9. Came Back And Was Promised Title Run Because He Has A Movie To Promote
WWE apparently had this weird fantasy that if Batista was champ at the time that Guardians of the Galaxy comes out, he would do his movie promo work and plug (or even carry) the title during interviews. We saw this a year earlier with The Rock ending CM Punks historic 434-day title reign at a time when he had numerous box office hits come out two of which (Snitch and G.I. Joe: Retaliation) debuted during his reign. Guardians is not scheduled to come out until later this summer, but the likely scenario was that he would win the title at Mania and then hold the belt at least into the summer while doing promotional work. Regardless of the promised title run, the timing of Batistas return just months before the release of a major movie he stars in smacks of a self-serving move, on the part of both Batista and WWE. You cant fault either one for that, but you also cant blame fans for resenting it.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
