At Sunday night’s WWE Payback pay-per-view, Batista wore blue ring gear for Evolution’s main event elimination match against The Shield. The blue ring gear set of a flood of tweets referencing #Bluetista, with even WWE announcers acknowledging during the show that #Bluetista was trending worldwide.
Batista, who has been the subject of a great deal of ridicule from fans since returning to WWE earlier this year, was not too pleased that fans were so fixated on his ring gear. He tweeted on Monday:
https://twitter.com/DaveBautista/status/473523741172191232
The #Bluetista hashtag generated a ton of parody images, including this one from us:
Complete #WWEPayback Results: http://t.co/L9RJg81tJR#bluetista pic.twitter.com/bhtjOe2jc1
— SEScoops (@sescoops) June 2, 2014
https://twitter.com/AdoringDX/status/473518202547232768
Someone take GIMP away from me or I'll spend hours just making these… #Bluetista #WWEPayback pic.twitter.com/ZyuDkAFq3a
— Rave (@RaveHound) June 2, 2014
See. I told you this is what Batista looked like last night at #WWEPayback. #Bluetista pic.twitter.com/bxFFJljfKr
— Bryan (@TheLegacy181) June 2, 2014