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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
Brutas Birmingham
for Brutas Birmingham in Swordsmoke: The Hunt
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With their camp lost to Fletcher’s loyalists, Marc, Bo, Sasha, Bao, Bryce, and Brutas lay low at Sasha’s house. Sasha warns them about her former group—the Hunters—now led by Norman Ryder, a ruthless ex-Marine. With Fletcher dead, the Hunters want revenge, and Norman won’t stop until the Agency is wiped out. While Bao and Sasha dig into Norman’s operations, Marc and Bo begin receiving ominous notes—signed by Mercenary. The messages pile up until Kitty Hall, a cold operative for Mercenary, arrives at their doorstep. She doesn’t threaten them directly—instead, she tells them Mercenary made a deal. The Hunters get their revenge, and Mercenary stays out of it… for now. Bao infiltrates the Hunter compound and confronts Norman. A brutal fight breaks out, and during the chaos, a vat of chemicals—sent by Mercenary for genetic testing—spills. Bao is exposed but manages to escape. As Norman rallies his troops for war, Bao begins to feel strange changes. Wounded and disoriented, Bao stumbles through the desert. Just as he collapses, a stranger offers him water. “Name’s Jack,” the man says with a grin. “You’re gonna want to hear what I know.” The hunt has begun.
