Dave Bautista: Stephan Bonnar ‘beat the living hell out of me’ after Anderson Silva booking

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Former WWE star Dave “Batista” Bautista didn’t get into MMA to prove anything to fans.

He simply wanted to prove something to himself – that despite being 43 years old, he could still do it.

But to do that, he needed to prove som…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Former WWE star Dave “Batista” Bautista didn’t get into MMA to prove anything to fans.

He simply wanted to prove something to himself – that despite being 43 years old, he could still do it.

But to do that, he needed to prove something to his training partners. That got all the harder when one of them, Stephan Bonnar, got booked to meet perhaps the greatest MMA fighter in history.