Randall Keith "Randy" Orton (born April 1, 1980 in Knoxville, Tennessee), is an American third-generation professional wrestler currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment's SmackDown! brand.

Orton comes from either either the personal of broker matman starting from his gramps Bob Orton, Sr.. His uncle Barry O was also the previous matman. When graduating from either Hazelwood Central High School he was trained by his father, "Cowboy" Bob Orton, and made his professional wrestling debut in 2000 with the MMWA-SICW in his hometown of Saint Louis, Missouri, and had a match with another St. Louis class action, Central Championship Wrestling, by using O.G. Stevie B. Shortly fallowing, he signed the developmental treat sustaining WWE & was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling. He debuted within WWE programming in April 2002.

Career
The Legend Killer
Randy Orton trained at Ohio Valley Wrestling within Louisville, until he was brought up to a independent roll. He manufactured little impact as a face on SmackDown! prior to existence drafted to RAW, where he became the heel.

Orton's heel turn was drawn out over many months. Piece sidelined by using a separated shoulder, Orton launched the "Randy News Network", a each week vignette which featured Orton explaining the todays status of his shoulder. He besides provided an e-e-mail location by which fans can email him to express their trend lines. His self-satisfied, self-egocentric attitude step by step turned a fans against him.

Upin his link to on January 20, 2003, Orton helped Triple H, Ric Flair and Batista beat down Scott Steiner, a challenger of Triple H's. Triple H late known as a foursome Evolution. At this point Orton was given a gimmick of The Legend Killer which saw him defeating or humiliating legendary grappler & personalities. Orton gained infamy whenever he spat in the faces of wrestling legends Mick Foley and Harley Race. At Unforgiven 2003 on September 21 Orton defeated Shawn Michaels with the facilitate of Ric Flair.

Ortin went on to kill Rob Van Dam for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at Armageddon 2003 on December 14. He became one of a longest-reigning Intercontinental Champions of recent years, holding a title for septet months.

World Heavyweight Champion
On the July 26, 2004 episode of RAW, Orton won the 20-human battle royal to become a first competitor to the World Heavyweight Championship. In August 15, 2004 at SummerSlam 2004, Orton defeated the World Heavyweight Champion Chris Benoit by pinfall following an R.K.O. to capture his first World Heavyweight Championship, making him the youngest ever World Heavyweight Champion in the WWE at the age of twenty-four. Fallowing a match, Orton & Benoit shook mitts where Benoit encouraged Orton to "''Be A Man'". A match was held inside Toronto, Ontario at the Air Canada Centre.

Orton was kicked away from Evolution a nighttime when fallowing winning the World Heavyweight Championship, which the class action's leader, Triple H, believed belonged to him. Orton became a face, & Triple H began feuding by using him across the title. Good under the year subsequently September 12, Orton lost the World Heavyweight Championship to Triple H at Unforgiven 2004. His short reign when Globe Heavyweight Champion wwhen largely esteem the gloomy failure, inside section due to his unwanted & sudden rise to independent event status however largely because his face turn was non swell received per majority of the WWE audience, especially as Chris Benoit experienced clearly been a popular Globe Heavyweight Champion. Backstage politics by Triple H were besides rumoured to keep close at hand played the section around his short rerun when champion.

Orton was of these of a one-nighttime-simply General Managers of Birthday suit, along using Maven, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit, following their triumph at Survivor Series 2004 in a match which entitled a winners to every become General Manager for one of a quadruplet weeks ensuing the event. On the November 29, 2004, episode of RAW, Orton booked the Battle Royal for the Globe Heavyweight Championship. Yet, Vince McMahon overruled Orton, changing the Battle Royal to the first rival match. Orton too gave Eugene & William Regal the match for the WWE World Tag-Team Championships against Lthe Résistance, and scheduled a intimate apparel contest between many RAW prima donna.

When the World Heavyweight Championship was vacated, Orton was chosen to face Triple H, Chris Benoit, Edge, Batista and Chris Jericho in an Elimination Chamber match at WWE New Year's Revolution to determine a new champion. Triple H managed to win the match, so keeping their feud active for a hanker period. He was late stillborn around his attempt to win back a World Heavyweight Championship from either Triple H at the 2005 Royal Rumble.

Return of The Legend Killer
When Batista's click began, Orton was marginalized. He began an onscreen relationship by using Stacy Keibler and briefly feuded with Christian. Fallowing "Superstar" Billy Graham advised Orton to "go where no wrestler has gone before", Orton challenged veteran SmackDown! matman The Undertaker to a match at WrestleMania 21, making A challenging claim that he would kill The Funeral director, so ending Funeral undertaker's undefeated WrestleMania streak.

