Will ‘The Viper’ RKO Himself out of the WWE?

Randy Orton was suspended for 60 days as he violated the WWE’s Wellness Policy for a second time.

At the time of the drug test, he was found to have marijuana and Dianabol in his system. While marijuana only enforces a $2,500 fine under ‘Wellness’, Dianabol is a controlled substance banned by the United States Congress.

Orton is no stranger to being in trouble with the WWE.

A well-known muckraker backstage, Orton has been suspended many times in his tenure with the promotion.

One instance in 2006 saw him suspended for behavioral/drug problems. He was written out at the time by having him stay in Kurt Angle’s Angle Lock a big too long.

Another instance in 2007 saw Orton trash a hotel room during an overseas tour. Orton was sent home early from that tour. He also worked the next little while without pay.

Orton would also suffer his first strike with ‘Wellness’ that year by his involvement in the Signature Pharmacy scandal. As you may recall, Signature was an online pharmaceutical that distributed illegal anabolic steroids amongst other drugs to clients via the mail. Orton was one amongst many names leaked in the investigation.

This current suspension however is a very uncomfortable time for both WWE and Orton.

With the suspension, WWE is temporarily losing one of their biggest draws. On a roster thin of main event talent, this will allow somewhat-lower tier superstars to step up. The problem is that Orton is a big enough name where if the man was advertised, and he didn’t show up (even if the subject to change clause was enforced), refunds would be handed out. This happened with John Cena just over a year ago when he was injured for a short time, and many people walked out on Live events due to this inability to appear.

For Orton, it’s another in a long list of setbacks. After his first ‘Wellness’ violation, it seemed as if Orton was finally getting his act together. He had won multiple world championships with the organization, headlined Wrestlemania multiple times, and is even one of the more respected veterans in the locker room. In addition, Orton will not be paid during this down time, which has to affect his family back at home.

With news coming out about Orton’s future in the WWE being in jeopardy, it must be noted that this is the absolute definition of ‘a rock and a hard place’.

Randy is a top-drawing superstar in the WWE wherever they go. He consistently puts on top-tier matches, and gets the reactions to match. WWE on the other hand can’t trust a man who not only has had issues in the past, but only has one more strike until he is released per policy.

What do you think of this ‘venomous’ issue? Do you think Orton is done with WWE, or will he come back as if nothing ever happened? Comment below, or even bring the talk to Twitter or Facebook!

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Kyle Busch, Puerile NASCAR Driver, Parked for Weekend!

For a rare NASCAR article, this one is a biggie.

Last night in the Camping World Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, “the line was crossed”, so to speak.

Kyle Busch in his own #18 Toyota was racing Ron Hornaday in the #33 Chevy that was running for the championship in the series. Both of them made it three wide in turn two after coming up on the lapped truck of Johnny Chapman, who quite frankly is to this race what Charlie Kimball is to the Indianapolis 500. If you want to see where my analogy comes from, please read this entry.

Or watch this. Doesn’t matter.

With how this three-wide deal, even for a split second, affects the aerodynamics on the trucks, it seems that one of those trucks was bound to get hairy.

And it was Hornaday’s.

Ron, who is a former four-time champ of the series, got loose (or the rear tires slipped out from under him) in the center of the turn, ran up into Kyle, and they both tagged the wall.

Caution is out by the time both damaged trucks hit the backstretch.

Busch, obviously and understandably displeased, runs up the tailgate of Hornaday’s truck, and sends him head-on into the wall in turn three. Busch wrecked his own truck in the process.

And away we go!

This is where the proverbial shit hits the fan.

Kyle, who has had history of immature on-track behavior, was parked for the rest of the night.

In a move not seen since 2005 for the higher-up division, NASCAR has parked Busch for the rest of the weekend. That means Kyle won’t be in the Nationwide race, or in the Sprint Cup race, where he is amongst the twelve men running for the title in “The Chase”.

While I’m not surprised, I am really disappointed in the man also known as “Shrub”.

The younger Busch brother (whose older brother Kurt is a former Sprint Cup champion), has had one of those seasons where when it looked like he was going to be a role model, he achieves something so stupid it really brings home the moniker, “one step forward, two steps backward.”

Let’s all go back to the Showtime Southern 500 Sprint Cup race from Darlington in South Carolina.

Kyle, who had been racing with Kevin Harvick in the #29 quite hard, sent Harvick careening into not only Kevin’s teammate Clint Bowyer (who wrecked), but also got spun from the right rear fender as well. That usually means WAR!

Post-race, Kevin got out of his car (engine shut off) to show his displeasure to Busch. Kyle wants none of it, and punts Harvick’s car right into the pit road wall, with no one at the wall and no engine on. The actions of both men would slap them with four-race probation periods.

To figure, Regan Smith’s win was totally ignored.

Now let’s all go back to Texas.

Hornaday’s truck is owned by KHI, or Kevin Harvick Incorporated. Delana, who is Kevin’s wife, is the written owner of the truck. The team was going for the truck title, but now is officially out of the hunt following the on-track skirmish.

While the inadvertent ironies are enough for this angle, I will say this: Kyle better step up, or step aside. A man boy with too much talent should be focusing on the big picture, not on wrecking people he doesn’t race with on a regular basis. It also wouldn’t hurt sometimes to check your ego at the door when it’s time to eat humble pie.

Oh, did I tell you the last man NASCAR parked for the weekend in Cup was Kyle’s older brother Kurt for “blowing too much”? When I mean that, I mean DWI kids.

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