Personal Life
Orton is married to Elaine Orton, a nurse at Christian Hospital NE in Missouri, and they have three children: sons, Randy (also a professional wrestler), and Nathan (a mixed-martial arts fighter), and a daughter, Becky. Orton also has two grandchildren, who are the offspring of son Randy Orton and his wife, and daughter Becky Orton and her husband. He now lives in Florissant, Missouri. Bob Orton and Curt Hennig were very close 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.
Orton was also diagnosed with Hepatitis C as a teenager. During Randy Orton's Hell in a Cell match with the Undertaker at Armageddon 2005, Orton was cut open at the hands the Undertaker, though the Undertaker did not become infected with the Hepatitis C virus. Orton reportedly told WWE booker Johnny Ace that he had Hepatitis C, but Ace still ordered the beating to take place despite knowing that there was a chance The Undertaker would become infected with the Hepatitis C virus.
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