This feud saw Orton hitting a R.K.O. in Jake "The Snake" Roberts, who had warned him not to "bite off more than he could chew" by facing The Undertaker. Good fortnight prior to WrestleMania, Orton cemented his heel status by knocking Stacy out cold by using a R.K.O. He went in to slap the Funeral undertaker & assault him charted a distraction by his father, Cowboy Bob Orton. Despite interference from either his father, Orton was defeated per Funeral director at WrestleManiA fallowing he attempted a Tombstone Piledriver, however was off-balance, enabling a Funeral director to reverse the go in his have Tombstone Piledriver for the pinfall triumph.

Around storyline terms, a match by having Batista a nighttime fallowing WrestleMania aggravated Orton's shoulder problems stemming from either either a former nighttime (around realistic he was sidelined for many months when recuperating from his third echt shoulder injury). the ensuing week, WWE showed footage of Orton undergoing shoulder surgery around the hospital, in which he sent Batista a message. Stacy Keibler, watching along by having another RAW prima donna, stated "Orton got what he deserved." He mass produced an appearance in Altogether in May 16 to talk about he was attend stay Altogether for retaliatiwithin on Batistthe & require his globe title in a period of the draft lottery & had in a confrontation by using Vince McMahon. When Orton claimed that he may not become drafted to SmackDown because he's on a wounded listings, Vince McMahon cleared the air for Orton by saying "Even those on the injured list are not immune to the draft".

Orton returned on the June 16, 2005 edition of SmackDown!, attacking The Funeral undertaker & announcing that he experienced been drafted back to SmackDown! when a 2nd pick in the 2005 draft lottery. In August 4, he challenged The Funeral director to the WrestleMania replay at SummerSlam, and his challenge was accepted. Orton won his number one 2 matches as a consequence his injury, defeating Kamala (with Kim Chee) and Chris Benoit in consecutive weeks, & went in to kill A Funeral undertaker at SummerSlam charted interference from either his father. Following of his wins, Orton became more & more self-self-assured, and announced that he was creating the old-age pension for The Funeral undertaker, world health organization was "dead and buried". Even so, A Funeral undertaker returned on the number 1 episode of Friday Nighttime SmackDown!, setting the prevent alight using a mysterious bolt of lightning.

On the September 15 episode of SmackDown!, Orton and the Funeral undertaker fought for a third instance. Prior to the match, Orton & his father attempted to shock A Mortician by placing a casket in the ring with an image of The Mortician within. Despite a psychological attack, Orton misplaced a subsequent match. A ensuing week, a Ortons brought an additional casket to a ring, containing what was supposedly the Funeral director mannequin from last week. Nevertheless, when the Ortons cut a promo on A mannequin & claimed to stand defeated a Undertaken mentally, whenever non physically, A mannequin (revealing itself to exist as a Mortician in-person) caught Orton per throat and threw him into the casket. Following of the cases of former weeks, A Ortons were scheduled to face The Mortician within a handicap casket match at No Mercy on October 9.

In October 3 edition of WWE Raw's Homecoming Randy & his father appeared and interrupted "Rowdy" Roddy Piper & Mick Foley when you took Piper's Pit, this stimulated the confrontation between Randy & Piper world health organization brawled inducing Foley & Bob to intervene between them which ended by having Bob fighting Foley. A section ended by having Randy yielding a RKO to Piper & inevitably adding "Rowdy" Roddy Piper to the listings of legends flushed. This late install the match between Piper & Randy for October 7 edition of SmackDown, 2 times prior to a Ortons faced A Funeral director at There is no Mercy.

Prior to meeting A Funeral undertaker yet, A Ortons would treat by owning "Rowdy" Roddy Piper after Piper showed au fait Smack Down, & was clearly unhappy sustaining generating RKO'ed by Randy. Them Ortons challenged Piper to the handicap match where Piper won due to Funeral director's distraction. When A Funeral director was on a titan tron, 4 mysterious & dark dressed men approached the ring using a casket where The Funeral undertaker urged the two to have a look within. Once a Ortons did, it were shocked to buy deuce lifelike dummies of themselves resting around peace in a casket.

At There is no Mercy, Randy & his father "Cowboy" Bob Orton managed to beat the funeral director in their number 1 ever casket match, Thanks to Bob Orton blazing Mortician by using the fire extinguisher followed by a chair shot from either Randy Orton. Within an attempt to prove that he occurs as bonafide Legend Killer, Randy Orton attacked a casket using an ax prior to setting it alight when believing that A Funeral undertaker was however within a casket. Yet, once a fire died down & a casket was opened, Randy & Bob were shocked to call for a A Funeral undertaker ''wasn't there''.

