Dave Bautista

About

David Michael Bautista Jr. (born January 18, 1969) is an American actor and retired professional wrestler. Regarded as one of the most prolific professional wrestlers of the Ruthless Aggression Era, he rose to fame for his multiple stints in WWE between 2002 and 2019.
Bautista began his wrestling career in 1999 and signed with WWE in 2000 (then known as the World Wrestling Federation, or WWF), training at its former developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling. After joining the main roster in 2002, he gained fame under the ring name Batista, initially as a member of Evolution. Among other championships, he would go on to win the WWE Championship twice and the World Heavyweight Championship four times; his first reign with this version of the World Heavyweight Championship was the longest in the title’s history at 282 days. He also won the 2005 and 2014 Royal Rumble matches and subsequently headlined WrestleMania 21 in 2005 and WrestleMania XXX in 2014, with the former being one of the top five highest-grossing pay-per-view events in wrestling history. He performed full-time from 2002 to 2010 before taking a hiatus and returning part-time in 2014 before going on hiatus again later…