about business and that was true, right? He has never had a friend in this business no matter what he has said, no matter what he has been around, everybody that he was ever near, it was just... As long as he can take it weren't in his way, because the second they were in his way, he took 'em down, he never thought twice about it, it was all about business and you know what that's like. You do, but, for the first time ever and I don't know why, he let his guard down. He trusted you and he trusted Cody Rhodes. He trusted both of you, he let his guard down, I don't know if he sees the good person that he wants to be in Cody Rhodes and he sees the miserable prick in you that he doesn't want to be, [Crowd goes 'Ooh']

I don't know. But whatever it is, he likes you guys, he trusted you and, in his mind--Randy, you guys, for the first time ever, turned on him. [Mild boos] And I am telling you, when I spoke to him-- afterwards-- there is something disconnected in him. Something different in his eyes, he is not the same Kevin Owens... And, quite frankly, I don't want to put him in the ring with you."

Randy Orton: "So you're protecting me?"

Triple H "Randy... Take this with all due respect, you just came back after 18 months on the shelf, you didn't tear your ACL, you didn't blow your shoulder out, you had steel rods put in your back. Right? They told you that you were never gonna wrestle again, but yet, here you are and I just got you back. And buddy, I don't wanna see you go back on that shelf--" [Orton cuts off Triple H]

Randy Orton: "No, wait, no, wait."

Triple H "No, no, no, you listen to me, I don't wanna see you go back on that shelf, maybe permanently! You understand what I'm sayin'?" [Orton nods no]

Randy Orton: "So, Hunter, that's not gonna happen. That's not gonna happen and I need you to stop--stop all of this right there, I didn't ask Paul Levesque to come out to this ring, [Crowd goes 'Ooh'] I didn't ask the COO of the multi-billion dollar company wearin' a suit, sans that tie, come out to this ring, I wanted the 'Cerebral Assassin'... [Crowd cheers] 'The Game', the guy that wore a leather jacket to the ring, and-- brought a sledgehammer everywhere he went, a guy who went to my home and knocked down my front door with a sledgehammer, threw me out my own dining room window, proceeded to BEAT THE HELL OUTTA ME out of my miserable prick ass, right there, on my own front lawn! [Note 1] THAT'S WHO I WANT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS RING, right now, here me out. Because, what would you do if you were in my shoes? What would you do?! You wouldn't sit back and let it slide.

Listen, this isn't-- this isn't the old Randy Orton being impulsive, this is me, talking to you, man to man, I know what's at stake, regarding my health, in my career, more than ANYBODY! Just like, more than anybody, you know what it's like to have ALL of this, taken away from you like [snaps fingers] THAT! [Mild 'Ooh' from the crowd]

If you were in my shoes, you wouldn't just sit back and let it slide, if you were in my shoes, you would do what you have ALWAYS done, what WE have ALWAYS done and that is handle our business, the only way we know how. Right in the middle of this RING! [Crowd cheers] Give me Owens at Crown Jewel, PLEASE-- I beg of ya-- Hunter!" [Crowd cheers]

Triple H "I hope, to god, y'all know what you're asking for. [Crowd cheers] You want Kevin Owens at Crown Jewel? [Crowd cheers] You got 'em! [Crowd cheers] Randy, from this moment forward, I suggest you protect yourself at all times." [Crowd goes 'Ooh' as Triple H leaves the ring]

- Credit: Thanks to inmate JediSaiyanMaster1203 for transcribing this promo.

- Note 1: Randy Orton references his lengthy 2009 feud with Triple H, where Helmsley broke into Orton's home.