Randy Orton Bio
Randal "Randy" Keith Orton an American professional wrestler born on 1st April 1980. Randy if from a wrestling family, his grand father, Bob Orton, father, cowboy Bob Orton and his uncle, Barry O, were one of the greatest wrestlers in the history of WWE. Orton is the 3rd generation wrestler. Before coming to the wrestling arena Orton was a US Marine Corps, but was discharged after a year of joining because, he was disobeying the orders of the commanding officer.
In 1998 he completed his graduation from Hazelwood Central High School.
2000 was the year when Randy makes the debut as a wrestler in St. Louis with MMWA SICW and was trained by many top wrestlers as well as his father.
Randy Orton WWE Career
He was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling as the result of a development deal with WWE.
He made his first appearance in a match against Billy Gunn, on 2001. After completing his training at Ohio Valley Wrestling, he then came into the main roster. Randy Orton WWE career was started on April 25, 2002 in an episode of Smack Down and he won the match against Hardcore Holly. After that he defeated Christian and Lance Storm. After that he got injured and got out of the ring for several months. Meanwhile he launched a Randy News Network to explain the current status of his shoulder. He made a return on January 20, 2003 and helped Triple H to beat the Scott Steinere and after that he joined the Evolution as a member. Later he was awarded the “The Legend Killer" because of his stunning performance. Randy gained infamy when he spat on the face of legendry Harley Race. At the same year he got the high profile matches. In 2003 he got the Elimination Chamber match for World Heavyweight challenge, but it was for the help to Triple H to retain the title. In 2003 he defeated the Shawn Michael in a high profile match “Legend vs. Legend Killer”. In Armagadon he defeated the Rob Van Dam for the WWE Intercontinental Championship and holds this title for seven months and became the man to hold the title for the longer time.
In the starting of 2004 a dispute arise between Randy and Mick Foley when Foley walked out during the match and Randy called him as a coward. Foley returned and teamed up with The Rock to beat Orton, Ric Flari and Batista in WrestleMania XX. In July of 2004 Randy was defeated by the Edge in a match for Intercontinental Championship. In the same month Randy eliminate Chris Jericho in the twenty-man battle royal match and became the number one contender to the WWE World Heavyweight Championship and at SummerSlam 2004 Randy won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship by defeating the Chris Benoit at that time his age was just 24 years and he became the youngest WWE World Heavyweight winner in the history of WWE. After the match Chris Benoit shake the hand with Randy to appreciate him. One night later he successfully defend his title against Chris Benoit
During the celebration of the belt Triple H requested to him give him the WWE World Heavyweight title, but he rejected to give his World Heavyweight title over to Triple H instead spit out on his face and strikes him with the belt. He was brutalize by the Evolution and was thrown out of Evolution.
He then became the soul wrestler and began using new Randy Orton entrance music "Burn in My Light" sang by Mercy Drive. After a month at Unforgiven 2004 Randy was defeated by Triple H for the World Heavyweight title. When Triple H was celebrating his success, Randy jumped into celebration and dominated the Triple H.
A Survivor Series 2004 Randy won a match along with Maven, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit and became the General Manager of RAW for one week. He scheduled many match during this week and also scheduled a contest between several RAW Divas. He also organized a match for the World Heavyweight Championship, but Vince McMahon changed this to a number one contender match.
On January 2005 at New Year’s Revolution Randy was chosen to face five other wrestlers for the World Heavyweight Championship in an Elimination Chamber match, but unfortunately Orton lost the match. On next night he became the number one contender for the World Heavyweight title after defeating the Batista, but on January 30, at Royal Rumble once again he lost the match against the Triple H. After Billy Graham’s advice Randy challenged The Undertaker at WrestleMania 21, but The Undertaker defeated Randy, despite interference from his father. On the following night of WrestleMania 21, Randy got injured but, after one month he returned to WWE Smack Down attacking The Undertaker. At SummerSlam once again Randy challenged The Undertaker with the help of his father Cowboy Bob Orton. At No Mercy 2005 Orton and Bob defeated The Undertaker in a handicap match when Bob hit the Undertaker with a gas cylinder.
At Survivor Series, Orton won the match for "Team SmackDown!" as the member of the "Team SmackDown!" and became the sole survivor of a team for the 3rd time. In the celebration of this match The Undertaker made his return and hit the Orton and some other members of the WWE roster. On November 29, 2005 on a special episode of WWE Randy placed The Undertaker in a box and set it on fire. After that Randy faced The Undertake to a Hell in a Cell at Armageddon 2005. The Undertaker defeated Randy and his father and finally stop their nine month long feud.
In the 5th match of the best of seven series for the WWE United States Championship Randy decided to replace the injured Booker T. Randy had to won only one match to win the series for Booker T. He lost two consecutive matches but, in January of 2006, Randy defeated Benoit in SmackDown and won the series for Booker T. in 2006 Royal Rumble, Randy was eliminated by Rey Mysterio. After this defeat Orton challenged Mysterio fot the title match and he accepted it. Orton won this match and on following episode a match was scheduled between Mysterio, Orton and the World Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle.
On April 4 2006, because of unprofessional conduct Randy was suspended for 60 day. On June 5, 2006 Randy made his return and attacked on Kurt Angle. Once again he suspended because he fails to clear the drug test. In September the suspension had been lifted and now, he teamed up with Edge and feuding with DX to become the first team to defeat the DX since their regeneration. Currently Randy Orton and Edge are World Tag Team Champion.