10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Randy Orton

5. He’s Failed The Wellness Policy Two Times

In April 2006, Randy Orton was suspended for unprofessional conduct. He later revealed that he had been smoking pot backstage, and someone saw him (rumored to have been Bruce Prichard) and told management. Orton was not pleased about this, but the dude was on the job, so maybe he should have tried a little harder to hide it? Anyway, his lack of respect for the rules landed him a suspension, but not a Wellness Policy violation. That came a few months later.

In August, he became the first wrestler to actually get penalized with a violation. But he was not exactly suspended from work. He was supposed to have been sent home for a month, but he still worked TV shows during that time, just not house shows. He had his road expenses covered, but received no bonuses for those 30 days. Pretty much the mildest slap on the wrist you can get.

However, a bigger scandal was headed his way the following year, but he didn’t end up serving any time for it. Signature Pharmacy had been busted for providing illegal substances to a bunch of WWE wrestlers. Orton’s name was on that list. He wasn’t suspended for this, because management said he’d already served his time, which doesn’t exactly make a lot of sense. Plenty of wrestlers backstage rolled their eyes over that one.

He was busted again in 2012, rumored to have been because of anabolic steroids found in his system. That earned him a 60-day suspension, which he did indeed serve. No TV and no house shows this time around. Management cooled on him a bit after that, and his push has often been nowhere near as big as it was before that second failure.