Who is batista

Batista had announced that he and StrikeForce had agreed on a price and were negotiating a contract.

However, on October 1 , it was announced that Evans was forced out of the bout after a probation violation landed him back in jail. Batista would go on to win the fight by TKO at in the first round.

In addition to wrestling, Batista has been in several commercials and on several magazine covers. He was shown breakdancing in a commercial promoting WWE SummerSlam in where he did his take on a "floor routine", a routine that parodied the floor routines shown at the Olympic Games. Moreover, Batista has acted and has guest starred in several television shows as both himself and in-character as Batista.

On 7 September , he appeared on an episode of Iron Chef America as one of the judges, with snails as the theme ingredient Batista, along with Candice Michelle , Shelton Benjamin , and Josh Mathews , represented the WWE at the Democratic National Convention in an effort to persuade fans to register to vote in the Presidential election. Batista has also appeared on MTV Cribs showing his house and his cars. On 2 May , he was shown on camera where he accompanied Philippine boxer Manny Pacquiao in his fight against British boxer Ricky Hatton in which Pacquiao won in the second round.

He told the UK Sun that he loves Hatton, but Manny is in a league of his own, adding that he is thrilled to be there to support Manny before his bout.

In June , Batista made a cameo appearance as himself in an episode of the Australian soap opera Neighbours. In he made an appearance on an episode of Chuck He has also made a cameo appearance in Relative Strangers. The video showed Bautista in various locales and included his long-time friend, Imani Lee, his friend and trainer, Marrese Crump, his daughter, Athena and ex-wife Angie.

Bautista dedicated the video to Angie, who has battled ovarian cancer for several years and is in remission. In , Batista gave two controversial interviews to the British tabloid newspaper The Sun. There's a lack of passion and pride. There are guys on both shows who are lazy, couldn't care less and show no dedication. He then criticized rival wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , claiming, "I've also seen clips of their car wreck matches with A.

Styles doing his stunts. That's not wrestling. Wrestling is storytelling. Batista's backstage problems continued at a SummerSlam pay-per-view commercial shoot. It was reported that Batista got into a real-life fistfight with Booker T. The incident was reported on WWE. The fight was believed to stem from the idea that Batista considered himself to be better than the rest of the roster due to his main event status and relatively quick climb to achieve it.

It was said that wrestlers backstage were praising Booker for speaking his mind to Batista about his attitude. In August , Batista was accused of anabolic steroid use after an ESPN article released the names of wrestlers that were clients of Signature Pharmacy of Orlando, Florida , one of many pharmacies under investigation for filling illegal prescription drugs. Batista released a statement denying ESPN's allegations and was reportedly furious over the report. WWE reportedly suspended ten wrestlers named in the controversy, though Batista was not one of them.

Batista was married to a woman named Glenda in the early s and had two daughters with her, Keilani born in and Athena born in before divorcing. Batista married his second wife Angie on 13 October , yet they divorced in Before the age of 40, Batista had already become a grandfather of two grandsons: Jacob and Aiden by Keilani, his first daughter.

During his marriage with Angie, Batista became an avid collector of vintage metal lunch boxes. He admits his favorite is the Green Hornet lunch box, as it has Bruce Lee on it. This collection started when he bought Angie an ET lunchbox and she did not want to break it, so he bought a second one.

He later revealed, in his autobiography, a relationship with WWE Diva Melina Perez after the divorce from his wife in , which led to a brief angle on SmackDown! In October , his autobiography Batista Unleashed , was released. Everything now being the way it is, you can be sued for the simplest thing. Batista responded saying "I loved the guy. I despise what he did, but that doesn't erase him from my life. I fought to keep him in there and glad they did. I really learned a lot about her, and she learned a lot about me from reading the book.

She actually saw things from a different perspective from reading the book. So that was definitely therapeutic. He has numerous tattoos, including a large Chinese dragon on his back, red Kanji lettering on his upper left biceps which says "Angel" in tribute to his former wife Angie, a signature design on his upper right biceps, and a small sun on his stomach which encircles his belly button.

He also has a tattoo on his arm of the flags of the Philippines and Greece merged into one. While taking time off due to injury in , Batista had both upper arms covered in large, tribal style tattoos, including the word "DC soldier" on his right biceps.

