WWE will hold the annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony during WrestleMania 34 weekend in New Orleans. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, one name being floated as a possible headliner is Dave Bautista.
Other big names in play as future HOF headliners are The Undertaker and The Rock.
Batista’s Hollywood career has really taken off in recent years and he’ll have a big role (as ‘Drax’ from Guardians of the Galaxy) in Avengers: Infinity War, which hits theaters in May 2018.
Batista has been outspoken about WWE when asked about the company in interviews. He’s stated numerous times that he’d like to wrestle for WWE again, but only live events because he wants nothing to do with WWE’s writers and storylines.
During a recent appearance on Chris Jericho’s Talk is Jericho podcast, Batista said he actually pitched an idea to WWE about returning, but only if he could work a program with Triple H.
“I’ve asked, yeah, I’ve asked,” he said. “Well, there’s… I’ve asked for what I want. I’ll tell you and I’ve talked to Hunter about it and I’ve talked to Vince about it. I said I would come back and run a whole program with Hunter. That’s the only thing I’m interested in doing. They’re just not interested in it, you know?”
When asked if he’d return and work with anybody else besides Triple H, Batista said, “At this point, no, because it would be my retirement thing. It would be what I would go out on. I would come back and I’d do a whole program and then I’d be done.”
He still loves pro wrestling, but told Jericho “it’s just too much bullsh*t” working for the company. “Yeah, I miss it a lot. … There’s nothing like it, you know that. There’s just an adrenaline rush that goes along with it. What I don’t miss is the company, to be honest with you. I don’t miss WWE. I miss wrestling, I just don’t miss dealing with the company and its bullsh*t. Yeah it’s the bullsh*t man, it’s just too much bullsh*t.”