TOP 20 GREAT THINGS ABOUT RANDY ORTON
Even though he has his faults in WWE American Wrestling compared to someone like John Cena. Randy Orton is an excellent WWE American Wrestler and here are 20 things that are great about him.
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- Randal Keith "Randy" Orton (born April 1, 1980) is an American professional wrestler and actor best known to sports entertainment audiences for his career signed with WWE. Orton was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Bob Orton, Jr. and his wife Elaine. He is the grandson of Bob Orton, Sr. and the nephew of wrestler-turned-musician Barry Orton. Randy has a younger brother named Nate and a younger sister named Rebecca. Early in life, his parents discouraged him from pursuing any career in professional wrestling due to the major amount of time spent away from home and family. Orton however, still became involved with wrestling, on an amateur level while attending Hazelwood Central High School.
Orton graduated from high school in 1998 and then joined the United States Marine Corps. However, Orton received a Bad Conduct Discharge (BCD)in 1999 after twice going AWOL and for disobeying a direct order from a commanding officer.
After his brief military tenure, Orton opted for a career in professional wrestling. During 2000 at age 20, Orton began his training, lasting into the following year in 2001. He wrestled in local training promotions in St. Louis where his father and uncle had working relations with. Orton also gained experience as a wrestling referee.
During 2001, Orton signed with the then-World Wrestling Federation and began training in its instructional program Ohio Valley Wrestling. Orton made his debut the following year in 2002 at WrestleMania X8 (2002) Fan Axxcess, defeating Tommy Dreamer. During 2002, Orton began gaining more televised match time and screen-time for promos. The following year in 2003 after the company renamed itself as the WWE, Orton quickly enhanced his presence on the WWE roster, when he joined the heel stable known as Evolution, fronted by Paul Levesque (known in-ring as Triple H). While in Evolution, Orton won his first singles title when he defeated Rob Van Dam for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at WWE Armageddon (2003). The following year, Orton won his second title when he defeated fan favorite Summerslam (2004). By this time, Orton had began drifting away from his Evolution teammates and went on to strike out on his own. Establishing himself as the "Legend Killer" Orton began on a crusade of taking down every wrestling legend the WWE had to offer. His crusade came to a cryptic end when he was defeated by The Phenom, The Undertaker (Mark Calaway) at WrestleMania 21 (2005), after promising WWE fans he would end Undertaker's 12-0 undefeated WrestleMania record.
As Orton's career continued in the WWE, Orton won the WWE Championship a total of 8 times and was the last World Heavyweight Champion after winning that title 4 times. During the later 2000s, Orton formed a tag team with Adam Copeland (known as Edge), becoming Team Rated RKO (a play on Edge's nickname as the Rated R Superstar and Randy's finisher move named the RKO). They won the World Tag Team Championship for the first and last time before losing the titles to John Cena and Shawn Michaels. During the early 2010s, Orton formed his own stable called Legacy, comprised of Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase Jr.. Afterwards, Orton returned to his singular ways and became known as the "Apex Predator" and "The Viper", increasing his aggression and killer-instinct in the wrestling ring.
Outside of wrestling, Orton ventured into acting. He was previously intended to star in WWE-produced film titles such as The Marine 2 (2009), but was injured at the time and the lead role was given to Ted DiBiase Jr. When he was considered for the third sequel to The Marine, he was dismissed from consideration due to his history with the USMC and the lead was given to Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin. Orton made his film debut in 2011 in the film That's What I Am (2011) as the father of a school bully. His next film role was the lead in 12 Rounds 2: Reloaded (2013), followed later with a lead in The Condemned 2 (2015) and an appearance in Countdown (2016). In 2016, Orton got a supporting role in the action thriller series Shooter (2016).Here are Top 10 Great things about Randy Orton.
1) Randy Orton is a 14 Time WWE World Champion American Wrestler.
2) Randy has some amazing strength and skills that a lot of wrestlers compared to him don't have.
3) Randy Orton is also very flexible, strong and powerful.
