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Biography |
Randal "Randy" Keith Orton (born April 1, 1980), is an
American professional wrestler currently working for the RAW
brand of World Wrestling Entertainment where he is one-half
of the World Tag Team Champions.
Orton is a third-generation professional wrestler; his
grandfather, Bob Orton, Sr., father, "Cowboy" Bob Orton, and
uncle, Barry O, were all professional wrestlers.
After graduating from Hazlewood Central High School in 1998,
Randy Orton made his professional wrestling debut in 2000
with the MMWA-SICW in St. Louis, Missouri. In MMWA-SICW or
South Broadway Athletic Club as it is known in St. Louis, he
was trained by such wrestlers there as Ron Powers, Gary
Jackson, Mark Bland, Jeremy Lightfoot, Phil E. Blunt and
promoter Tony Costa as well as his father, Cowboy Bob Orton.
This is an organization that was an off-shoot of the old
Wrestling at the Chase headed by Sam Munchnick between
1950-1983. Randy Orton then had a match with another St.
Louis group, Central Championship Wrestling, with O.G.
Stevie B.
Before becoming a wrestler, Orton enlisted with the United
States Marine Corps. Orton was dishonorably discharged about
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. As
this was before a change of law in 2002, Orton did not
become a felon as a result.
While on RAW, Orton was accused of harassing fellow WWE
employees Amy Weber and Rochelle Loewen, leading to the
departure of Weber from the company, while Loewen was
transferred to SmackDown! (she was later released). Loewen
claimed that he vandalized her possessions and directed
racist remarks towards her, calling him "an animal".
However, it should be noted that Orton's friend Mark Jindrak
refuted several of Loewen's accusations in an interview with
Voice of Wrestling, and claimed that Orton had apologized to
Loewen at the time of the 2005 Royal Rumble, and that fellow
Diva Search contestant (and eventual winner) Christy Hemme
denied what she knew of the allegations in an interview with
The Sun.
Orton suffers from hypermobile shoulders.
In November 2005, Orton announced his engagement to his
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