Dave Bautista

Dave Bautista
Bautista in November 2019
Born	David Michael Bautista Jr. (1969-01-18) January 18, 1969 (age 55) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupations	Actor professional wrestler mixed martial artist
Years active	1999–2019 (wrestling) 2006–present (acting) 2012 (MMA)
Spouses	Glenda Bautista ​ ​ (m. 1990; div. 1998)​ Angie Bautista ​ ​ (m. 1998; div. 2006)​ Sarah Jade ​ ​ (m. 2015; sep. 2019)​
Children	3
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Batista Dave Batista Deacon Batista Khan Leviathan
Billed height	6 ft 6 in (198 cm)
Billed weight	290 lb (132 kg)
Billed from	Washington, D.C.
Trained by	Afa Anoaʻi Marrese Crump
Debut	October 30, 1999
Retired	April 8, 2019
Martial arts career
Height	6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
Weight	265 lb (120 kg; 18 st 13 lb)
Division	Heavyweight (265 lb) (MMA)
Team	Gracie Fighter Tampa Cesar Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Rank	Brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Cesar Gracie
Years active	2012 (MMA)
Mixed martial arts record
Total	1
Wins	1
By knockout	1
Losses	0
Other information
Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog
Signature

David Michael Bautista Jr. (born January 18, 1969) is an American actor and retired professional wrestler. He rose to fame for his several 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. He retired from wrestling after WrestleMania 35 in 2019.

As an actor, Bautista has starred in the films The Man with the Iron Fists (2012), Riddick (2013), as Drax the Destroyer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the James Bond film Spectre (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), My Spy (2020), Army of the Dead (2021), as Glossu Rabban Harkonnen in Dune (2021) and its sequel (2024), Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), and Knock at the Cabin (2023).