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The latest on Randy Orton and his absence from both last night's Raw and the previous weekend's WWE Live events in Mexico is that he is awaiting an MRI on a damaged shoulder.
Wrestling Observer Radio discussed the situation this morning, and it turns out the 12 time WWE champ has been working with a lingering shoulder injury for a while. He dislocated it last week, and as a result, has to have it dealt with sooner rather than later. The MRI will determine if needs surgery, and for how long he'll be out.
In addition to forcing re-writes of The Viper's angle with Dean Ambrose and The Wyatt Family (which resulted in the newly booked kickoff match for this Sunday's Hell in a Cell pay-per-view (PPV)), having a Superstar with Orton's resume on the shelf at the same time as John Cena is scheduled to be off for more than a month and Brock Lesnar's dates have been used up for the year will force Creative to use some new faces.
It's expected that we'll be getting a heavy dose of Roman Reigns and Ambrose as top faces for the rest of 2015.