Matt Hardy Recalls Speaking To Randy Orton About His Injuries From Using The RKO

Decades inside the squared circle has ultimately taken its toll on Randy Orton and the 14-time world champion has been out of action since May 2022 with a serious back injury, undergoing back fusion surgery later in the year. 

If Orton will return is unknown. The 43-year-old ordered new boots for an in-ring return so he appears to be planning to come back, but "Cowboy" Bob Orton, Randy's father, recently stated that doctors have told Orton not to wrestle again. 

Matt Hardy's career has also harmed his body and the former TNA World Heavyweight Champion recalled speaking to Orton about how a career of using the RKO as his finisher led to Orton's back problems. 

After being asked if his body had changed between his matches with The Young Bucks in 2017 and 2022, Matt stated on the Extreme Life of Matt Hardy: 

"Yes, it has, it has and there's some things... Once again, it's very weird, as you get older, it's just like you have to change things to keep your body in a certain condition and I'm constantly in a process of changing things. I actually had a lot of people that complimented the stuff at Double or Nothing and I've been doing a lot of balance training, as crazy as that sounds.

"But I've been doing balance training because just like, I had a long conversation with Randy Orton. He was talking about how messed up his body was just from doing the RKO over and over and over again and you know, I told him, 'You can only imagine how my hips and lower back feel after all those leg drops over all the years' but he was just talking about how bad his balance was, that he didn't realise and that kind of got me thinking and I've done more balance training than anything else recently and I feel like it's helped me on my movement and whatnot and hopefully my flexibility."

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