David Michael dave bautista jr. is an actor and former professional wrestler
from America beginning his career is one of the biggest stars of world wrestling
entertainment wwe he has also built an impressive resume as an actor over the
course of the last 10 years childhood dave bautista was born january 18 1969
in washington DC his father whose own parents were from the philippines still
works as a hairdresser in the DC area his parents divorced when Bautista was
still young and he was subsequently raised by his mother who is of Greek
descent at some point his mother came out as a lesbian and Bautista has been
supportive of her decision dubbing himself as a proud son of a
lesbian Leticia has a sister who was named after
their mother as well as a brother named Michael
Leticia has talked about the financial difficulties his family had to face when
he was a child furthermore the neighborhood he grew up
in was quite violent by the time he turned nine he had witnessed three
murders on their front lawn he himself had committed criminal activities as a
teenager at the age of 13 he was stealing cars Bautista had a serious
falling-out with his parents when he was 17 he then left home and started living
on his own he worked as a bouncer for several clubs before he was arrested for
a brawl that left two of the patrons injured he was eventually sentenced to
one year of probation personal life Dave Bautista has been
married three times he married his first wife a woman named Glenda on March 25th
1990 they have two daughters together Kalani and Athena through Kalani he is
the grandfather of two boys Jacob and Aden Batista and Glenda eventually
parted ways on April 1st 1998 Bautista second wife was Angie Lewis whom he
married in the same year he got divorced from Glenda on November 16 1998 they
were married close to eight years before getting divorced in 2006 since October
2015 he's been married to competitive pole dancer Sarah Jade
he had previously dated WWE divas Melina Perez Kelly Kelly
and Rosa Mendes Batista's autobiography Batista Unleashed was published on
October 16 2007 through Pocket Books in the book but teesta dealt with some of
the most controversial issues in his life including his relationship with
Chris Benoit professional wrestling career after being involved in
professional bodybuilding for a while Dave Bautista wanted to pursue a career
in professional wrestling but teesta first approached world
championship wrestling WCW and gave an audition at the WCW power plant but he
was told that he would never succeed in the professional wrestling business but
he stood then went to their biggest rival WWE after a successful tryout WWE
designated him to the wild Samoan training center wrestling school
Batista's rapid progression in the promotion convinced WWE to include him
in the main roster Batista made his television debut May 9th 2002 on a
Smackdown episode under the ring name deacon batista his in-ring debut came
about June 6th when he teamed up with d'von for a tag-team match against
Farooq and Randy Orton and went on to pan Orton Batista's journey of becoming
the World Heavyweight Champion has finished at WrestleMania 21 when he has
defeated Triple H Leticia was the World Heavyweight Champion from April 3rd 2005
to January 13th 2006 breaking the previous record of 280 days set by
Triple H by two days he was part of various feuds in the next two years he
regained the Heavyweight Championship at the 2006 Survivor Series but lost it to
the Undertaker at WrestleMania 23 in 2005 he was ranked at number 1 in the
Pro Wrestling Illustrated 500s list of 500 best singles wrestlers he was also
named the wrestler of the year Latisse toe would win the heavyweight
championship two more times at the 2007 Unforgiven and at the 2008 Cyber Sunday
he won the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship with Rey Mysterio on the December 13th
2005 episode of smackdown at the 2009 Extreme Rules Batista became the WWE
Champion for the first time after he defeated Orton however he had to vacate
two days later due to a genuine injury to his left bicep he would eventually
win back the bell at the 2010 Elimination Chamber but would lose it to
John Cena in the subsequent months he continued to be a part of the main
storylines however as he later stated he was dissatisfied with the direction the
company was taking and eventually quit the promotion in May 2010 in December
2013 after gaining modest popularity as an actor
Batista returned to the WWE and won the 2014 Royal Rumble
despite being reintroduced as a face character Batista was booed by the
audience but he's too spent his most recent
tenure in WWE battling newer wrestlers both he and Orton lost to Bryan at
WrestleMania xxx afterwards they got together with Triple H to reform
evolution and the group went on to be defeated by the shield Batista once
again left WWE On February 25th 2019 Batista returned to raw and attacked Ric
Flair Batista challenged Triple H to a match at WrestleMania 35 at the event on
April 7th Latisse too lost to Triple H and ended his wrestling career again MMA
career Batista had one professional mixed martial arts outing against
veteran journeyman fighter Vince Lucero on October 6 2012 a match that he won in
the first round via technical knockout acting career they began making guest
appearances on television series starting in 2005 including episodes of
Smallville and Chuck he appeared in the direct-to-video 2012 The Scorpion King 3
battle for redemption and played Diaz in the 2013 movie Riddick he's also done
voice work for video games as his fighting character Batista for WWE and
OVW Dave's biggest film role to date may be his character Drax the destroyer in
the 2014 movie guardians of the galaxy
alongside Chris Pratt Zoe Saldana and his Riddick co-star Vin Diesel and
Benicio del Toro he went on to star in the Bond film Spectre 2015 Bushwick in
2017 and Blade Runner 2049 in 2017 before reprising his role as Drax in
guardians of the galaxy vol 2 in 2017 and Avengers infinity war 2018 he also
plays a role in the action thriller Hotel Artemis
2018 alongside Jodie Foster more recently he can be seen in Stuber 2019
master Z Ip Man legacy 2019 and my spy 2019 this was channel aesthetics legacy