People around the world know Dave Batista as World Wrestling
Entertainment's "the Animal," the rope-shaking, spine-busting World
Heavyweight Champion, one of the most popular Superstars in recent
years.The crowd turned Batista from heel to babyface after they
were electrified by his awesome physique and physical wrestling
style.
Few fans, however, know that Batista didn't join the profession
until he was thirty years old -- an age at which many wrestlers are
thinking about hanging up their boots. Nor do most fans know the
tremendous toll the climb to the top has taken on Batista's
personal life. While successfully staying away from hard drugs and
-- usually -- liquor, he found sex too tempting to resist.
"Women were my drug of choice," the Animal confesses. That
addiction cost him his marriage, destroying a relationship that had
helped him climb from poverty to the pinnacle of sports
entertainment in less than two years.
Now, in "Batista Unleashed," the WWE Superstar comes clean about
the choices he made and the devastating effects they had on his
family. He talks about the injury that stripped him of his title --
an injury he blames on Mark Henry's carelessness. While being
sidelined cost Batista untold hundreds of thousands of dollars in
lost income, it also set the stage for a tremendous comeback that
cemented the Animal's reputation as a true champion.
Batista talks about growing up in the worst part of Washington,
D.C., where three murders occurred in his front yard before he was
nine. He speaks lovingly about his mother -- a lesbian -- and how
hard she worked to keep the family not just together but alive. He
talks candidly about his own criminal past: a conviction on a drug
charge and another, since overturned, on assault. He speaks of his
days as a bouncer and a lifeguard, and tells how bodybuilding may
have saved his life.
Once he made it to the WWE, Batista realized he wasn't really
ready for the big time. His career seemed headed for a fall until
Fit Finlay took him under his wing. But his real education came
when he joined Evolution and rode with Triple H and Ric Flair, two
of sports entertainment's all-time greats. Batista talks about what
they taught him, and details some of their wild times on the road.
But the champ also reveals a kinder, gentler side. While his
soft-spoken manner in the locker room has sometimes been
misinterpreted as arrogance, in truth Batista's always been
somewhat shy and quiet. Emotional by nature, he reveals for the
first time that the tears fans saw at "WrestleMania 21," when he
won the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time, were
very real. And he speaks movingly about his problems with his
ex-wives and teenage daughters, and how it felt to become a
grandfather.
While his straight-shooting mouth has occasionally gotten him into
trouble -- most notably in a backstage confrontation with
Undertaker after some remarks about "SmackDown " -- Batista is his
own harshest critic. He explains his early limitations as a
wrestler and the work he has done to overcome them. Interspersing
his memoir with accounts from life on the road, Batista lightens
the narrative with a surprising sense of humor. An Animal in the
ring, he reveals himself as an honest and even humble man in
everyday life.
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