10 Ways Batista Can Return As A Major WWE Babyface

6. Wrestling Triple H For Control Of WWE

Let's dig into the Attitude Era bag of tricks even deeper and suggest that Batista could benefit as a babyface from literally becoming The Authority. Again, Batista s a grandfather, and in many cases may want a reduced or not-so physical schedule on the road. Maybe if a Batista-mentored Roman Reigns wins at Wrestlemania, the next obvious storyline is to have Hunter flip out after both Randy Orton loses a match against Reigns-as-champ AND Seth Rollins fails at cashing in the Money in the Bank briefcase immediately afterwards on the same night. As Batista stands in the middle of the ring holding Reigns' arm aloft one week later, Hunter gets a bold idea. Instead of just backing down, he says that Batista must feel pretty proud of himself. Of course, Batista cockily says "yes, I do," to which Hunter says, "well, seeing as though I'm the boss, what about this. What about you and me, at (insert PPV name here), your contract in WWE on the line. You're not even wrestling, Dave. You're a manager. And if you're going to be a manager and not "The Animal," then why are you even here?" Of course, Batista agrees, but with one request. If Batista has to put his job on the line, then Hunter, "The Game, The King of Kings, the Cerebral Assassin," has to put his job as the COO on the line as well. The match goes down, and Hunter loses, making Batista the "COO of WWE." Of course, he's not at every Raw, but for the weeks he's not at Raw, he's either "at Hunter's office in Stamford," or "working remotely." It would be a fun change of pace, and by, say, Survivor Series 2015, a match with Batista, Cena, Bryan and Brie Bella versus Hunter, Ambrose, Rollins and Nikki Bella (with say, Kane as ref and Steph as the manager of the heels) with "authority over WWE" on the line would be terrific fun. Ambrose pins Cena then immediately cold cocks Rollins (whom he joined only to get at Cena) who gets pinned by Roman, who's left (alongside Batista) with Ambrose at the end would be terrific fun (with 100 different finishes, too).