83 Facts About Dave Batista

Dave Batista participated in WWE events from 2002 to 2010, in 2014, and one final run from 2018 to 2019.

From 2002 to 2010, he gained fame under the ring name Batista and became a six-time world champion by winning the World Heavyweight Championship four times and the WWE Championship twice.

Dave Batista has held the World Tag Team Championship three times and the WWE Tag Team Championship once.

Dave Batista was the winner of the 2005 Royal Rumble match and went on to headline WrestleMania 21, one of the top five highest-grossing pay-per-view events in professional wrestling history.

Dave Batista has appeared in several direct-to-video films since 2009.

Related searches

Dave Batista won his lone MMA fight on October 6,2012, defeating Vince Lucero via technical knockout in the first round.

Dave Batista's mother is of Greek descent, and his father is the son of Filipino immigrants.

Dave Batista was a nightclub bouncer until he was arrested after a fight that left two patrons injured, one of whom was rendered unconscious.

Dave Batista worked as a lifeguard before pursuing a career in bodybuilding, which he credits with saving his life.

Dave Batista said he decided to turn his life around and become a wrestler after having a breakdown from the shame he felt after asking a coworker to lend him money so he could buy Christmas presents for his children.

Dave Batista then went to the World Wrestling Federation, who advised him to train with Afa Anoa'i in the Wild Samoan Training Center wrestling school, where he went to train and compete in Anoa'i's World Xtreme Wrestling promotion.

Dave Batista made his OVW debut later that year under the ring name Leviathan, where he immediately joined forces with Synn.

Dave Batista later won the OVW Heavyweight Championship from "The Machine" Doug Basham before losing the belt to The Prototype.

Dave Batista made his WWE in-ring debut in a tag team match teaming with D-Von against Faarooq and Randy Orton, pinning Orton.

Dave Batista suffered his first loss in a match against Rikishi after D-Von accidentally punched him, allowing Rikishi to take advantage and pin Dave Batista.

Dave Batista aligned himself with Ric Flair and feuded with Kane, whom he defeated at Armageddon.

In January 2003, Dave Batista joined Triple H, Ric Flair and Randy Orton to form the heel stable Evolution.

Dave Batista was sidelined for much of 2003 after he tore his right triceps muscle at a Raw live event in a tag team match alongside Orton against The Dudley Boyz.

Dave Batista teased leaving Evolution that night, but declared that he was still part of Evolution and that they tricked everyone.

Dave Batista entered anyway and went on to win the Rumble earning the right to participate in the main event of WrestleMania 21 against the World Champion of his choice.

Dave Batista became aware of the plot while sneakily eavesdropping on fellow Evolution members and signed a contract guaranteeing him a match with the World Heavyweight Champion Triple H at WrestleMania 21, thus leaving Evolution and officially turning face.

Dave Batista emphasized his departure by powerbombing Triple H through the table used for the contract signing.

Dave Batista won a rematch with Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship at Backlash.

Dave Batista won the match at Vengeance, retaining his title yet again.

Dave Batista ultimately helped his team win the match at Survivor Series.

Related searches

Dave Batista made an appearance at No Way Out and told the crowd that once his arm had healed he would return to regain the World Heavyweight Championship.

Dave Batista put out an open challenge to replace the injured Henry, which was answered by Mr Kennedy.

At The Great American Bash, Dave Batista lost this match via disqualification for failing to stop choking Mr Kennedy into the turnbuckle with his boot, but continued to attack Kennedy resulting in a laceration on his forehead so severe that it exposed his cranium and required more than 20 stitches to close.

The following month at Armageddon, Dave Batista teamed with John Cena to defeat King Booker and Finlay, putting an end to the rivalry.

Dave Batista accepted an open challenge from The Great Khali at The Great American Bash.

Dave Batista received a disqualification victory against Khali at SummerSlam after Khali used a steel chair, thus Khali retained the title again.

Dave Batista finally claimed his third World Heavyweight Championship after eight consecutive attempts, by defeating Khali in a triple threat match that included Rey Mysterio at Unforgiven.

Dave Batista won the match by leaping from the inner bamboo structure to the outer one, shortening his escape route and beating Khali to the floor.

Dave Batista then pulled an unconscious Batista on top of The Undertaker for the pinfall to retain the World Heavyweight Championship.

Dave Batista then defeated Michaels at One Night Stand in a stretcher match, thus ending their feud.

Dave Batista defeated Cena at SummerSlam, legitimating injuring Cena's neck in the process.

Dave Batista then competed in the World Heavyweight Championship championship scramble match at Unforgiven and was eight seconds away from being a four-time world champion, but Chris Jericho snuck in and pinned Kane in the waning seconds.

Dave Batista then entered a feud with former Evolution partner, Randy Orton; at Survivor Series, Dave Batista led a team of himself, CM Punk, Kofi Kingston, Matt Hardy, and R-Truth to face the team of Randy Orton, Shelton Benjamin, William Regal, Cody Rhodes, and Mark Henry.

Dave Batista was knocked out and put out of action indefinitely due to a storyline head injury.

