{"id":2181,"date":"2015-11-06T14:59:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T20:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2015-11-06T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T21:15:17","slug":"batista-goes-deep-into-wwe-issues-headbutting-creative-b-s-but-would-he-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/11\/06\/batista-goes-deep-into-wwe-issues-headbutting-creative-b-s-but-would-he-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Batista not planning in-ring return, but what would draw him back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-308248426\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Former WWE star Dave Bautista says he &#8220;does not have any plans right now to return to the ring,&#8221; but the idea of just doing house shows intrigues him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\/inside\/batista-spectre-james-bond-hinx-daniel-craig-interview-28163849\/page-3\" target=\"_blank\">Bautista made the comment to WWE&#8217;s website<\/a>, taking a softer approach to making a similar comment to entertainment report Chris Van Vliet.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista, in promoting the new James Bond &#8220;Spectre&#8221; movie, told WWE&#8217;s website about wrestling again: &#8220;I miss it so much. What I really thought was so interesting is the way that Chris Jericho went back and did Live Events. Live Events are fun, man. It&#8217;s really just all about you and the audience. I always just loved that. I&#8217;m passionate about it. I&#8217;m proud to be a pro wrestler because I love it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bautista told Van Vliet earlier in the week: &#8220;If they would allow me to go back and just do house shows I\u2019d be all over it. Because then you just skip all of the red tape and you don\u2019t have to deal with the writers and all that bulls&#8212;. Just go back and do your\u00a0thing, and my thing is wrestling. Wresters. Audience. Ring. That\u2019s all I want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOVEMBER 2 REPORT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In one of his most revealing interviews since leaving WWE more than a year ago, Dave Bautista opened up about butting heads with WWE management, a &#8220;state of confusion&#8221; creatively, and WWE being &#8220;very controlling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite all that,\u00a0Batista says he would still return to WWE in-between movie gigs. But, just to do house shows, like Chris Jericho, to avoid &#8220;skipping all of the red tape&#8221; and &#8220;bulls&#8212;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day I love WWE and I\u2019ve proven that I wouldn\u2019t wrestle anywhere else. I feel like wrestling anywhere else is a\u00a0step down. I love the company and I will always be appreciative for what they\u2019ve done for me. I would love to go back, it&#8217;s just they\u2019re just really hard to deal with and right now my passion is acting &#8211; I love it &#8211; and I\u2019m pursuing it,&#8221; Bautista told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC-ULsqsUW_UB1F6i2rOo_uQ\" target=\"_blank\">entertainment reporter Chris Van Vliet<\/a> during an interview promoting his role in the new Bond movie &#8220;Spectre.&#8221;<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3555361449\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;But if the opportunity comes up and they were a little more flexible with me as far as creative, I\u2019d love to. But also, I would do it in a heartbeat &#8211;\u00a0without\u00a0big money, I don\u2019t want a limited schedule. If they would allow me to go back and just do house shows I\u2019d be all over it. Because then you just skip all of the red tape and you don\u2019t have to deal with the writers and all that bulls&#8212;. Just go back and do your\u00a0thing, and my thing is wrestling. Wresters. Audience. Ring. That\u2019s all I want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Bautista returned to WWE at the start of 2014, he says that he knew things were not going to work out because of broken\u00a0promises and WWE force-feeding him as a\u00a0babyface when he wanted to play heel. Bautista did not name names when it came to individuals who pushed for certain ideas, but he pointed the finger at the collective braintrust of WWE.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just constantly butting heads with them creatively, which is something we talked about well beforehand and I was promised things that weren\u2019t delivered to me. For one, I didn\u2019t want to go back as a babyface. I said it\u2019s not going to work, they don\u2019t want to see me as a babyface. Nobody wants to see Batista as a babyface. I\u2019m the worst babyface ever. But I\u2019m a good heel, I know how to be a heel, I\u2019m comfortable being a heel and the fans want me to be a heel. But they tried to shove me down everybody\u2019s throats, and they rebelled,&#8221; Bautista said, stopping short of referencing the simultaneous rise of Daniel Bryan, the leader of a fan uprising.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They (fans) are not idiots and they don\u2019t like it and they don\u2019t want it. So, it just makes them rebel more. Then it became a state of confusion where they didn\u2019t know what they wanted to do with me so they\u2019d just send me out every week regurgitating the same crap and it was just horrible. After I had finally been there for a few months where I found my niche, when people started reacting to me in a positive way, I had to go and fulfill my (movie) obligations with Marvel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bautista said he learned a lesson about standing his ground, which is something &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Dwayne Johnson shared with him from balancing WWE and movies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always found it amazing that he was actually able to go from film to wrestling and back to film to wrestling, and he described it as quicksand especially with the company, WWE because they are very controlling. They\u2019re not the easiest company to deal with,&#8221; Bautista said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And he said don\u2019t get caught in the quicksand, you\u2019re not trapped here, you have to be strong and have to stand your ground. If this is what you want to do, you have to make it known and you\u2019re not going to deviate from that plan. 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