During last night’s edition of WWE SmackDown, WWE officially announced that Randy Orton would return to television on next week’s edition of SmackDown, which is the go-home show for the WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view event, scheduled to take place in Orton’s hometown of St. Louis, Missouri.

Orton has been off television since the end of December, when he was temporarily written off television during an angle involving Wade Barrett, as Orton was dealing with a back injury.