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On an episode of WWE Confidential, he admitted that his forearm injury in the [[1985]] match with [[Jimmy Snuka]] was not a [[work (professional wrestling)|work]], and did not heal when he wore the cast. It wouldn't heal fully until he left the WWF in 1987. |
On an episode of WWE Confidential, he admitted that his forearm injury in the [[1985]] match with [[Jimmy Snuka]] was not a [[work (professional wrestling)|work]], and did not heal when he wore the cast. It wouldn't heal fully until he left the WWF in 1987. |
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He was also a gay guy and married a man then made out ith randy orton |
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*[http://www.bodyslamming.com/wwe/ortonjr.html Bob Orton at Bodyslamming.com] |
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*[http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/ Solie's title histories] |
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Bob Orton, Jr. | |
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Born | Kansas City, Kansas | November 10, 1950
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | "Ace Cowboy" Bob Orton "Boxing" Bob Orton The Invader "Cowboy" Bob Orton |
Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) |
Billed weight | 242 lb (110 kg) |
Billed from | Kansas City, Kansas |
Trained by | Hiro Matsuda, Eddie Graham, Jack Brisco |
Debut | 1972 |
Retired | 2006 |
Robert Keith Orton, Jr. (born November 10, 1950 in Kansas City, Kansas) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Cowboy" Bob Orton. He is the father of Randy Orton, who is signed to World Wrestling Entertainment. Orton's father, Bob Orton, Sr., and brother, Barry O, were also professional wrestlers.
Career
Orton started wrestling in 1972 in the Florida and Georgia territories, sometimes performing under a mask and using the name "Young Mr. Wrestling." He often teamed with his father, Bob Orton. He made a name for himself in the early to mid-1980s in the National Wrestling Alliance, where he formed a tag team with Don Kernodle and won the NWA World Tag Team Championship. Orton was also involved in an angle where he and Dick Slater accepted a $25,000 offer by then NWA World Champion Harley Race to end the career of Ric Flair in 1983. Orton, Slater, and Race attacked Flair and delivered a spike piledriver, "injuring" Flair's neck. Flair subsequently "retired" then returned and assaulted Slater and Orton with a baseball bat.
In 1984, Orton re-joined the World Wrestling Federation as a heel. He was often addressed as "Ace" Orton by Roddy Piper, and was Piper's bodyguard. His other gimmick was that he had supposedly had his left forearm broken in a match with Jimmy Snuka at the 1985 event "The War To Settle The Score" in Madison Square Garden, requiring him to wear a cast for the rest of 1985 and early 1986. He used the cast to illegally win his matches by striking opponents with it behind the back of the referee.
'Cowboy' Bob was involved in the main event of the very first WrestleMania at Madison Square Garden in 1985, being in the corner of Piper and 'Mr. Wonderful' Paul Orndorff in their match against Hulk Hogan and Mr. T. Bob accidentally cost his team the match after an attempted cheat backfired, resulting in him hitting Orndorff with the cast. Orton also will go down in history for having shared the main event against WWF Champion Hulk Hogan on the premiere episode of Saturday Night's Main Event on NBC broadcast May 11, 1985. Orton lost by disqualification due to the interference of Piper.
Orton remained with Piper for the remainder of 1985, feuding with Orndorff and a variety of partners, such as Hogan, André the Giant, and Bruno Sammartino. In early 1986, Orton began wearing a cast as a neutralizer and the WWF ordered both men to remove the cast.
Orton was dubbed "Boxing" Bob in early 1986 after the cast came off and fought Mr. T on an episode of Saturday Night's Main Event. This match served as a setup for the Piper-Mr. T match at WrestleMania 2 during which Orton was introduced as "Ace in Comedy and Funnyman" by guest ring announcer Joan Rivers who misread the card.
Piper and Orton went their separate ways after WrestleMania, with Piper taking a hiatus and Orton in the meantime becoming the bodyguard for Piper's talk-segment successor Adorable Adrian Adonis; Adonis had Orton wear a pink cowboy hat. Orton would turn against Piper when Piper returned to reclaim his segment time from Adonis and Piper and Orton wrestled in many matches throughout the country, typically with Piper winning. During this time, Orton formed a tag team with Don Muraco, with the duo managed by Mr. Fuji. They won several matches and appeared at WrestleMania III, losing to the Can-Am Connection. They split up during the summer of 1987 on bad terms.
