Interesting Randy Orton Statistic, WWE Pulls Leaked Raw Footage From YouTube

November 11, 2013

Interesting Randy Orton Statistic

Thanks to John Finnegan for sending in the following:

According to NorthAmericanWrestlingRankings.blogspot.com, which started keeping track of wrestlers’ records and ranking them as of Nov. 2006, when Randy Orton defeated Dolph Ziggler on the 10/21/13 episode of Raw it was his 300th televised singles match. That makes him the first wrestler to reach this milestone. [He has had 2 televised singles matches since then for a total of 302 matches].

The only other active wrestlers to have had more than 200 tv/ppv matches [as of 11/11/13] are:

CM Punk: 290

Kane: 245

Kofi Kingston: 244

John Cena: 239

Dolph Ziggler: 230

The Miz: 209

The Big Show: 205

Jeff Hardy: 202 [combined WWE & TNA]

[NOTE: these records count t.v. and ppv singles matches since Nov. 2006 ONLY].

WWE Pulls Leaked Raw Footage From YouTube

Citing a copyright claim, WWE pulled two videos from YouTube that leaked from Raw last week.

One video featured Michael Cole and the announce team preparing for the Raw broadcast, and you could hear Cole talking about how a wrestler was going to be put through a table later in the show.

The other video featured The Miz, Dolph Ziggler and Big E. Langston preparing for a WWE App segment, during which Ziggler was using expletives and "colorful" language.

Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.

Nick attended New York University and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Drama.

Nick first entered the internet wrestling community back in 2004 when he became the co-host of The Voice of Wrestling Radio Show. From there, Nick made the transition from radio personality to editor when he began working with WrestleZone in 2008.

Nick is a member of two Off-Broadway theatre companies, Another Urban Riff, and the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company. Nick has appeared in over a dozen Off-Broadway plays since he moved to New York City, and has shot several short and feature length films. In 2010, he completed principle photography on a film titled "How to Score Your Life," which also features TNA Knockout ODB.

Inspiration in his life has come from many people including his family, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, The Beatles, and of course, Lassie.