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Post by tonyraymond69 on Mar 13, 2024 6:54:44 GMT -5
Batista had his humble beginnings with Evolution on the Raw brand from 2003-2005 before turning face followed by defeating Triple H for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship Belt. Not long after, Batista got moved to the SmackDown brand to compensate for John Cena moving to Raw as both guys were in contention to be the face of the company for years to come.
From 2005 to 2008, Batista had an uneventful run on SmackDown with injuries and a backstage brawl with Booker T. Then the 2008 WWE Draft happened, and Batista was moved back to the Raw brand even though Cena was still on Raw.
How Batista got drafted was John Cena (Raw) winning his match against Edge (SmackDown) and earning Raw the No. 7 draft pick, which was Batista. Some say that USA Network (the cable TV channel for Raw) wanted Batista on the Raw roster since he was a proven draw not named Cena.
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Post by fg on Mar 13, 2024 9:34:05 GMT -5
Who can forget shortly after the draft, they showed Batista warming up on camera only for a fan to jump in between them and imitate Batista and get chased away by security? Haha.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Mar 13, 2024 11:42:16 GMT -5
Isn’t this what led to CM Punk’s 1st MITB cash-in?
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Mar 14, 2024 10:36:16 GMT -5
An uneventful run...where he wrestled the Undertaker at WrestleMania as World Heavyweight Champion and was permanently in the main event.
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Post by BRV on Mar 14, 2024 10:41:35 GMT -5
An uneventful run...where he wrestled the Undertaker at WrestleMania as World Heavyweight Champion and was permanently in the main event. Yeah, I don’t know how anyone can call Batista’s SmackDown run “uneventful.” Was he injured a lot? Sure was. But when he wasn’t he was always in the title picture or main event and was either 1 or 1a to The Undertaker on SmackDown during that era. |
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Post by Cyno on Mar 14, 2024 13:56:39 GMT -5
Batista in 2005 was That Dude. The injury bug hitting him sucked, but he felt second only to Cena as top guy in the company.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Mar 14, 2024 14:11:38 GMT -5
"uneventful"  If you know, you know. |
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Post by Stu on Mar 14, 2024 14:18:16 GMT -5
"uneventful" If you know, you know. But only on Sunday |
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Post by DragonMasterP on Mar 14, 2024 14:26:25 GMT -5
Batista in 2005 was That Dude. The injury bug hitting him sucked, but he felt second only to Cena as top guy in the company. I, for one, can never get enough of watching Batista take on HHH and JBL and decisively kick their asses. |
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Post by Hypnosis on Mar 14, 2024 14:38:06 GMT -5
Batista in 2005 was That Dude. The injury bug hitting him sucked, but he felt second only to Cena as top guy in the company. I, for one, can never get enough of watching Batista take on HHH and JBL and decisively kick their asses. Batista admiring his destruction of JBL's limo was tremendous.  |
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Post by Jake, The Jake, Jake on Mar 14, 2024 15:01:13 GMT -5
Yeah I'd say the '08 raw run was the uneventful part. He feuded with Orton and I think won the title again at some point? Then it's a blank space in my head until the spost'a be ma frannnnd heel turn, so I'm assuming it was more injuries along the way.
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Post by tirtefaa on Mar 14, 2024 15:20:53 GMT -5
OP reads like it was written with AI.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Mar 15, 2024 3:12:57 GMT -5
OP reads like it was written with AI. Theres a lot of these lately. And the poster is always two words, maybe a name then a random number. |
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