The Viper didn't have a long run with the title, dropping it to Triple H at the next pay-per-view, Unforgiven. After continuing to feud with his former comrades for the rest of , Randy Orton turned heel in and unsuccessfully attempted to end The Undertaker's streak at WrestleMania He was subsequently drafted to SmackDown in order to resume his program with The Deadman for the rest of the year.
The title had previously been declared vacant after John Cena was forced to relinquish it due to a pectoralis major muscle injury. The Missouri native sustained a collarbone injury the next month and made a return in September of , forming a stable with Ted Dibiase Jr and Cody Rhodes called Legacy. However, Orton redeemed himself at the next pay-per-view, Backlash, by winning the title from his former mentor after an emphatic punt to the head.
He then traded the title with Batista and Cena before being relegated to the upper mid-card following a loss to Cena in an "I Quit" match. When WrestleMania 26 came around, Orton turned face for the first time since and defeated his former Legacy colleagues, Rhodes and DiBiase, in a 2-on-1 handicap match. He held onto the title until the November 22, , episode of Raw when The Miz successfully cashed in Money in the Bank.
This was famous for being a match that nearly no one walked away from unhurt. No longer a member of the group Evolution.
The group turned on him the night after he won the world title from Chris Benoit. In reality, he is actually best friends with wrestlers John Cena and John Hennigan. He travels with Dave Bautista aka "Batista". Every Tuesday, he goes to his parents house to have dinner with his family and so his father can talk about his matches on RAW the previous night. Is the third third-generation wrestler in WWE history. Is the youngest world champion in WWE History, winning the title at During the match Orton injured his shoulder, which caused him to lose his match, making The Undertaker at WrestleMania.
Due to his bicep muscle being torn off of his shoulder, he is expected to be out of action for about months. This is his second shoulder surgery. During the match he further injured his shoulder and his bicep muscle was torn. Has been suspended for 60 days by WWE for his unprofessional conduct. Is in reality good friends with Mark Calaway aka "The Undertaker". Leading to their Wrestlemania 21 match, Mark Calaway aka "The Undertaker" suggested Randy being the man to end his streak, but Randy refused out of respect for The Undertaker's legacy.
They won as part of a new heel tag team: Rated RKO. Despite the fact that his on-screen character takes great pride in knowing he injured John Cena. In real life he was the first man to visit Cena after his surgery and he felt really guilty. Punk aka CM Punk for one week before reverting back to "Burn In My Light" at the request of fans, who cited an incompatibility between the metal song and Orton.
He has since started using the theme "Voices" by Rev Theory and still uses it as of this writing. At birth, she was 8 pounds, 10 ounces, and After the disbandment of "Evolution", created stable "The Legacy" with himself as leader. Thanks to his Interference witha steel Chair, Triple H lost and Randy can now challenge for the title again. He injured his shoulder and will be out of action for months. Orton began an on-screen relationship with Stacy Keibler and briefly feuded with Christian in February On the February 28 edition of Raw, "Superstar" Billy Graham made an appearance, in which he advised Orton to "go where no wrestler [had] gone before".
Orton then produced a copy of SmackDown! Heeding Graham's advice, Orton claimed that he would set himself apart from all other wrestlers by ending The Undertaker's undefeated streak at WrestleMania. On the March 21 edition of Raw, Orton turned heel once more after he delivered an RKO to his unsuspecting on-screen girlfriend, Stacy Keibler, knocking her unconscious.
During Orton's promos, he would immediately run for cover when signs of The Undertaker's appearance were near lightning, darkness, or smoke. In the weeks leading up to WrestleMania, Orton became more defiant and unafraid of the Undertaker, taunting and assaulting him in the ring following distractions from his father, "Cowboy" Bob Orton.
At WrestleMania 21, however, the heavily hyped match was unsuccessful for Orton, as he lost despite his father's interference.
Orton stated on-screen that his match with The Undertaker had aggravated a shoulder injury. He rekindled his feud with The Undertaker, defeating him at SummerSlam following a distraction from his father. In the match, Orton was the last remaining wrestler in the match, as he pinned Shawn Michaels to get the victory for Team SmackDown. At the event, The Undertaker, who had been absent since Orton had apparently killed him on an episode of SmackDown!
The feud was finally settled with a Hell in a Cell match at the upcoming December 18 Armageddon, where The Undertaker offered to retire if he lost. On December 16, The Undertaker entered the ring to deliver a promo while one of his druids appeared to be standing in the ring. The druid revealed himself to be Orton's father, who gave Orton the Undertaker's urn, which, according to the storyline, allowed whomever held it to control The Undertaker.
The Undertaker, however, beat both Ortons in a Hell in a Cell match, which ended their nine-month-long feud with The Undertaker. Orton would go on to successfully defeat Benoit in the final match of the series and become the first person to win a championship for another wrestler as Booker T was awarded the US Title.
