“I used to fly home in the morning and fly out in the afternoon, just so I could see my kids and my wife.” “Roddy and I, when we were in our heyday, we used to sometimes be on the road 100 days, maybe even a little bit more than that, and never get home,” Orton, Jr., recalled. In that era, though, the schedule was grueling - more so than it is today - and Orton admits he found it difficult at times to balance the demands of the job he loved and quality time with his wife, Elaine, and his three children, including his oldest son, Randy. By 1985, Orton was part of the main event at WrestleMania I at Madison Square Garden, working the corner for Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff in a tag-team match with Hulk Hogan and Mr. Over the next three decades, Orton - known best as “Cowboy” Bob Orton, the brainchild of the legendary Gary Hart - embarked on his own Hall of Fame career, rising to fame as a heel in the 1980s. You’d listen to the crowd and you kind of like that stuff - or at least I did.” “He took me to the matches a lot and I got to know them guys, and I saw these big, huge guys and I was really impressed and decided that that’s what I wanted to do.
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“I think I always kind of knew I was going to wrestle pro and follow Dad into the ring,” Orton, Jr., 66, told FOX Sports last week. Soon after, Orton’s own sons, Barry and Bob, followed their dad into the business, with his namesake, Bob Orton, Jr., eventually becoming his tag-team partner in Florida. Long before his grandson Randy was a thought, the late Bob Orton, Sr., was making a name for himself in the southeast as The Big O and El Lobo before becoming a fixture in the old World Wide Wrestling Federation, where he tag-teamed with the late Gorilla Monsoon and challenged the likes of Bruno Sammartino for the heavyweight championship in the late 1960s. “And it’s an honorable thing,” he added, “to now be included in that first paragraph.” Anything I ever did, any column that was ever written about me, the first paragraph, no matter what I’d achieved, was about my lineage and where I came from. “But it was also constant pressure, as you get older. “As a child, I was running around in cowboy boots, fantasizing about what it was going to be like when I finally got in there,” Wyatt said. So as they prepare to headline the Super Bowl of sports entertainment, it’s safe to say they’ve done their families proud. Over time, both men have proved their worth - Orton since he first took to the squared circle in Missouri in 2000 and Wyatt since his Florida debut in 2009 - and each has put to rest any concerns that he might not pan out as a pro, with Orton claiming several major titles over his career, while Wyatt has emerged as one of the promotion’s brightest young stars. “So I knew how important the Orton name was to the wrestling business,” he continued, “but I didn’t consider myself worthy of carrying on that legacy, early on.” “A lot of my friends would ask me, ‘Are you going to wrestle like your dad?’ and I’d be like, ‘Oh, no, there’s no way.’ I mean, how could I accomplish something like that? That’s my father, larger than life. “Growing up, I never really pictured myself being able to do it,” Orton told FOX Sports recently of his introduction to pro wrestling.
In fact, Wyatt’s opponent at WrestleMania 33 on Sunday, Randy Orton, is a third-generation entertainer in his own right, and once worried that he couldn’t meet the standards set by his predecessors.
It’s fitting, then, that Wyatt seems to exist in his own little world when the cameras are rolling, but he’s far from alone when it comes to current WWE stars with deep roots in the business. To me, it was wrestling, and that’s what this planet was about.” It wasn’t like I understood the world for what it was. “I thought that when grandma went to work, she was putting on her cowboy boots and her cowboy hat and having a dog-collar match. “Growing up in that atmosphere, I thought that everyone was a wrestler,” Wyatt told FOX Sports.
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