Batista would rather go broke than ever wrestle again.
At WrestleMania 35, Dave Bautista, better known to wrestling fans as Batista, got in the ring for the first time in five years to face Triple H in a No Holds Barred match. The Animal lost the match and, the next day, announced his retirement from wrestling.
Since then, Batista has been true to his word, and recently addressed rumours of having one more match by firmly telling Jason Momoa, “No. Never.”
In a new interview with Cale Owen, the six-time World Champion explained why he has no interest in getting back in the ring, saying he had a “storybook ending.”
“It’s hard to walk away, most people don’t walk away. This is why it’s almost like a running joke when wrestlers retire because they never retire. They retire like five times. There’s people, they always thought throughout these years that I would come back, I would come out of retirement. I told them over and over, I had a f**king storybook ending and I won’t s**t on it.”
“I Will Never Wrestle Again” – Batista
Batista went on to claim he would rather go broke than tarnish the end of his wrestling career, as he is so proud of being able to go out exactly the way he wanted to.
“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 I know what it’s like. I will go f**king broke and be poor before I ever go back to wrestling. I will never wrestle again.”
“I went out the way I wanted with the guy I wanted to go out with, it’s never going to be that good again. I just won’t tarnish it, and I feel so good about it, I’m so proud of the way I went out, I won’t s**t on it.”