Orton would go on to be the final entrant of the Royal Rumble but he was eliminated by Rey Mysterio. Mysterio won the match to earn a title shot at WrestleMania 22, but Orton urged him to put the title shot at stake in a match at No Way Out.
In the weeks preceding No Way Out, Orton made disparaging remarks about Eddie Guerrero, Mysterio's deceased friend, in an attempt to gain heel heat. Guerrero's death had occurred only months previously, and many fans felt the comments were unwarranted and highly distasteful. On April 4, , Orton was suspended for sixty days for "unprofessional conduct. To cover for the suspension, a faked injury was devised, where Kurt Angle broke Orton's ankle during a grudge match.
In July, Orton said his suspension resulted from smoking marijuana backstage. Orton returned from his suspension in June to the Raw brand, where he engaged in a storyline feud with Hulk Hogan. Orton began cutting promos insulting the aging Hogan and flirted with Hogan's eighteen-year-old daughter Brooke. At SummerSlam, the two met in a "Legend vs. Legend Killer" match, which Hogan won.
The two became the first to defeat DX since their reunion and quickly dominated the Raw brand's tag team division to become tag team champions. Orton and Edge suffered a series of losses to Cena and Michaels in the following months, building hatred towards one another. Neither Edge nor Orton won the Championship, and they lost their claims as number one contenders after a failed match with Cena at Backlash.
Orton then continued his "Legend Killer" persona, attacking Shawn Michaels. When the kayfabe wounded and concussed Michaels collapsed in the ring, the referee was forced to stop the match and award Orton the victory. Orton then took his demands to Mr.
McMahon, who also refused to give Orton a rematch unless he proved himself. That night, Orton interfered in Cena's match by assaulting Cena and kicking Cena's father, who was at ringside, in the head. Orton was granted his title rematch against Cena at Unforgiven and won by disqualification when Cena refused to stop punching Orton in the corner.
Cena retained the WWE title because a title cannot change hands by disqualification. After the match, Cena's father, who was again at ringside, kicked Orton in the head. McMahon after Cena was stripped of the title due to an injury the previous week, which also ended the Orton-Cena storyline prematurely. Orton then lost the title to Triple H in the opening match of the show, making Orton's reign the third shortest in WWE history.
The two met in a title match at Cyber Sunday after a match was made in which the fans would get to vote on either Michaels, Jeff Hardy or Mr. Kennedy as the opponent. As a result, Michaels was voted to face Orton. In the match, Orton was disqualified when he performed a low blow on Michaels, but Orton retained the title. The stipulation of the match was that if Michaels used Sweet Chin Music, the match would be stopped and Michaels would never get a chance at the WWE title, but if Orton got himself disqualified, he would lose the title.
Following this, he re-engaged in his feud with John Cena, who had returned from injury and won the Royal Rumble match. Orton lost the match after getting himself intentionally disqualified, thus retaining the title.
Orton won the match by pinning Cena after a Pedigree from Triple H. Orton lost the match and legitimately broke his collarbone. As retaliation Orton went on to punt DiBiase in the head. The following week, they made it official, by defeating Batista and Triple H, Orton's former stablemates, in a three-on-two handicap match, dubbing themselves The Legacy.
In trying to elicit an apology from Stephanie McMahon for disrespecting him, Mr. This prompted Orton to smack McMahon and in the end punted him. Orton also revealed that the WWE had prior knowledge of this condition and did nothing about it. Orton challenged that if he was reprimanded for his action he would go as far as to sue the WWE, even mentioning that in effect, WrestleMania XXV would be canceled.
Randy Orton came out victorious in the match, after interference by Legacy. Legacy nonetheless interfered and helped Orton pick up the win. However, after the match, Orton proceeded to punt Shane as well.
Orton is a third-generation professional wrestler; his grandfather Bob Orton, Sr. Orton was born on April 1, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Knowing from experience the hardships of life as a professional wrestler , Orton's parents tried to convince him to stay away from wrestling, and his father warned him that life in the ring meant a life on the road, away from family. Orton attended Hazelwood Central High School, where he was an amateur wrestler. There, he was dishonorably discharged a year later, after going AWOL on two separate occasions and disobeying an order from a commanding officer.
Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Private First Class Orton was tried and convicted under a special court-martial and was put into a military prison for thirty-eight days. Louis, Missouri , an offshoot of the historic St. Louis Wrestling Club headed by Sam Muchnick. There, he was trained by both the promotion and his father, Cowboy Bob Orton. He only wrestled at the promotion for one month, where he performed with such wrestlers as Ace Strange and Mark Bland.
Orton also refereed a few matches with World Organized Wrestling, a promotion where his uncle Barry Orton worked. Black on February 14, and Flash Flanagan on May 5, Soon after, Orton became a face crowd favorite and was placed in a series of matches with Holly. In September , Orton was drafted to the Raw brand, where he defeated Stevie Richards in his debut on the show.
