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David Michael Bautista Jr. His early life was hard and he found himself stealing cars by the age of 13 and estranged from his parents by After an unsuccessful attempt at a bodybuilding career, Bautista turned to pro wrestling in While there, he competed against the likes of Shelton Benjamin, Bull Buchanan, and had a main-event feud with The Prototype — better known today as John Cena.

In his first match on the blue brand, Batista teamed with Dudley and pinned Randy Orton , who was tagging with Farooq.

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Batista suffered his first loss against Rikishi thanks to D-Von accidentally punching him. This led to the pair falling out and going their separate ways. Batista was moved to Raw that November and allied himself with Ric Flair. Unfortunately, Batista suffered torn triceps early that year and was unable to wrestle for almost eight months.

Later in , Batista began establishing himself as a singles wrestler and achieved a notable victory over Chris Jericho at Vengeance. However, he was outshone by Randy Orton who made his way to the main event scene and defeated Chris Benoit to win the World Heavyweight Championship.

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This led to Triple H ejecting Orton from Evolution and setting out to recapture the title for himself, which he did at the following month at Unforgiven with help from Batista and Ric Flair. Cracks began to appear between the remaining members of the group as The Game began to distrust Batista and, for his part, Batista grew to dislike the heel antics of his teammates.

Things came to a head when Batista won the Royal Rumble and chose to face Triple H, leaving Evolution in the process. At WrestleMania 21, Batista defeated his former leader to become the World Heavyweight Champion for the first time in his career. In January , things came to an abrupt end when he was forced to vacate the title after suffering torn triceps during a match with Mark Henry.

Batista returned to action in July and set his sights on regaining the World Heavyweight Title he never lost from Booker T — then known as King Booker.