BATISTA BIO

Batista first appeared on Smackdown in 2002 He was the bodyguard for Reverend D-Von Dudley. He didn't stay too long on Smackdown though and later during that year he appeared on Monday Night Raw and quickly became good friends with Rick Flair. In January of 2003, on RAW, Evolution was put together which were Batista, Ric Flair, Triple H, and Randy Orton.

Batista won the 2005 Royal Rumble and became World Heavyweight Champion when he defeated Triple H at Wrestlemania 22. He then got drafted into Smackdown and with him came the World Heavyweight Championship belt. JBL was not going to let Batista come into Smackdown and think he was the man so JBL feuded alot with him, Batista getting the best of him. Batista teamed up with Eddie Guerrero until the sad loss of Eddie Guerrero's passing. In December of 2005 Batista teamed up with Rey Mysterio and took the Tag-Team titles away from M&M. In January of 2006 Batista gave up his belt explaining to Teddy Long that it was because of a injury. The belt eventually made it's way to King Booker but upon Batista's return he made it clear that he wanted his belt back. In November of 2006 he certainly did get it back by defeating King Booker. Batista ended up losing his title after a long feud with the Undertaker. It was probably one of the best wrestling matches one would ever see but Undertaker came out on top defeating Batista in April, 2007 at Wrestlemania 23 and taking his title. Edge ended up later becoming the champion and then the great Khali. Batista ended up getting the WWE World Heavyweight Championship belt back at 'Unforgiven' 2007 as he picked up the victory over Khali in what was a triple threat match between Batista, Khali and Rey Mysterio. Batista ended up losing the title to Edge after Edge came back after many months away from wrestling in a triple threat match between Batista, Undertaker and Edge. Edge used many tricks to pick up the victory ringing the bell to fool the Undertaker and introducing his Edgeheads. Batista went on to compete in the 2008 Royal Rumble but was eliminated. At Wrestlemania XXIV Batista would represent SMACKDOWN in the SMACKDOWN VS RAW match up. Batista was able to get the win for SMACKDOWN over RAWS Umaga. A couple weeks after Wrestlemania Batista approached Shawn Michaels and started a feud with him over the Michaels-Ric Flair match at Wrestlemania that ended the golden boys career. A match was set up for Backlash but Batista lost the match to Shawn Michaels.

SOME BATISTA FACTS:

Birth Name: David Michael Batista
Birth Date: January 18, 1966
Nickname: The Animal
Height 6'5"
Finishing Moves: Batista Bomb - Spinebuster
He is half Greek and half Filipino
He is a skilled break dancer
He has three daughters
He grew up in Washington DC and worked mainly as a bouncer at clubs.
He went to the WCW Power Plant for tryouts to be a wrestler and was told that he would never make it in the wrestling business.