Within weeks of his debut on the Raw brand, Orton suffered a shoulder injury, leaving him sidelined for months. While recovering, Orton still appeared on Raw, in his own "Randy News Network" segment, a weekly vignette featuring him talking about his condition. The show interrupted other segments of Raw programming, which caused Orton to slowly transition himself into a narcissistic and self-centered heel. The group was pushed on Raw from to , with the height of their dominance occurring after Armageddon in when all of the men's titles on Raw were held by the members of Evolution.
Afterwards, Orton proclaimed himself "The Legend Killer", a young upstart who was so talented that he touted himself as the future of professional wrestling. He embarked on numerous storyline feuds with "legendary" wrestlers and gained infamy for his blatant disrespect of many older, well-regarded names in wrestling history. He defeated Shawn Michaels at Unforgiven , in the first of many high-profile matches billed as "Legend versus Legend Killer", with the help of his stablemate and mentor Ric Flair.
Orton then spat in the face of Harley Race on the April 26, edition of Raw. During this time, Orton began using the move that would become his signature finisher, the RKO, a jumping cutter, named after his initials. With this win, Orton started the longest Intercontinental title reign in seven years, holding the title for seven months.
Orton continued to establish himself as a "Legend Killer" throughout , challenging the semi-retired wrestler Mick Foley. Famed for his hardcore matches and an ability to handle excruciating pain, Foley offered Orton a hardcore "Legend versus Legend Killer" match if Orton would put his Intercontinental Championship on the line.
In a bloody match involving thumbtacks and barbed wire, Orton defeated Foley. After becoming the number one contender on July 26 , he defeated Chris Benoit for the championship with the added distinction of being the youngest World Heavyweight Champion in wrestling history at age twenty-four. Benoit congratulated Orton after the match, shaking his hand for showing the ability to "be a man".
The following night, Evolution threw Orton a mock celebration, only to reveal that they were not pleased with his new victory. While Batista had Orton propped on his shoulders in elation, Triple H gave him a pleased thumbs up and then abruptly changed it to a thumbs-down, which was followed by Batista performing an Electric Chair on Orton.
He ordered the young champion to hand over the championship, but Orton refused, spitting in Triple H's face and hitting him with the title belt. Orton's break-up with Evolution began a new storyline for him as a face when he continued to feud with his former stablemates. A month later, Orton lost his championship at Unforgiven. Seeking revenge, Orton lashed out at Evolution members, catching them by surprise during a show by giving them a large cake as a make-up gift, which he came out of it to beat and humiliate the group.
After this, Orton experienced another push, becoming General Manager of the Raw brand for a week following a match stipulation at Survivor Series. He continued to feud with Triple H, using his authority to place his opponents at severe disadvantages during title defenses. Orton was granted another chance at the championship in January but lost a six-man championship Elimination Chamber match to Triple H at New Year's Revolution.
Orton began an on-screen relationship with Stacy Keibler and briefly feuded with Christian in February On the February 28 edition of Raw , "Superstar" Billy Graham made an appearance, in which he advised Orton to "go where no wrestler [had] gone before". Orton then produced a copy of SmackDown! Heeding Graham's advice, Orton claimed that he would set himself apart from all other wrestlers by ending The Undertaker's undefeated streak at WrestleMania.
On the March 21 edition of Raw , Orton turned heel once more after he delivered an RKO to his unsuspecting on-screen girlfriend, Stacy Keibler, knocking her unconscious. During Orton's promos, he would immediately run for cover when signs of The Undertaker's appearance were near lightning, darkness, or smoke.
In the weeks leading up to WrestleMania, Orton became more defiant and unafraid of the Undertaker, taunting and assaulting him in the ring following distractions from his father, "Cowboy" Bob Orton.
At WrestleMania 21 , however, the heavily hyped match was unsuccessful for Orton, as he lost despite his father's interference. Orton stated on-screen that his match with The Undertaker had aggravated a shoulder injury. He rekindled his feud with The Undertaker, defeating him at SummerSlam following a distraction from his father. In the match, Orton was the last remaining wrestler in the match, as he pinned Shawn Michaels to get the victory for Team SmackDown.
At the event, The Undertaker, who had been absent since Orton had apparently killed him on an episode of SmackDown! The feud was finally settled with a Hell in a Cell match at the upcoming December 18 Armageddon , where The Undertaker offered to retire if he lost.
On December 16 , The Undertaker entered the ring to deliver a promo while one of his druids appeared to be standing in the ring. The druid revealed himself to be Orton's father , who gave Orton the Undertaker's urn, which, according to the storyline, allowed whomever held it to control The Undertaker. The Undertaker, however, beat both Ortons in a Hell in a Cell match, which ended their nine-month-long feud with The Undertaker.
Orton would go on to successfully defeat Benoit in the final match of the series and become the first person to win a championship for another wrestler as Booker T was awarded the US Title.
Orton would go on to be the final entrant of the Royal Rumble but he was eliminated by Rey Mysterio.
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