#3 Wellness Policy violation
Well, everyone knows WWE’s Wellness Policy is a joke – how else can Brock Lesnar not pop for anything in the WWE but test positive when USADA conducted examinations for his one-off fight against Mark Hunt at UFC 200?
Even still, the extent to which its guidelines have been stretched for Randy Orton makes it thoroughly laughable.
According to the rules of the Wellness Policy, any Superstar that has three strikes against his name would be released by the WWE. But as it would turn out, not Randy Orton.
Randy Orton obtained his first strike in 2006 and his second official one in 2012... but in all fairness, he should have gotten that in 2007 when his name popped up on the list that Sports Illustrated released, bearing WWE Superstars that were involved in a mini-steroid scandal with a defunct pharmaceutical.
The WWE, however, inexplicably let him off the hook then, still allowing them to keep him on the books despite popping again in 2012. And that’s not it. Today, Randy Orton has zero strikes against his name.
Apparently, he attended rehab and ‘worked’ off his strikes.
Go figure.
