10 Facts About Rated-RKO

Rated-RKO was a professional wrestling tag team in World Wrestling Entertainment consisting of Edge and Randy Orton, with Lita as their manager for a short while.

Edge and Orton formed an alliance in October 2006 to challenge the team of Triple H and Shawn Michaels, collectively known as D-Generation X, whom Rated-RKO felt were preventing them from becoming world champions.

Rated-RKO would succeed in defeating D-X, giving the latter their first loss since their reunion in June 2006.

In January 2007, Rated-RKO lost the World Tag Team Championship, which caused tension between the two.

Edge and Orton, calling themselves "Rated-RKO", immediately became very outspoken against D-X and began mocking them at every opportunity, including a sketch reminiscent of the ones D-X did about their opponents on a usual basis.

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Later that night, Team Rated-RKO, consisting of Rated-RKO along with Johnny Nitro, Mike Knox, and Gregory Helms, were swept by Team D-X with Orton being the last member eliminated in a ten-man elimination match.

At New Year's Revolution in January 2007, Rated-RKO retained the World Tag Team Championship after fighting with D-X to a no-contest in a match that saw Triple H suffer a legitimate torn right quadriceps muscle.

The next night on Raw, Rated-RKO held a victory celebration and Shawn Michaels came out to the stage to confront Edge and Orton setting up a 2-on-1 handicap match the following week.

At the Royal Rumble, both members of Rated-RKO made it to the final four in the Royal Rumble match where The Undertaker won the match.

The following night on Raw, Orton would interrupt Edge, attacking him with the RKO and then deliver a Con-Chair-To, a move Rated-RKO used in their run as a tag team, thus turning Orton heel in the process.