4) Randy Orton's classic and popular move the RKO is an awesome and very powerful move.
5) Randy Orton not only looks sexy with his hairless muscly body abut he also has an excellent physique.
6) Randy Orton is very tall. He is 6ft 5.
7) Randy Orton is very humble in interviews and when being interviewed.
8) Randy Orton is a very healthy man who eats healthily, eats a lot of protein, Sushi three times a week and doesn't eat any junk food.
9) Randy Orton has been going strong in the WWE now for 20 years, is still in the WWE and hasn't given up. Another great thing about him is he has confidence and faith in himself is not afraid of no one which is great.
10) Randy Orton is best friends with John Cena. They both have been best friends for years and Randy also is a very respectful wrestler, respecting other wrestlers such as John Cena for his achievements and how he has also achieved higher.
11) Randy Orton may not be a strong as John Cena or able to keep to John Cena's high standards and achievements but he is also known and accepted as being a very powerful wrestler. Some Viewers on YouTube are insane and class him as being the GOAT in WWE American Wrestling. That's crazy because just because he's a 14 Time WWE American Wrestler doesn't mean he's the GOAT in WWE American Wrestling. Randy has said politely that he's not the GOAT in WWE American Wrestling and that there are wrestlers who are way better than him such as the retired Steve Austin and John Cena. Cena's mic skills, his never give up, rise above hate influence and inspiration as well as his help to all kinds of people such as people with health problems, disabilities etc has really amazed everyone and made everyone love him, which Randy knows makes Cena the GOAT in WWE American Wrestling because everything in Cena is just amazing and incredible. Randy is doing well now and so did Cena but Cena has retired and is 3 years older than Randy who is 43 and if Randy continues has more success and surpasses Cena's record of 16 Time WWE World Champion American Wrestler and loads more changes in him he may become the GOAT in WWE American Wrestling, but he definitely isn't the GOAT in WWE American Wrestling and loads more hard work will need to be done for him to be the GOAT in WWE American Wrestling but it's very unlikely because he can't replace or definitely keep up to Cena's extremely high standards or achievements.
12) Besides his amazing strength and skills in American Wrestling Randy Orton has also acted in a few films. He may not have acted in loads of films like Cena has but he acted the films 'That's What I Am', '12 Rounds 2: Reloaded', 'The Condemned 2', 'Countdown' and 'Changeland'.
13) Randy Orton gives good advice and keeps fans informed on how he trains, what equipment he uses to trains, the weight of how much they weigh etc.
14) Randy Orton is someone in WWE American Wrestling you can look up to and admire because he has achieved very high due to all the hard work he puts in when involved in his career in American Wrestling.
15) Randy Orton also is a man who has a very big fanbase. When he's in a wrestling match say against Roman Reigns or The Usos, everyone all the fans loudly say "Randy, Randy, Randy, Randy, Randy" but the opponents such as Roman Reigns or The Usos loudly get booed by everyone. Lots of his fans love his moves when fighting such as his RKO and also loads of male fans love and admire his physique and would love to have a physique like him. Even a female fan of his called Kim now is his wife called Kim Orton and they have 2 kids. I always check things on the internet about him such as his physique, his healthy diet etc.
16) It's very easy for Randy Orton to beat the American Wrestlers he's beaten such as Roman Reigns, The Usos, Dolph Ziggler, The Edge, Bray Wyatt, Kevin Owens etc, he even beat Hulk Hogan using his RKO!! because of his very powerful moves.
17) Randy Orton's way of fighting as a WWE American Wrestler is absolutely amazing and brilliant.
18) Randy Orton is very supportive of his best friend John Cena and has confronted Roman Reigns telling him that he's 10 times better than Roman Reigns is.
19) Randy Orton's father Bob Orton was also an American Wrestler.
20) There will never be another Randy Orton, anyone as good as him or someone who can beat him, because he is a hard working man who works hard in his career in WWE American Wrestling to excel and be the best.