Orton returned to the NWA briefly in 1989 before returning to the independent circuit. He retired from wrestling in 1999. Orton returned to the ring at Millennium Wrestling Federation Soul Survivor II [1] in November 2004, teaming with Todd Hanson and Beau Douglas to defeat "The Ugandan Giant" Kamala, Gino Marktino, and Ox Baker's Executioner.
World Wrestling Entertainment
On February 3, 2005, Bob Orton was announced as a 2005 inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame.
In the weeks preceding WrestleMania 21, Orton became entangled in his son Randy's feud with The Undertaker. During an episode of SmackDown!, Orton begged The Undertaker to show mercy on his son in order to distract The Undertaker long enough for his son to sneak into the ring and hit the RKO. At WrestleMania, he (unsuccessfully) interfered in the match between Orton and The Undertaker, striking The Undertaker with his cast.
On August 21, 2005, at SummerSlam, Orton interfered in a rematch between Randy and The Undertaker, this time enabling his son to defeat The Undertaker. Orton then began accompanying Randy to ringside during his matches, and teamed with his son at No Mercy on October 9, 2005, defeating The Undertaker in a handicap casket match. The Ortons teamed together once again on the October 28, 2005 episode of Smackdown!, joining forces with Ken Kennedy to face Roddy Piper, Batista, and Eddie Guerrero in a six man tag team match. The match ended in defeat for the Ortons when Bob succumbed to Piper's sleeper hold.
On the December 16, 2005 episode of SmackDown!, Orton disguised himself as one of the Undertaker's druids and carried The Undertaker's signature urn to ringside as The Undertaker came to the ring to confront Randy. Orton remained at ringside after the other druids had left, distracting The Undertaker and enabling Randy to attack him. Orton then handed Randy the urn, which Randy used to knock The Undertaker unconscious.
At Armageddon 2005, Orton (still holding the urn) accompanied Randy to ringside for his Hell in a Cell match with The Undertaker. He interfered in the match several times, but was ultimately unable to prevent The Undertaker from delivering a Tombstone Piledriver to both Ortons and then covering Randy for the win. Bob Orton bladed during the match and bled on both Randy and The Undertaker; this resulted in controversy when he was later widely reported to be suffering from the blood-borne disease hepatitis.[citation needed]
On February 13, 2006, Orton was released from WWE.
Orton currently works as a performer for Tennessee Mountain Wrestling located in Knoxville.
In wrestling
Finishing and signature moves
- Superplex
- Bionic elbow
- Bulldog
- Piledriver
- Signature foreign object: Cast
Managers
- Paul E. Dangerously
- The Duke
- Mr. Fuji
- The Grand Wizard of Wrestling
- Gary Hart
- Jimmy Hart
- Sir Oliver Humperdink
- Adnan El Kassey
- John Tolos
Championships and accomplishments
- AWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- NWA Georgia Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Tim Woods (1) and Dick Slater (1)
- Mid-South Mississippi Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Midwest Powerhouse Wrestling
- MPW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Powerhouse Championship Wrestling
- PCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- PWI Rookie of the Year award in 1973
- PWI ranked him # 121 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003.
- NWA Southeast Tag Team Championship (4 times) - with Bob Roop (1), Ron Garvin (2), and Jerry Blackwell (1)
- Other Titles
- WWS Television Championship (1 time)
Filmography
- Tweak the Heat (2005/06) - appears in
Personal life
Orton is married to Elaine Orton, a nurse at Christian Hospital NE in Missouri, and they have three children: Randy, Rebekah, and Nathan. Bob and Elaine are to become grandparents for the first time in the summer through their son Randy. He now lives in Florissant, Missouri. Bob and Curt Hennig were really good friends.
On an episode of WWE Confidential, he admitted that his forearm injury in the 1985 match with Jimmy Snuka was not a work, and did not heal when he wore the cast. It wouldn't heal fully until he left the WWF in 1987.