Urlacher's missing neck wrote:
RKO could not have worn the pants in this relationship.
TMZ ran a story on the divorce of Randy Orton. Orton, 33, and wife, the former Samantha
Speno, who got married in 2007, separated last year, and she filed for divorce in March.
According to court documents, she claimed the marriage was “irretrievably broken.” The
couple has a four-year-old daughter. The key note in the document is that it claims Orton
earns $3.5 million annually. Orton had signed a ten-year deal a few years back, when he and
Cena were considered the top two guys in the company. Even though Orton really hasn’t
been pushed as such, he is probably the third ranking wrestler on the roster behind Cena and
Punk, given he’s the guy they use as the drawing card generally on the second tour. I’m
presuming that figure would be his income with everything figured in, because the very top
WWE talent works with $1 million downside guarantees (even Cena does and HHH when he
was active full-time did and still does as far as his wrestling portion of his salary goes). But
given his position on the shows and his merchandise sales, that number was higher than I
expected as far as total salary.
One person with familiarity to such numbers said the report of
a $291,666 per month salary is “laughable,” and that Orton may have had some specific
months that big when there was a major PPV that he was in a key match, but noted his
guaranteed contract is nowhere close to that level. Without knowing him in specific, but
knowing people at the same level, I would expect his annual guarantee to be the same $1
million per year and his annual income being significantly above that. It’s pretty well known that the top tier in the company earn $1 million downside and nobody is contracted for more except the attractions like Rock and Lesnar.
In the split, Orton gets the 2012 Range Rover, the 2011 Bentley and 2009 Harley Davidson.
Samantha gets the 2013 Infiniti. Orton gets several bank accounts worth in excess of
$100,000 apiece, his gun collection, his jewelry and one of the couple’s two houses, plus
everything related to the remainder of his WWE contract. Samantha gets one bank account
with $654,317 in interest, her jewelry (including an engagement ring worth $99,000) and the
other house. She gets full custody of their four-year-old daughter but he gets visitation rights,
and will pay $54,000 in child support. His ex-wife came from a fairly well off family.
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Drop In wrote:
I'm picturing a 12 year old Bob Loblaw bitching out a Randy Savage Wrestling Buddy for botching his finisher. Also envisioning Bob Loblaw getting bitched at for lighting the living room table on fire for said finisher.