4. “I Broke My Back During My Last Match In 2010 With John Cena” – Batista
During a recent appearance on MLW Radio, former WWE Champion Batista talked about leaving WWE in 2010. Batista noted that he broke his back during his “I Quit” match with John Cena at Over The Limit 2010 (which was the final match of his original WWE run):
“I gave them almost a year’s notice and I did whatever they asked me to do and I busted my a$$ and till the day I left, they didn’t think I was leaving and on the night that I left, I think a few people said ‘goodbye’ to me and said ‘thank you’, but it was like a very few. And then I walked out. Security, Muriel, I , Sassy, escorted me out the door by myself. No ‘see you later, Dave’, ‘thanks for everything’, ‘keep in touch’. It was sad, man. It really put things in perspective on where I stood with them. I left there with a broken back. Not a lot of people realize that or appreciate that, but in my last match with Cena, I broke my back.”
Batista also revealed that he left WWE in 2010 because WWE didn’t provide him with acting opportunities like they did with Cena:
“Basically, kind of mirror images of each other on our respective shows, but I’m getting afforded a lot less opportunities and that didn’t sit well with me and I wasn’t okay with that. I wasn’t content with that. And so, when they said no, I wasn’t going to be afforded those opportunities, I said, ‘well, I’m going to leave then’ and that was kind of it. It’s funny. I do a lot of things because I get pi$$ed off and I really hate when people tell me I can’t do stuff.
And when WWE had started on films and commercials, and I noticed that everything more and more was going to Cena, but at the same time, he’s main eventing one series of shows and I’m main eventing the others, but he’s getting all these opportunities that I’m not getting. It just seemed a little unfair to me that I’m still out there busting my a$$ to do these shows while he’s making movies and getting paid a butt load of money to make these movies. So I simply asked a question, ‘is there any opportunity for me to do films?’ and there wasn’t. They had no interest in me doing that, so I said, ‘well, if I’m not afforded the opportunity here, then I should be afforded the opportunity to go outside the company and audition.’
And the answer was, ‘you’re our property – get dressed for the house shows and get to work’. I just thought it was unfair, so I thought it’s just really unfair. It’s unfair career wise and it’s unfair to me financially.”