Pro Wrestling Explore. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit this page. History Talk 0. Main article: Evolution stable. Universal Conquest Wiki. Oh yes I had good friends who just turned on me. Well, I thought they were good friends. Some of them are not with the company now. But I spoke from my heart then and I still feel that today. Maybe I chose the wrong forum to voice that opinion but I was speaking from the heart.

When we were having that discussion we were talking about the competition between Raw and Smackdown. I didn't mention anybody on Raw, but there were guys on Raw I had the same sentiment about — who were absolutely lazy, had no passion and I thought should not be there.

The same goes now. I'm putting my foot in my mouth again, but I still think there are guys on both shows who are lazy, couldn't care less and show no dedication. But we're slowly weeding those guys out. I want everybody in this company to work as hard as me, Triple H and The Undertaker do. Collectively the four Superstars became known as Evolution.

After a triceps injury at the hands of Mark Henry forced Batista to relinquish the title in January , he vowed to return. Four months into his second reign, Batista faced the Undertaker at WrestleMania Though disappointed, Batista stayed hungry and always managed to keep himself in the championship hunt for the rest of his career.

At Bragging Rights in , Batista shocked the world when he blamed Rey Mysterio for a loss to Undertaker, then attacked his former tag team partner. The grueling match at Over the Limit led to a wheelchair-bound Batista declaring "I quit!

In January , he made his long awaited return to the WWE, before quitting a second time in June of that same year. When Kurt travels to Thailand to meet his brother, he discovers he has died and seeks his revenge. After starring in films such as, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

The following year on February 25, , he made his return to WWE Raw when he attacked Ric Flair on his 70th birthday at the end of the episode sending a message to Triple H that would ultimately lead to a No Holds Barred match for WrestleMania 35 Batista added the stipulation that if he wins the match, Triple H will have to retire from in-ring competition.

As a result, Triple H was finally able to beat Batista for the first time and won the match, which ultimately led to Batista announcing his official retirement from wrestling in the WWE.

Following his retirement, he will continue with his career as an actor in Hollywood. He is one of many professional wrestlers to make the smooth transition from wrestling into the entertainment world.

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Batista tore his bicep, Orton broke his leg and Bubba Ray Dudley injured his back. On May 1, , Batista re-tore his right tricep muscle when he fell while running with his wife. His father was born in D. Dave's Filipino grandfather received U. Dave's mother has Greek ancestry. Is an accomplished break dancer, a skill used in a TV trailer for Summerslam Grew up in the Washington DC area and often worked as a bouncer at many clubs in the area. Went to the WCW Power Plant for a tryout, where they told him he'd never make it in the wrestling business.

Shares the same birth name as his father, David Michael Bautista. Has two daughters by his first wife, Keilani born in and Athena born in Also has two grandsons, Jacob and Aiden by Keilani. The third pro wrestler to go by the nickname or stagename, "Animal".

The other two were George Steele and Joe Laurinaitis. This marked Triple H's first ever loss in a "Hell in a Cell" match. Status Seeker Batista's return to power did not herald a return to progressivism. He became obsessed with gaining the acceptance of Cuba's upper classes, who had denied him membership into their exclusive social clubs.

Increasingly, his energies were devoted to amassing an even greater fortune. American mobster Meyer Lansky placed himself at the center of Cuba's gambling operation. At the same time, Batista sponsored massive construction projects -- the Havana-Varadero highway, the Rancho Boyeros airport, train lines, an underwater tunnel. Brutal and Unpopular As he delayed plans to step down from office, Batista faced growing opposition, and eventually, a popular challenge.

In the wake of Fidel Castro's Moncada assault, in , Batista suspended constitutional guarantees and increasingly relied on police tactics in an attempt to frighten the population through open displays of brutality. Though he made some political concessions between and -- lifting press censorship, releasing political prisoners including Fidel Castro and his brother Raul , allowing exiles to return -- his unpopularity continued to grow. Instability As popular unrest in Cuba intensified, Batista's police proved adept at torturing and killing young men in the cities.

But his army proved singularly inept against Fidel Castro's rebels, who were based in the mountains. Fighting Guerrillas Batista had Castro after Moncada, and let him get away with his life.

He had him prisoner at Isle of Pines and released him in a general amnesty. He could have destroyed him after the disaster of the rebels' Granma landing, and let him get away. His is a government of thieves. To have this small guerrilla band in the mountains is to his advantage, so that he can order special defense expenditures that they can steal.

Rejection Faced with Batista's military ineptness and growing unpopularity, the United States began to seek an alternative to Batista and to Fidel Castro.