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David Michael Bautista Jr. (born January 18, 1969) is an American actor and retired professional wrestler. Regarded as one of his generation's most prolific professional wrestlers, he rose to fame for his multiple stints in WWE between 2002 and 2019. Bautista began his wrestling career in 1999 and signed with WWE (then WWF) in 2000. From 2002 to 2010, he gained fame under the ring name Batista, initially as a member of Evolution. He would go on to win the WWE Championship twice, the World Heavyweight Championship four times (with his first reign remaining the longest in history at 282 days), the World Tag Team Championship three times (twice with Ric Flair and once with John Cena), and the WWE Tag Team Championship once (with Rey Mysterio). He also won the 2005 and 2014 Royal Rumble matches and subsequently headlined WrestleMania 21 and WrestleMania XXX, with the former being one of the top five highest-grossing PPV events in wrestling history. Having largely stepped back from professional wrestling in 2020, he retired after WrestleMania 35 in 2019. As an actor, Bautista is known for portraying Drax in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2014–2023) and Rabban in Dune (2021) and its 2024 sequel. Bautista has additionally starred in Spectre (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Final Score, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (both 2018), Army of the Dead (2021), Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), Knock at the Cabin, and Parachute (both 2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dave Bautista, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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David Michael Bautista Jr. (born January 18, 1969) is an American actor and retired professional wrestler. Regarded as one of his generation's most prolific professional wrestlers, he rose to fame for his multiple stints in WWE between 2002 and 2019. Bautista began his wrestling career in 1999 and signed with WWE (then WWF) in 2000. From 2002 to 2010, he gained fame under the ring name Batista, initially as a member of Evolution. He would go on to win the WWE Championship twice, the World Heavyweight Championship four times (with his first reign remaining the longest in history at 282 days), the World Tag Team Championship three times (twice with Ric Flair and once with John Cena), and the WWE Tag Team Championship once (with Rey Mysterio). He also won the 2005 and 2014 Royal Rumble matches and subsequently headlined WrestleMania 21 and WrestleMania XXX, with the former being one of the top five highest-grossing PPV events in wrestling history. Having largely stepped back from professional wrestling in 2020, he retired after WrestleMania 35 in 2019. As an actor, Bautista is known for portraying Drax in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2014–2023) and Rabban in Dune (2021) and its 2024 sequel. Bautista has additionally starred in Spectre (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Final Score, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (both 2018), Army of the Dead (2021), Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), Knock at the Cabin, and Parachute (both 2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dave Bautista, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Oscars
WWE SmackDown
Chuck
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Smallville
WWE Wrestlemania Rewind
WWE 24
What We Do in the Shadows
WWE ECW
WWE This Is Awesome
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Room 104
WWE Rivalries
Marvel Studios Legends
WWE Raw Classics
Army of Thieves
Saturday Night's Main Event
WWE Superstars
Raw
The Naked Gun
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Infinity War
Undertaker: The Last Ride
Dune
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder
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Thor: Love and Thunder
Hotel Artemis
Spectre
Dune: Part Two
The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Parachute
WWE: The Best of SmackDown - 10th Anniversary, 1999-2009
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Riddick
The Man with the Iron Fists
The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender
Blade Runner 2049
Heist
Untitled Prison Film
The Warriors Gate
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The Last Showgirl
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Guardians of the Galaxy
In the Lost Lands
The Best of WWE
Escape Plan 2: Hades
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
Escape Plan: The Extractors
WWE WrestleMania XXX
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
Marauders
The Killer's Game
2048: Nowhere to Run
Afterburn
The Romantic
My Spy
Bushwick
Trap House
My Spy The Eternal City
Army of the Dead
Stuber
Final Score
Knock at the Cabin
Production Credits
My Spy The Eternal City
The Killer's Game
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
My Spy
Trap House
In the Lost Lands
Final Score
Afterburn
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