“20 years ago Batista began training to turn skeptics into believers”- John Cena, Triple and more pour in wishes to commemorate Batista’s 20th WWE debut anniversary

“20 years ago Batista began training to turn skeptics into believers”- John Cena, Triple and more pour in wishes to commemorate Batista’s 20th WWE debut anniversary

Batista's WWE debut on the left and his last WWE match on the right.

Former WWE champion, Batista (or Dave Bautista) is currently enjoying his hollywood career as a successful actor, but today’s a very special landmark feat in the career of ‘The Animal’.

20 years ago today in WWE history, The Animal “Batista” made his debut on Smackdown alongside the reverend D-Von Dudley. He later went on to become a 6-time WWE champion having being held the World Heavyweight Title 4 times and the WWE Championship 2 times. He had a 282 day long run as the World Heavyweight champion in his first reign which was the longest for that title.

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Dave is also a 2-time Royal Rumble match winner where he held the honour to be a part of the main-event of Wrestlemania back in 2005 where he faced The Undertaker in a losing attempt and nearly 8 years ago at Wrestlemania 30, where he was involved in a triple-threat match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship alongside Randy Orton and Daniel Bryan, but he lost that too Apart from this Batista is also a 3-time Tag Team Champion. His seeds to become a superstar in WWE were planted long ago while he was in the stable known as The Evolution (headed by Ric Flair, Triple H and Randy Orton).

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All of the four men collectively were the definition of a dominating force who would go onto destroy his opponents. Ever since wrestling his retirement match against his former mentor, Triple H at Wrestlemania 35, he’s not been there on WWE television.

Today marks exactly the same date when Batista debuted in WWE. So to honour the Hall of Fame worthy career of The Animal, several WWE Superstars have penciled in some appreciative tweets remembering their time with him in the company.

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WWE Superstars celebrate the 20th anniversary of Batista’s WWE debut

On the special occasion of his 20th debut anniversary, several WWE Superstars and Batista’s former fellow-mates reached out to Twitter for showing their love for the former 6 time World Champion!

Recently calling upon his in-ring duties The Game Triple H shared a heartfelt tweet for Batista saying he never stopped growing and evolving.

The legendary 16-time World Champion, and his former tag-team partner John Cena also showered his praise over him saying 20 years ago Batista turning skeptics into believers.

Titus O’Neil also reacted to this special occasion revealing how special Batista is for his family being a brother to him and an uncle to his children plus a great human being.

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