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David Michael Bautista Jr. (born January 18, 1969) is an American actor and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. He rose to fame for his several stints in WWE between 2002 and 2019. Bautista began his wrestling career in 1999 and signed with WWE (then WWF) in 2000.
David Michael "Dave" Bautista, Jr. (January 18, 1969) is an American actor, mixed martial artist, bodybuilder, and retired professional wrestler who is best known for his tenures in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) where he performed under the ring name Dave Batista or simply Batista. He is a...
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- Three people died in Batista’s front yard before he was nine. David Bautista Jr. was born in January 1969 in Washington, D.C. His father was second-generation Filipino American, while his mother Donna was of Greek descent.
- He was seriously into breakdancing as a kid. If you’ve read a few of these facty wrestler biographies of mine, you know most famous pro wrestlers started off as gifted amateur athletes.
- A messy breakup led to him getting interested in pro wrestling. After high school, Batista got seriously into bodybuilding and, like a lot of muscle guys, fell into bouncing.
- Batista tried out for WCW. Somebody thought this guy wasn’t cut out for pro wrestling. The first stop on Batista’s journey wasn’t the indies or WWF. Instead, he unwisely stumbled into the pit of danger that was the WCW Power Plant.
- Dave Bautista Was A Breakdancer In His Youth. Long before Dave Bautista was running wild in WWE and bringing Drax The Destroyer to life, he was a young street kid looking for an escape from the violence and despair that surrounded him.
- Before He Struck It Big In WWE, Bautista Was Told He Would Never Make It In The Wrestling Business. Wrestling fans like to act like Dave Bautista shot to superstardom overnight in WWE, but the wrestler had a long journey to get to the top of the wrestling word in the early 2000s.
- Bautista's Desire To Become A Stronger Actor Led To Him Leaving Wrestling In 2010. After he worked out all the kinks in his work, Dave Bautista went on to become one of the most successful wrestlers of his time, winning multiple championships, headlining WrestleMania, and being one of the members of one of the greatest factions of the 21st Century with Evolution.
- Drax Is A Confident Character, But Bautista Was Anything But When He Auditioned. Dave Bautista's life (and career opportunities) changed draxtically (see what I did there) when he was cast as Drax The Destroyer in James Gunn's 2014 Guardians Of The Galaxy.
Think you know Batista? Think again. The hero-turned-pariah speaks with WWE.com on his roller-coaster return, his role in "Guardians of the Galaxy," what he truly thinks of Daniel Bryan, and why "Bluetista" really made his blood boil. Deal with it.
Starting today, WWE is honoring one of the greatest careers in sports-entertainment history with Batista Week, a weeklong celebration of six-time World Champion Batista. The campaign continues through this Monday, May 9, which marks the 20-year anniversary of Batista’s WWE debut on SmackDown.
