Top Nerologists Told Randy Orton He Would Have To Stop Wrestling

Randy Orton was recently interviewed by Sportskeeda, where he discussed several topics. Among them were his serious back injury, on what he learned from his father regarding storytelling, and more.

Below are some highlights from the interview:

Orton on his recent back injury:

“I had top neurologists telling me, ‘You know what? You had a great career, you have a life after wrestling, and you wanna be comfortable. You don’t wanna be in pain the rest of your life. We’re gonna fix your back, but you’re gonna have to stop wrestling’. The first six months that I was out, I had that in the back of my head, and it was tough. It was mentally very challenging.”

Orton on how he was able to return to the ring:

“Didn’t really know what the future held for me, but I was able to find a couple of doctors that had done the exact surgery that I needed on some MMA guys that went back to the octagon, competed, and were successful and had longer careers, so I knew that these were the doctors that I needed to have put me under and go under the knife with.”

Orton on storytelling:

“That’s what we do. We’re storytellers, right? And we can tell a story within a story a lot of times, not because you came up with it the night before or before the match or while you were talking about spots, but it happens organically in the middle of that ring, and you can’t call that in the back. You have to listen to the crowd and gauge how they’re feeling, what they wanna see, what they might not wanna see, tease them, and know how to sell accordingly. I learned that from my old man.”

 

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