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Name : Batista
Real Name : David Michael Bautista Jr.
From : Washington, D.C.
Born : January 18, 1969
Height : 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Weight : 278 lb (126 kg)
Signature Move : Batista Bomb
Career : World Heavyweight Championship (4 times), World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Ric Flair (2) andJohn Cena, WWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Rey Mysterio, WWE Championship (2 times), Royal Rumble winner (2005, 2014), WWE Superstar of the Year (2007)
Taming wild animals is best left to trained professionals. Taming “The Animal” is another matter entirely.
If Batista always appeared in control of his meteoric rise through the ranks of WWE, that’s because you’re not counting his tempestuous formative years. That what would ultimately bring the six-foot-six, 290-pound brute to the top was his ability to avoid the perils and violence all around him in his troubled youth.
He didn’t ask to be born into a rougher part of Washington, D.C. that delivered three early reality checks in the form of homicides committed on his parents’ front lawn. He cannot undo becoming estranged from his parents by age 17 or the assault charges he accrued and probation he served for unleashing his ferocious temper on two unruly patrons at a club where Batista worked as a bouncer.