From: JaKyL25 | #181
And to further discuss Panthera's point, yes, the entire point of this feud is that Christian is one step below Randy Orton. The point of this was NEVER to make Christian look like a world beater, or someone who was actually BETTER than Randy Orton. They've gone to extensive lengths to prove over the last 6 months that Christian is great, Christian can beat most guys on the roster, but Christian is not the best. He's very competitive with Orton, but he cannot actually find the winning combination.
And that's a terrible thing for a feud to be about. It's exactly the same argument about Cena during his worst superman runs, or Hogan - there's no suspense, anticipation or excitement when it's established from beginning to end that one guy is out of his league and can't actually win.
Rather, the point of all this was to get crowds to HATE Christian. To see him as an underhanded scum who cared more about winning the belt than he did about ethics or even unwritten rules of the sport.
Which also makes no sense when this all began with the crowd being super supportive of him for finally winning the title. The crowd was split down the middle during their first two matches, to the point of Christian support being louder than Orton support for periods. Even with Orton still being the more popular overall, actually getting that much support against the guy is crazy. Everyone wanted to support Christian for finally achieving his dream and then refusing to get mad when it was taken away and instead trying to earn it back. So they turned him heel and completely changed his entire personality. The story was already in the gutter then, since any feud that involves a guy doing a complete character 180 is no longer consistent or coherent.
You say that there was no accomplishment in Orton winning, but Christian had the title he always wanted. He didn't give one rat's ass about HOW he won it, all that was important was that HE HAD IT. In Christian's mind, he was WINNING. He got the one thing his heart desired, but to do so he had to sell out each and every last thing he believed in.
Remember when Christians motivation was proving that he deserved to be champion and that he could indeed beat Orton? Remember when he spent a month being the guy who refused to go down the "sell out your beliefs to win" route by staying respectful and vowing to prove himself? Yeah, so do I.
So in the end, the title was all he was left with. His title...and his comeuppance. And the one guy on SmackDown that he cannot find a way to defeat.
You REALLY can't have a "only one guy he can't beat" storyline going when the show right before showed that he's terrified of Sheamus and can't beat him either.
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Mistake you're making - overlooking the fact that we might not want to be saved.