Somewhere, Randy Orton is smiling.
A Florida teenager was arrested this week after he attempted to hit the WWE superstar’s signature move — an RKO — on his high school principal.
Gianny Sosa, 18, was charged with battery on a school employee and granted release from jail Thursday without bond following a brief court appearance.
His defense attorney, Roy Ugarte, called the teen’s arrest report “hands down one of the most insane” he’d ever read.
“Everyone knows wrestling is fake,” Ugarte said in court, according to the Miami Herald.
“It shouldn’t have been arrestable.”
Sosa, a senior at Miami Southridge Senior High, was caught on video attempting the wrestling move on his principal, Humberto Miret. He can be heard yelling “RKO!” right before attempting to grab Miret’s neck.
Ugarte claims Sosa was just horsing around and didn’t intend on actually attacking Miret. The teen has posted videos on his Instagram page in which he performs RKOs on random things and acts wild in public.
As part of his character, Orton — aka “the Viper” — has been sneaking up on wrestlers for years and hitting his finishing move “outta nowhere” as he famously puts it. The act has been a huge hit among fans, who’ve given it the meme treatment on social media.
“Randy would be proud,” joked an Instagram user who shared Sosa’s RKO video on Thursday.
“Way too obvious,” another user said, noting how Sosa shouldn’t have shouted RKO. “It needed to be out of nowhere.”