The Animal: Batista's 1st World Championship Reign(2005)

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  @wrestlingspremier · 6 years ago · pinned

  RIP Hana Kimura. I didn't know much about her but it's just something that's unfortunate. Like those messages and tweets broke her. I can't believe people actually send these kinds of tweets to these people, I mean they're human too. With that said, I loved this title reign. For some reasons I prefer Batista's over Cena but I liked both of them. This title reign established Batista as The Man and he was the number 1/2 guy from there on until 2009. What did you think of Batista's title reign?

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  @mbeas9612 · 6 years ago

  Batista's rise to the top in 2005 was epic. From winning the Royal Rumble to giving Triple H the infamous thumbs down and beating him for the WHC at WM 21, Batista became a big time main event player.

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  @philly254 · 6 years ago

  "Triple H also took off a T-shirt that he wasn't wearing"  lol

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  @TheSBleeder · 6 years ago

  I had no idea that Shawn Michaels vs. Eddie Guerrero was ever a possibility.<br><br>That could have been a 6-star match.

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• BI

  @BigRion16 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Batista helped smackdown in 2005 all the way to 2007. Batista was always a smackdown guy in my opinion. But I do like spotlight Batista in 2010

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  @vongola11thboss67 · 6 years ago

  Batista was Smackdown during his 1st round. The title was him and he was the title.

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  @quavehiphop9152 · 6 years ago

  This time period was one of the greatest times to be a wrestling fan I loved it

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• GU

  @guess6635 · 6 years ago

  During the Ruthless Agression Era I was a Certified Member of the &quot;Chaingang&quot; I dig it but Batista Was my Man. Friday Nights, SVR 06-09 and just Smackdown was just fun and cool. He truly did personify &quot;Ruthless Agression.&quot;

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• MA

  @Mattraction513 · 6 years ago

  Melina was ahead of her time with the Me Too Allegations

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• KE

  @keoncarr129 · 6 years ago

  For 282 days from 2005 to 2006 Batista was The World Heavyweight Champion

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• DI

  @divendughati6114 · 5 years ago

  Batista in his iconic first title reign, absolutely destroyed almost every main eventer. He absolutely destroyed HHH and JBL who were last year champions. The main difference in 2005 Batista and Cena was that in Cena&apos;s matches, we thought how Cena is gonna survive the opponent, but in Batista&apos;s matches, we used to think, how the opponents gonna survive Batista.

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• JU

  @jumbomacaroni · 6 years ago

  I always liked how Howard Finkle always introduces him: Baaah tees ta

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