Dave Batista rules out WWE return: “I will go f*cking broke and be poor before I ever go back to wrestling”
During an interview with Cale Owen, Dave Batista commented on his decision to walk away from professional wrestling…
“I left the company, and I left on good terms. I left at the height of my career, but it was for the right reasons.
It was hard as f*ck to walk away because I walked away and I went broke. It was nice having that check come in every week, man. It really was. But I walked away because the company was heading in a direction that just wasn’t right for me.
So, you know, it worked out. I was lucky that it worked out.”
Batista also ruled out a return to WWE…
“It’s hard to walk away. Most people don’t. That’s why it’s almost like a running joke when wrestlers retire, because they never retire. They retire like five times.
People always thought over the years that I would come back, that I’d come out of retirement. I told them over and over, ‘I won’t.’ I had a f*cking storybook ending, and I won’t sh*t on it.
I’ll go 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, and I will go fucking broke and be poor before I ever go back to wrestling. I will never wrestle again.”