Randy Orton

Durante uma entrevista ao WWE Magazine, Randy Orton falou da sua recente suspensão de 60 dias por uso de drogas. Randy disse:...

"That was really hard for me," Orton says of the suspension. "Not because of how fans would look at me or how my folks would look at me. To be honest, my mom and dad were happy that I had 60 days off. I was worked to the bone for the last four years. What really hurt most about this suspension is that, when my [4-year-old] daughter's older, she can go back and [read about me online]."

Save for the occasional Twitter post, Orton refrains from using social media due to the venom some people have directed toward him and his family online. He now regrets revealing his family life in last year's WWE DVD release on his career, The Evolution of a Predator.

"I look back at my DVD that came out last year, and I had my wife and daughter on there," Orton said. "I really, really, kick myself for doing that. It was a good story, but it just gives people ammunition. For all the good that me doing what I do has done for my family, there are just as many negatives."

There are numerous pages on social media outlets Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter, and other websites, dedicated to Orton and his private life. Some, however, are quite venomous and publish false information, which is his main source of contention. In his battle for privacy, Orton has taken matters into his own hands by personally contacting websites that have published alleged accounts of his outside-the-ring matters and demanded that it be taken down.

He says of this new age of social media where wrestlers' personal lives are exposed, "Instead of being able to tune in a few hours a week and watch us on TV, they can talk about us, claim to have knowledge about every aspect of our personal lives, type this knowledge, and then it's written as truth."

Randy Orton já deixou bem claro que pretende trabalhar como heel em vez da sua actual persona de babyface. Questionando no twitter sobre esse assunto, Randy respondeu: "Where I'm a HEEL."

Segundo reporta a F4W, Orton está desesperado para fazer um heel turn e a WWE planeia fazer a vontade ao The Viper pois sente que Sheamus já é popular o suficiente para carregar o Smackdown.

Segundo a F4W, Randy Orton irá sofrer nos próximos seis meses um grande push para este voltar a ganhar notoriedade para voltar a lutar pelo título Mundial.

Randy Orton deverá fazer no Survivor Series o tão aguardado heel turn segundo reporta o Wrestle Zone.

Este turn de Orton está a preocupar muita gente na WWE pois este é um dos babyfaces de topo nos house-shows do Smackdown mas o sentimento geral é que Orton rende melhor como heel e para além disso, Orton sente-se mais feliz a trabalhar como heel.

Apesar de sentirem que poderá haver uma queda de bilheteira nos shows do Smackdown, os oficiais acham que Orton poderá ajudar a desenvolver um novo babyface que possam equilibrar essa bilheteira