This feud is potential to do till Survivor Series for a Buried Alive match.

On the October 14 edition of SmackDown!, Randy Orton fought Eddie Guerrero to determine the First Competitor to Batista for the World Heavyweight Championship. When Guerrero climbed as much as a top rope for his finisher Frog splash, Bob Orton pushed Guerrero off a turnbuckles & into the ring. Following of this, Guerrero was declared a winner via DQ.

Finishing and signature moves
R.K.O. (Jumping cutter) O-Zone (Overdrive) Top-rope flying crossbody Elevated DDT European uppercut Rotated inverted-facelock into a back stretch Rear chin lock by having forearm shots to the chest & neck Wheelbarrow German suplex Falling clothesline Dropkick

"Legend Killings"
Orton's "Legend Killer" gimmick has led to him defeating, assaulting, demeaning or even otherwise defamatory a below "Legends":

Sgt. Slaughter Mae Young Shawn Michaels Ric Flair Booker T Rob Van Dam Cactus Jack The Fabulous Moolah Mark Cuban (owner of the Dallas Mavericks) Stone Cold Steve Austin Jerry "The King" Lawler The Rock "King" Harley Race Triple H Eric Bischoff Jake "The Snake" Roberts Kamala The Undertaker "Rowdy" Roddy Piper

Quotes
"Get a look at greatness!" "Not only am I better looking, I am just plain better!" "I am... The Legend Killer!" "R...K...O!" "''I'm a third generation superstar!" "Nothing can stop Randy Orton!" "I'm the future of this business."

Personal life
Prior to becoming a matman, Orton enlisted using the United States Marine Corps out of high school. Orton was dishonorably freed all about a year late when running AWOL on two occasions, a number 1 period for 82 years, & disobeying an sequentially from either a commanding officer, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Private First Class Orton was convicted under a favorite court-martial, and, because this was prior to the law changed inside 2002, did non get a felon as a result.

When you took RAW, Orton was accused of harassing fellow WWE employees Amy Weber and Rochelle Loewen, leading to a departure of Weber from the company, when Loewen was transferred to SmackDown! (she was later freed). Loewen claimed that he vandalized her possessions & directed racist remarks towards her, calling him "an animal''". It should even so become noted that Orton's friend Mark Jindrak refuted several of Loewen's accusations around an locate by owning Voice of Wrestling, & claimed that Orton experienced apologized to Loewen at a period of the 2005 Royal Rumble, & that fellow Diva Lookup contestant (and eventual winner) Christy Hemme denied what she knew of the allegations in an locate by using The Sun ^{[http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2003560001-2005380448,00.html]}.

Around late 2004 & early 2005, it was rumored that Orton was inside the relationship using Stacy Keibler after appearing on WWE Raw together, however neither Orton nor Keibler ever confirmed a relationship.

Trivia
Though Orton is a immature Globe Heavyweight Champion in a history of WWE, he is lone the 4th spring chicken to hang on to the title belt itself. Lou Thesz won a title at a age of Twenty-one once it was referred to as the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, The Giant won a belt whenever it was referred to as the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at the age of Twenty-three, & Kerry Von Erich won a belt at the age of Two dozen years & tierce months around May 1984 when it was known as a NWA Globe Heavyweight Championship. Orton began his step by step instruction & mass produced his sales person debut at a above mentioned MMWA-SICW or even South Broadway Athletic Club when these are known within Saint Louis, Missouri, trained by such wrestlers there when Ron Powers, Gary Jackson, Mark Bland, Jeremy Lightfoot, Phil E. Blunt & promoter Tony Costa also when father, Cowboy Bob Orton. This occurs as organization that was the off-branch of the old Wrestling at the Chase headed by Sam Munchnick between 1950-1983. His entrance music (called Burn around Our Weak) is performed by Mercy Drive. He began applying it the week when spitting in the face of Triple H and refusing to surrender the World Heavyweight Championship. The title of Orton's finishing move (a "R.K.O.") occurs as information to the initials of his to the full title (Randall One thousandeith Orton).

Championships and accomplishments

World Wrestling Entertainment
1-instance World Heavyweight Champion 1-instance WWE Intercontinental Champion

Ohio Valley Wrestling
2-period OVW Hardcore Champion

Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI Cub of the Season Award (2001) PWI Virtually all Improved Award (2004) PWI Top 500 ranked total Twenty-nine (2005)