Batista Talks Sting in WWE, Biggest Rib Pulled on Him, and More

In preparation of the release of “Guardians of the Galaxy” on Friday, August 1, WWE Superstar Batista, who plays Drax in the film, has been promoting the movie through many media outlets. “The Animal” recently spoke with The Huffington Post, discussing topics related to both the wrestling and film industries.

When asked, “what’s the best rib that’s been played on you,” Batista said the following:

“I’m not the biggest ribber, so this is not so much of a rib but as you know, I made my WWE debut alongside Devon. I was a rookie and – I learned this the hard way – sometimes you should just keep your mouth shut. I made a bet with him when we were somewhere in New Mexico, because Devon was notoriously late, I told him that if he beat me to the show that I’d run around the building naked. Even though I hadn’t really meant it, he picked up on it and ran with it. So he ended up winning the bet, of course, and I was going to keep to my word and run around the building naked. One of the WWE producers vetoed the idea but I was the rookie and obligated to suck it up. So I was at his mercy and the trade for the naked run was that I had to do 25 individual push-ups whenever and wherever he told me to. After each push up I had to scream out “I’m Devon’s b***h”. I did them – I think he let me out of about five of them because he eventually just felt so bad. But I did them in random places – it was on planes, it was in restaurants…..”

The winner of the 2014 Royal Rumble match was also asked if the WWE Universe would see Sting wrestling for WWE in the future:

“I don’t know – you know, they’ve been talking about that for years. I’ve never even met him. But I hope so. I think he’s got a place there. But they need to do it soon because the audience is changing so much that if they wait any longer, the audience is going to be a bunch of kids and when he comes out they’re going to chant CM Punk!”

Batista also discussed getting booed upon his WWE return, being asked if it was simply the crowd being frustrated Daniel Bryan fans:

“You could have fooled the hell out of me! They channelled their rage right in my direction. I can’t put my finger on it, it was crazy. I don’t get wrestling now. I’ve kind of completely taken my finger off the pulse. It’s a different audience which I don’t understand. It’s strange though, it’s really just the TV audience because when we get into the live events it’s a completely different audience and they come just to watch the show. It’s weird, the TV crowd seems like they come to be the show rather than to watch and interact with the show. It’s like they want to steal the show, so I’m just totally confused.”

One of The Undertaker’s victims at WrestleMania also gave his thoughts on Brock Lesnar conquering The Streak at WrestleMania XXX:

“It sucked! Honestly, I thought it sucked. I haven’t really talked much about it but I think it was a bad decision, a horrible decision. I don’t have any say in the matter but to me, watching as a fan, it made me sick. Brock Lesnar beating him didn’t seem to work and it really wasn’t good that Brock left the day after. I just don’t see how that made sense at all. I don’t think anyone wanted to see the streak broken and it just didn’t make sense to me.”

Be sure to read the entire interview, here.

Editor’s Note

I like how open and Batista is in these interviews. Very interesting words on how he hated to see The Streak end.