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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.
Dave Bautista
William Johnston
for William Johnston in Rise to the Top: A Wrestling Story
Suggested by homerstarfan13
(Movie I created in Film Studies) The film is about Professional Wrestler S.A.S who is considered by many to be the greatest wrestler at the moment and is incredibly popular with the fans. However the chairman of FWE Mr Allen doesn’t see the appeal of him as he is much smaller and younger than the champion and face of the company Infamous E. The fans however don’t like Infamous E and find him boring compared to S.A.S. After being refused a shot at the championship for too long S.A.S snaps and airs he’s annoyance with the company in front of the crowd and fans watching at home. Mr Allen is about to fire him until he sees the ratings for the show and decides to finally put him in a championship match against Infamous E and the biggest wrestling event of the year Wrestlefest. Whilst getting ready for the match he meets with retired wrestler William Johnston who gives him some extra training so he knows he’s ready. As S.A.S and Infamous E go through the rivalry on TV there is also tension off TV with Infamous E saying that S.A.S doesn’t deserve to be in this position. In the match S.A.S outclasses Infamous E in the match showing how inexperienced Infamous E really is. However the match ends with Infamous E locking a submission in on S.A.S and the ref is about to ring the bell but William Johnston comes out to stop him. S.A.S is able to get the win and the film ends with him celebrating with William Johnston and the Championship.
