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Only a few Superstars have gotten in the ring with Bad Bunny in singles matches, but future WWE Hall of Famer Randy Orton wants next. During an interview with Complex, Orton talked about Travis Scott potentially wrestling, pointing at Bunny as a blueprint. If Scott follows in Bunny’s footsteps, he will be just fine. “He’ll […]

Ever since he came back from his 18-month hiatus in 2023, WWE has seen Randy Orton do some of the best work of his career, and he may be around for the long haul if his next contract desires are any indicator. Speaking to Complex, Orton, 45, recently signed a five-year contract extension with WWE. […]

Like every year, WWE WrestleMania 41 features a stacked card with most of the top Superstars. However, some stars will miss the event, whether it be for injuries like Kevin Owens or just not having a storyline to be a part of. Either way, most fans will be pleased with who is on the card. […]

As injuries wreck the professional wrestling world, with every major promotion losing at least one notable performer due to one thing or another, WWE can officially add Kevin Owens to that list, with rumors suggesting that “The Prize Fighter’s” WrestleMania 41 match could be called into question as a result. Well, on SmackDown, KO and […]

According to a new report, Kevin Owens may have suffered an injury, and that could put his WWE WrestleMania 41 match against Randy Orton in “jeopardy.” Per PW Nexus, Owens is dealing with an “undisclosed injury” and does not have a timetable for his return. With only 15 days left before WrestleMania 41, his match […]

Someone revealed the DMs of someone who referenced the 2009 heel run of WWE legend Randy Orton while sliding into them. The “Viper” responded to the post. He took to X, formerly Twitter, to respond to the thread of messages. The person who received the messages said, “Bro is NOT getting my number. The first […]

On the latest episode of NXT, WWE legend Randy Orton made a surprise appearance to face Je’Von Evans in a match. Despite a crucial botch at the end, Orton supported his opponent. Towards the end of the match, Evans attempted to hit a second top-rope RKO-like cutter on Orton. After successfully hitting the first, he […]

A lot of fans will agree that Randy Orton is one of the WWE’s main attractions. As a generational superstar, Orton is one of the most decorated wrestlers in the industry, which has helped Orton amass a net worth of $7 million. His stacked resume includes 14 World Championship reigns, one United States championship, one […]

After securing a win in the opening match of Bash in Berlin, beating Kevin Owens in a match that had more to do with the ties of friendship than anything particularly compelling in the ring, fans of WWE around the globe had one question in mind: who will Cody Rhodes wrestle next. Now sure, working […]

After landing his first one-on-one loss to Gunther at King and Queen of the Ring since his return at Survivor Series 2023 in Chicago, Illinois, Randy Orton has been keeping a close eye on the “Ring General,” looking for his chance to strike one of the heaviest hitters in the WWE on his home turf […]

The first ever Bash in Berlin WWE PLE has a stacked match card, including Gunther taking on Randy Orton, Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley vs. Dominik Mysterio and Liv Mordan, and CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre in a strap match. Unlike most B-level WWE PLEs, Bash in Berlin has high stakes and hot feuds. The […]

Machine Gun Kelly walked Logan Paul out at the WWE’s 2024 SummerSlam and allegedly confronted Randy Orton backstage. During an appearance on the Impaulsive podcast, MGK recalled the experience. He apparently heard Orton “talk s**t” about him, so he got in his face and said, “f**k you.” MGK states he heard that Randy Orton was […]

For the vast majority of his WWE career, Randy Orton has been a heel and darn good at it. Now sure, every once in a while Orton would put on a smile and do the right thing for a time, but even the most optimistic fan had to know that such moments were only fleeting, […]

With Cody Rhodes set to wrestle his friend Kevin Owens at Bash in Berlin as a sort of favor for always having his back, more than a few fans have had one question in particular about the “American Nightmare’s” future schedule: why not give a similar shot to Randy Orton? On paper, it makes sense, […]

While he is primarily known for being a 14-time WWE world champion, Randy Orton almost went Hollywood in Deadpool 2. The Viper revealed that he could have been in a Marvel movie. During an interview with Cody Rhodes, Orton said that he does auditions for projects “here and there.” Among these was the Ryan Reynolds-led […]

WWE Superstar and future Hall of Famer Randy Orton made it clear this week that he isn’t a fan of Los Angeles Lakers star and NBA legend LeBron James. During an appearance on Cody Rhodes’ What Do You Wanna Talk About? on WWE’s YouTube channel, Orton was not receptive to James being considered one of […]

In the middle of the Money in the Bank, John Cena shocked the world by announcing that he is retirement from WWE, with his final match coming at the end of 2025, not at WrestleMania 41. Fans were shocked by the surprise announcement, excited that he has some nine months left in the ring, and […]

When news broke that Vince McMahon was exiting WWE for the second time in 18 months, this time right before the Royal Rumble due to incredible backlash from Slim Jim and others during the initial fallout of the Janel Grant lawsuit, fans, wrestlers, and pundits alike wondered just how hands-off the former WWE Chairman of […]

When it comes to wrestlers in the WWE Universe who have benefitted greatly from Vince McMahon, it’s hard to find a name more prominent than Randy Orton. A third-generation WWE Superstar who signed with the promotion at the turn of the century and has been employed consistently ever since, Orton has been booked like one […]

When Randy Orton listed Austin Theory and his tag team partner, Grayson Waller, among the hottest young stars in the WWE, it turned heads from all around, including that of “A-Town’s finest.” Asked how it feels to be a favorite of Orton in an appearance on the Battleground podcast, Theory called the situation surreal, noting […]

