Dave Bautista Credits WWE Hall Of Famer For Great Advice
Dave Bautista is thankful that he got some wonderful advice from one of the biggest stars in WWE history.
During Dave Bautista’s incredible run as Batista in WWE in the Ruthless Aggression era of the 2000s decade, one of his most memorable feuds was with The Undertaker in 2007.
That rivalry saw them face off in a great match at WrestleMania 23 in 2007. Throughout that year, they had several more big matches together while battling over the World Heavyweight Title on the Smackdown brand. It was a unique rivalry since they were the two most popular stars on the Smackdown brand, yet they kept wrestling each other and there was no heel turn by either man.
At WWE Survivor Series 2007, Dave Bautista beat The Undertaker in a memorable Hell in a Cell match that ended due to Edge interfering to cost Undertaker the match.
While speaking to the School of Hard Knocks, Bautista recalled Taker giving him some valuable financial advice.
“Financial advice, the best advice I ever got, which I always offer to, especially to professional athletes because professional athletes grow up not really having much. When you get all this money dumped on you, you want to buy everything you can afford.”
“The best advice I ever got was actually from The Undertaker. He always said, ‘Live beneath your means.’ I learned that the hard way. I came out of wrestling, I literally lost everything. My house got foreclosed on, but I had a second opportunity to be successful in the film industry.”
“Now that money in the bank means more to me than something I really don’t need. I don’t need a Bugatti. I’d love to have a Bugatti, but I’m not paying three to five million dollars for a car because I don’t need one.”
Dave Bautista Still Wants WWE Hall Of Fame Induction
After wrestling his final match in 2019, Dave Bautista was supposed to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2020. That’s when the COVID-19 pandemic happened, so it was canceled that year and the next year it was done with no fans, which Bautista didn’t want to do. Bautista also had a movie conflict when WWE wanted him to do it again. However, Dave Bautista recently made it clear he wants that WWE Hall of Fame induction.
“Eventually, I will. I want to. And there was a good opportunity for me to go in a couple of years ago, and I agreed to do it. Hunter (Triple H) asked me to do it. And I said, ‘Yeah, of course.’ And but it was here in LA, and I thought it was perfect. It was storybook, because I won my first title here in LA. We couldn’t figure it out because I was working on a film I was in South Africa, so logistically, we just couldn’t make it happen. But, yeah, I’m still open to it. One day I would like to.”
During his WWE career, Bautista was a six-time WWE World Champion and one of the biggest stars in the 2000s decade.