{"id":160,"date":"2013-07-31T03:38:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T03:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wwe\/?p=160"},"modified":"2013-07-31T03:38:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T03:38:32","slug":"wwe-fan-attacks-randy-orton-and-big-e-langston-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/2013\/07\/31\/wwe-fan-attacks-randy-orton-and-big-e-langston-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Fan attacks Randy Orton and Big E Langston in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-161\" alt=\"randyorton\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wwe\/files\/2013\/07\/randyorton.jpg\" width=\"642\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2013\/07\/randyorton.jpg 642w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2013\/07\/randyorton-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A WWE fan has attacked two wrestlers in Cape Town, South Africa during the company&#8217;s tour of events there.<\/p>\n<p>A fan jumped over the security railing and hit Randy Orton between the legs. The fan does not appear to get a good shot in and well lets be honest Orton would be stupid to not be wearing a cup.<\/p>\n<p>After the attack Orton goes to approach the fan who is escorted away by security. Orton then goes back to his turnbuckle celebration to the crowds cheering.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ofPKXHGKJbk\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fan is also said to have attacked Big E Langston. You can briefly see Langston in the above video.<\/p>\n<p>WWE issued the following statement on the incident:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight Randy Orton was violently attacked from behind by a South African fan, who is currently being held in jail pending criminal charges. The extent of Orton\u2019s injuries are unknown at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WWE fan has attacked two wrestlers in Cape Town, South Africa during the company&#8217;s tour of events there. A fan jumped over the security railing and hit Randy Orton between the legs. The fan does not appear to get a good shot in and well lets be honest Orton would be stupid to not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-randy-orton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}