Ranking all of Batista's WrestleMania matches from worst to bestÂ
In a couple of weeks, on Sunday, April 7th, at WrestleMania 35, Batista will make his return to a WWE ring after nearly five years away from the company.
Fourteen years after main-eventing WrestleMania 21 against Triple H, the two former Evolution team-mates will meet once again at the showcase of the immortals in what many are expecting to be The Animal's final outing for the company.
Despite going on to become a major star in Hollywood, Batista was one of the hottest stars in the WWE during the mid to late 2000s, and the future Drax the Destroyer wrestled in a total of six WrestleMania matches throughout his illustrious career, four of which saw him competing for championship gold.
With Batista set to lace up his boots once again and make one last appearance on the grandest stage of them all, let's take a look back at all of his previous WrestleMania encounters and rank them from worst to best.
#6 Batista Vs Umaga - WrestleMania XXIV
There's every chance that like me, you struggle to remember this match even taking place.
The first time encounter between these two men took place at WrestleMania XXIV and was booked as a brand supremacy match, with Batista representing SmackDown and Umaga representing Raw.
Despite the company's efforts to build this as an important encounter, fans were clearly not interested in the bout, and the lack of any real stakes made the whole thing feel incredibly inconsequential.
After seven fairly long and uneventful minutes and some uninspiring back and forth action, Batista eventually won the match with the Batista Bomb, but this is the only one of his WrestleMania matches that can really be described as bad.