Wrestling fans probably shouldn’t expect Dave Bautista to come out of retirement.
The 57-year-old has been out of WWE since 2019 and has enjoyed a successful Hollywood career.
However, speculation over whether or not a wrestler is truly retired persists for every performer. Bautista would not put himself on that list after an interview with W.O.L.F. GYMS.
I walked away as champ. I walked away on top. It’s hard to walk away. Most people don’t walk away. It’s almost like a running joke when wrestlers retire because they never retire. They retire like five times. And 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–king 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 I know what it’s like and I will go f–king broke and be poor before I ever go back to wrestling. I will never wrestle again.”
Bautista noted earlier in the interview that he went into wrestling because of the money, which he didn’t start making until he became world champion in 2005.
His last match was against Triple H at WrestleMania 35 in a No Holds Barred match that also featured Ric Flair.