Dave Batista's hamstring was injured at SummerSlam, in the same match that John Cena was forced out of action with a neck injury.

Dave Batista was expected to be out of action for six to eight months.

The following night on Raw, Dave Batista won a singles match against Big Show due to a distraction by John Cena, to become the number one contender for the WWE Championship at Judgment Day, which he won by disqualification.

Dave Batista went on to defeat Orton in a rematch at Extreme Rules in a Steel Cage match to capture his first WWE Championship.

Dave Batista then removed his arm vice, which turned to be fake, and attacked Orton.

Dave Batista then stated that he would not retire, but move to SmackDown instead.

Related searches

That same month at Bragging Rights, Dave Batista was unsuccessful in winning the World Heavyweight Championship in a Fatal Four-Way match including CM Punk, Rey Mysterio, and champion The Undertaker.

Dave Batista proceeded to brutally attack Mysterio, turning heel for the first time since 2005.

Dave Batista initially won the match and the title, but SmackDown General Manager Theodore Long reversed the decision because Dave Batista had hit Undertaker with a low blow behind the referee's back.

At the Royal Rumble in January 2010, Dave Batista entered the Royal Rumble match at number 30, but failed to win as he was eliminated by John Cena.

Dave Batista then became involved in WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and Bret Hart's rivalry by assisting McMahon in attacking Hart; John Cena attempted to save Hart, but was assaulted by Dave Batista.

Dave Batista won the match and thus his second WWE Championship, which resulted in Dave Batista moving back to Raw.

Dave Batista's promo was interrupted by new Raw General Manager Bret Hart, who ordered he face an injured Randy Orton to qualify for a shot at WWE Championship against Cena again at the new Fatal 4-Way pay-per-view.

Dave Batista refused and quit the company after Hart named Orton winner by forfeit.

Dave Batista's profile was moved to the alumni page on WWE's website.

Dave Batista later said in an interview that he left WWE because he "did not like the direction the company was going in".

Later that night, Dave Batista confronted Alberto Del Rio, who had been trash talking him for several weeks, and eventually attacked him with a Dave Batista Bomb.

Six days later at the Royal Rumble, Dave Batista entered the Rumble match at number 28 and last eliminated Roman Reigns to win the match, becoming the fifth wrestler to win multiple Rumble matches, and the first, and so far only multi-time Royal Rumble winner to win from the same entrant number.

Dave Batista retaliated the following week, powerbombing Del Rio through the broadcast table.

At the Elimination Chamber event and on the following Raw, Dave Batista was heavily booed by the fans during matches against Del Rio.

Dave Batista won the match at Elimination Chamber, but continued to suffer a torrid fan reaction with "Boo-tista" chants.

Dave Batista ultimately lost the triple threat match at WrestleMania after Bryan forced him to submit to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.

Dave Batista legitimately quit the WWE due to creative differences soon after.

Dave Batista was contacted to appear at WrestleMania 32 in 2016, but turned down the offer.

On December 9,2019, WWE officially announced that Dave Batista would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2020.

Dave Batista posted to Twitter, confirming his removal, citing previous obligations as a reason for why he could not attend the 2021 event.

Related searches

Dave Batista said that WWE honored his request to induct him at a future ceremony.

Dave Batista was declared as the 50th greatest wrestling villain of all time by a WWE article in 2012.

Dave Batista became a purple belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under the tutelage of Cesar Gracie.

Dave Batista worked alongside Rob Van Dam, Marrese Crump and Ja Rule on the 2010 action film Wrong Side of Town.

Dave Batista played Drax the Destroyer in the 2014 Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy, which was a critical and commercial success.

Dave Batista played Mr Hinx in the James Bond film Spectre, and starred as the villain Tong Po in the reboot of the 1989 martial arts film Kickboxer, opposite Georges St-Pierre.

Dave Batista had a minor role in the science fiction film Blade Runner 2049, released in 2017 to critical praise.

Dave Batista reprised his role as Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Dave Batista had a villainous role in Dune, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Frank Herbert, which was released to glowing reviews.

Dave Batista will appear in Glass Onion, the first sequel to the crime comedy Knives Out alongside Daniel Craig.

Dave Batista is to set to star in the fantasy-adventure film In the Lost Lands with Milla Jovovich, directed by Paul W S Anderson.

Dave Batista remarked on his 2007 appearance on MTV Cribs, "I was trying to collect my action figures, but I gave up, there became too many".

Dave Batista actually saw things from a different perspective from reading the book.

Dave Batista has appeared on MTV Cribs showing his house and cars.

Dave Batista's favorite is the 1967 Green Hornet lunchbox, as it has Bruce Lee on it.

Dave Batista has numerous tattoos, including a large dragon on his back, red kanji lettering on his upper left biceps which says "Angel", a signature design on his upper right biceps, and a small sun on his abdomen which encircles his navel.

Dave Batista has a tattoo on his arm of the flags of Greece and the Philippines.

Dave Batista endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election and appeared in an ad for his presidential campaign.