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Batista has now retired from the wrestling business following his loss to Triple H at WrestleMania 35, since The Animal is now concentrating on his thriving acting career.



It was rumored for a long time that the former World Champion would make his return to face The Game at WrestleMania after there were teases on SmackDown&#8217;s 1000th episode back in 2018. Triple H then suffered a pectoral injury at Crown Jewel as part of his main event match against The Undertaker and Kane, which left the match up in the air.


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Ric Flair&#8217;s 70th Birthday celebrations then took over Raw earlier this year which allowed Batista to make his return and set up a match with Triple H at WrestleMania. While their match did have a fantastic build and aside from a few awkward moments, was definitely one that stood out on the night, it could have been very different.


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Batista recently joined Chris Jericho on the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Talk Is Jericho Podcast (opens in a new tab)" href="http://www.westwoodonepodcasts.com/pods/talk-is-jericho/" target="_blank">Talk Is Jericho Podcast</a> where he revealed that he actually pushed for the match to be a Hell In A Cell match, but Vince McMahon wasn&#8217;t a fan of the idea.


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<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">“Originally, we wanted a have a Hell In A Cell but Vince, because of the pay-per-view, he didn’t want to have a Hell In A Cell, and we really wanted Hell In A Cell,” he said via <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Sportskeeda (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.sportskeeda.com/wwe/wwe-news-details-on-wrestlemania-35-hell-in-a-cell-match-that-never-happened" target="_blank">Sportskeeda</a>.</blockquote>


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Batista went on to explain that he thought the feud deserved a violent end, even though Triple H was able to pull out his nose ring with a pair of plyers, it could have been so much more.



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">“They’re just great matches… they’re violent. We needed bells and whistles. We’re two older guys, we hadn’t wrestled in a long time and we needed the drama. We’ve already got the history, so we just needed the violence.”</blockquote>

Batista Reveals That He Pushed For Hell In A Cell Match At WrestleMania 35

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