Ranking Every WrestleMania Retirement From Worst To Best
6. Batista - WrestleMania 35
GIVE ME WHAT I WANT.
That alone should be enough to rank Batista’s WrestleMania retirement above all else, but that wouldn’t really be fair to the iconic matches to come. Still, Batista’s WrestleMania swansong was a fun brawl with a career rival that went a little long but was generally pretty enjoyable. You can’t ask for more than that, right?
Still, the question must be asked; was that what Batista wanted? What did he want? He didn’t want to lose, surely? The Animal surely wanted to defeat Triple H at the Showcase of the Immortals and put a nail in The Game’s coffin, proving his superiority once and for all. Nobody likes losing.
Except, just maybe, animals. Could it be that Batista needed defeat to be free? He needed the brutality of a no holds barred brawl with the mentor 18 months younger than him, he needed the blood, sweat and tears of loss. Victory breeds a desire for more, while defeat provides finality. In losing to Triple H at WrestleMania 35, Batista was free, free to make buckets of money in Hollywood.
In the end, Batista got what he wanted. There isn’t really much else to say. There wasn’t a huge amount to say in the first place.