samedi, avril 16, 2005

dave batista won

EVEN if they're not fans of professional wrestling, many people have heard of WrestleMania, the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) annual event that has gained visibility in mainstream media as the most glamorous wrestling spectacle that gathers the best superstars of this industry in an ambitious fight card. In this year's edition, WrestleMania 21, new fan favorite Batista made his dreams come true by defeating erstwhile mentor and 10-time world champion Triple H with a devastating Batista Bomb to become the world heavyweight champion.

While fans went wild over the victory of the highly popular Batista, an imposing physical specimen who was previously a professional bodybuilder and bouncer, some Filipinos might not be aware that the new champion is actually half-Filipino.

Batista is Filipino-Greek, and his real name is Dave Bautista. According to the FAQ at his official site www.davebatista.com, the WWE eventually dropped the "u."

WrestleMania 21 was held at the Los Angeles Staples Center, with the theme "WrestleMania Goes Hollywood." The theme is apt not only because celebrities have always been a part of WrestleMania (the first one featured such pop culture icons as Muhammad Ali, Liberace and Cyndi Lauper), but also since the WWE has created its own movie studio, after the mainstream success that wrestler The Rock now enjoys in Hollywood.

Batista was born on January 18, 1969. He was originally from Arlington, Virginia but is now based in Washington, D.C., according to his official site. He and wife Angie have three girls.
While his wrestling career started in 1999, Batista debuted in the WWE in May 2002 in the SmackDown weekly program as the bodyguard of wrestler D-Von Dudley, playing the character "Deacon Batista" to "Reverend D-Von." Pretty soon, however, the sidekick was drawing more attention from the fans.

Triple H and Ric Flair later took in Batista and another young wrestler, Randy Orton, to form a new power bloc known as Evolution in the other WWE brand, Raw. Evolution played the main villains on Raw, but first Randy Orton (who became world heavyweight champion before losing the belt to Triple H) and then Batista broke away from the group and became fan favorites.
Batista has enjoyed tremendous success in 2005, winning the pay-per-view event Royal Rumble on January 30 to earn the right to face the reigning world heavyweight champion in the main event of WrestleMania 21.

The WWE came up with a storyline in which Triple H tried to convince Batista not to challenge him for the crown. He and Flair encouraged Batista to sign up with the SmackDown brand instead of renewing his Raw contract. The WWE teased fans with the possible change in the WrestleMania 21 card by coming up with a feud between Batista and then WWE champion JBL or John Bradshaw Layfield. (Just to clarify, the SmackDown champion is known as the WWE champ, while the Raw champion is the world heavyweight champ. While WWE owns both brands, they are treated as separate rosters, which only face each other during interpromotional events such as WrestleMania.)

Under this scenario, Evolution would have controlled both crowns if Triple H had s
uccessfully defended his title against another challenger and if Batista had defeated JBL.
In the end, however, Batista (and WWE management) gave the fans the match they wanted, in the process allowing Batista to make history as the first wrestler of Filipino ethnicity to become the WWE world heavyweight champion.

Whether his popularity and talent will enable him to remain on top of the WWE remains to be seen, but whatever the future may hold, Batista has certainly stamped his class on the world of sports entertainment.

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