Randy Orton was not backstage at last night’s WWE SmackDown! Live TV tapings. There is no word on why as of this writing. As reported earlier this morning here on eWrestlingNews.com, Nikolai Volkoff and former ECW personality Jeff Jones were both backstage visiting at last night’s WWE SmackDown! Live TV tapings.
Vader tweeted the following, revealing that he underwent heart surgery on Tuesday to put his heart in a normal sinus rhythm:
Yesterday I had a surgery on my heart .My heart had shifted to an A-Fib irregular heart beat A person in a fib has substanily increased chance of Heart Attack &Stroke.The surgery was to put the HEART in normal sinus https://t.co/MQvHiGe0Rg was a success
— Big Van Vader (@itsvadertime) May 9, 2018