Dave Bautista Would Rather Go Broke Than Ever Wrestle Again
Dave Bautista Would Rather Go Broke Than Ever Wrestle Again
Kebin AntonyThu, July 23, 2026 at 4:27 PM UTC
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WWE legend Dave Bautista (Batista) says he’d go broke before he ever returns to wrestling.
Actor and former six-time WWE World Champion Dave Bautista retired from in-ring competition after his match against his mentor Triple H at WrestleMania 35 in 2019. During his recent appearance on the Live Fierce Podcast, he noted that people always ask him if he’d ever come out of retirement.
Bautista spoke about why he started wrestling and recounted his journey in WWE. He noted that he left the company on top, had a storybook ending to his wrestling career, and that he wouldn’t do anything to tarnish it. He even said that he’d go broke and be poor again before he ever returns to the ring.
“I have this conversation a lot because I’ve done a lot of interviews, but people always ask me, you know, why I got into wrestling, and I always tell them I hate answering this because it’s not a glamorous answer. I got into wrestling because I wanted to make money. Because I was f*****g desperate. I was poor. I had two kids and not a dime to my name,” Dave Bautista said.
“After a while, I became obsessed with it, and I would have wrestled for free because I just loved it so much. But making a good living at wrestling was a side effect, and even when I left the company, I left on good terms. I left at the height of my career, but it was for the right reasons. But it was hard as f**k to walk away because I walked away and I went broke,” Bautista continued.
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Dave Bautista says he will never wrestle again
“It was nice having that check come in every week, man. But I walked away because the company was heading in a direction that it just wasn’t right for me. I was lucky that it worked out. I walked away as champ. I walked away on top. It’s hard to walk away. Most people don’t walk away, and this is why it’s like a running joke when wrestlers retire because they never retire. They retire like five times,” Bautista went on.
“There’s people, like they always thought throughout these years that I would come back, I would come out of retirement. And I told them over and over, I won’t. I had a f*****g storybook ending, and I won’t s**t on it. I’ll go and do manual labor before I tarnish that.
“If I go broke again — I know what it’s like to be poor. I don’t like being poor. But if I know what it’s like and I will go f*****g broke and be poor before I ever go back to wrestling. I will never wrestle again,” Bautista concluded.
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