Batista Was Told He'd "Never Be A Pro Wrestler" After Failed WCW Tryout

Batista is a first ballot Hall Of Famer and legend of the professional wrestling business, winning several world titles during his time in WWE before going on to have a largely successful career in Hollywood, appearing in the Dune series, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Knives Out: Glass Onion, and more.

It wasn’t an easy road for Batista to climb the ladder and become a huge star both in wrestling and in Hollywood, and in the early days of his pursuit of becoming a professional wrestler, he was told that he would never make it. When speaking on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to promote his new movie, My Spy The Eternal City, he spoke on a failed tryout with WCW at The Plant.

“I wanted to just lift weights, and I thought I wanted to bodybuild. And 13 years later, I had nothing to show for it. I was just big and jacked, and I was broke, and I thought, ‘What am I going to do?’ And yeah, professional wrestling.....And I actually failed at that. No, no, my first tryout was miserable. They told me to leave, and I'd never be a pro wrestler."

He was asked about where his tryout was, to which he revealed it was WCW.

“That was in Atlanta. Atlanta, Georgia, yeah. It's a place called the Power Plant, which was WCW at the time. They literally told me to leave. They said, ‘You're not gonna make it.’”

Well, whoever told him that was certainly wrong.

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