When Randy Orton and Kevin Owens walked out to the ring at Backlash, the crowd in Lyon, France, met the “Viper” with a hero’s welcome, singing the words to his theme song and leaving a genuine smile on both men’s faces. Discussing how special this moment was for both men on The Bump, the “Prizefighter” […]

Randy Orton has been a busy, busy man since returning to WWE last November. He’s challenged for championship belts twice, wrestled at five-straight Premium Live Events, re-started his feud with The Bloodline from pretty much the moment he was handed a microphone on his first night back on SmackDown, boldly announcing to the world that […]

After watching RAW run through the opening round of the Queen and King of the Ring tournaments, Randy Orton stopped by the backstage area of SmackDown to talk about his forthcoming match with AJ Styles in the opening round of the tournament, with both men looking to rehabilitate their pushes after taking losses in Lyon, […]

When Cody Rhodes unofficially announced that Randy Orton was returning to WWE at Survivor Series, it felt like a big deal. Suddenly, one of the biggest acts of the last era of WWE was going to debut under the new Paul “Triple H” Levesque era, and fans would get to see how the pairing would […]

With WWE Backlash rapidly approaching, Paul Heyman had one thing and one thing alone on his mind: getting The Bloodline‘s match with Kevin Owens and Randy Orton called off, but not for the reasons you might think. But why? Does he want to avoid the risk of the faction taking a loss to a pair […]

When Nick Aldis broke the news that not only was Logan Paul unlikely to receive a mandated apology from Randy Orton on SmackDown, but he’d actually be facing the “Viper” and his Royal Rumble opponent, Kevin Owens, in a Triple Threat match at WrestleMania 40 with the United States Championship on the line, it left […]

When Nick Aldis announced to the fans in Memphis, Tennessee, and watching SmackDownthe world over that Logan Paul was going to be defending the United States Championship in a Triple Threat match at WrestleMania 40 against Kevin Owens and Randy Orton, it earned a horrible reaction from the “Maverick.” Suddenly, after having to pull out […]

In the penultimate match of the Elimination Chamber, WWE decided to set history aside to run the Men’s Elimination Chamber match third on the four-match card, tipping the cap to Rhea Ripley for helping to sell some 50,000 tickets to her countrymen in Perth. An unusual decision? You bet; the star power of the men’s […]

Though he isn’t technically booked on the Elimination Chamber card, Seth Rollins will be watching the show with a vested interest all the same, as one of the six men in the show’s namesake match, Drew McIntyre, Randy Orton, Bobby Lashley, LA Knight, Kevin Owens, or Logan Paul, will ultimately punch their ticket to WrestleMania […]

When Randy Orton went down with a back injury in the spring of 2022, fans knew it was bad, as he was held out of action for 18 months with a good stretch of that time featuring very little news in the way of positive progression, but few knew the true extend of his discomfort… […]

When WWE announced that Survivor Series would be coming to the greater Chicago area for a Thanksgiving weekend Premium Live Event at the end of November, no one pegged the day as the special return day for CM Punk, or even Randy Orton for that matter, either. At the time, Punk was still a member […]

If there’s one member of the active WWE roster with a clear connection to Vince McMahon, it’s Randy Orton. Now sure, some will point to Roman Reigns being Mr. McMahon’s chosen champion for the better part of a decade, with the “Billion Dollar Booker” giving him chance after chance after chance at the top of […]

Before he was calling out Seth Rollins ahead of the Royal Rumble or setting the new record for the longest Intercontinental Championship reign in history, Gunther was impressing the absolute heck out of Shelton Benjamin, a technical specialist who worked alongside the “Ring General” in WWE for the first two years of his main roster […]

After making his fun, feel-good return at Survivor Series as the final member of Cody Rhodes’ WarGames team and working a few matches since against the likes of Dominik Mysterio and Jimmy Uso, Randy Orton will be thrown directly in the deep end at the Royal Rumble, where he will go toe-to-toe against Roman Reigns, […]

When John Cena took a crushing loss to Solo Sikoa at Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia, finding himself on the wrong end of about a dozen Samoan Spikes before being pinned in the middle of the ring for the 1-2-3, it felt like a pretty definitive moment in the career of “The Face That Runs […]

When Cody Rhodes broke the news that Randy Orton was returning to WWE for the first time in 18 months for his WarGames debut at Survivor Series, it felt like a phenomenal way to add some excitement and surprise to WWE’s final major Premium Live Event of the year. … but then CM Punk returned […]

In a few short days, MJF will wrestle what might just be the most important match of his AEW World Championship reigns in front of his hometown crowd in Long Island, when he goes toe-to-toe with one of the biggest, baddest dudes to ever do it in the business, Samoa Joe, at Worlds End. If […]

After watching Randy Orton seemingly skip the line to become the number one contender for Roman Reigns’ Undisputed WWE Universal Championship at the Royal Rumble, LA Knight earned some rare good news on SmackDown when, alongside the “Viper” and AJ Style, he was booked for a three-way match at New Year’s Revolution to decide on […]

Hulk Hogan has forgotten more about professional wrestling than most will ever know, even if that occasionally bites him in the behind due to his less-than-perfect recollection. He was the biggest act in WWE and WCW history during their respective glory days, a legitimate movie star even if he’s been called an all-time bad actor […]