WWE star Randy Orton says he wasn't ready to be youngest champion at 24, talks docuseries episode

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WWE star Randy Orton will be among the focal points of the new season of A&E’s docuseries "Biography: WWE Legends" on Sunday as the show looks back from his younger years to how he came to have a successful run in the company.

Orton, a third-generation WWE performer, made his way up the ranks from Ohio Valley Wrestling to the main roster. In his early 20s, he was in a faction alongside Paul "Triple H" Levesque, Ric Flair and Dave Bautista (simply known as Batista) and contending for the World Heavyweight Championship.

He became the No. 1 contender for the championship after winning a battle royal in July 2004. He then defeated Chris Benoit at the subsequent SummerSlam event to become the youngest World Heavyweight Champion at age 24. He would drop the title to Levesque a month later, sparking a breakup of their faction and deepening the on-screen feud.

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Randy Orton is shown during WWE Smackdown at Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, New York City, on Dec. 1, 2023. (Cora Veltman/Sportico via Getty Images)

Orton told Fox News Digital in a recent interview that he was nowhere near ready to become the face of the company with one of the top WWE belts at the time.

"That’s probably why I only had it for a month," he said. "It was definitely too much too soon, but I think that chance the company took on me, that’s one of the accolades I’ll always have. I don’t know that there’s another 24-year-old on the roster that could possibly come in and be a younger world champion than I was when I won it."

"I think I had a lot of maturing and growing up to do back then at 24 years old. But to be given a