Dave Bautista is making the media rounds to promote his new movie, “My Spy The Eternal City,” which was released on Amazon Prime this week.
While appearing on the Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, Bautista recalled having a tryout at the WCW Power Plant that went wrong before making it to WWE. Bautista went onto become a multiple time World Champion and will be a Hall of Famer one day.
Bautista: “I wanted to just lift weights, and I thought I wanted to bodybuild. And 13 years later, I had nothing to show for it. I was just big and jacked, and I was broke, and I thought, “What am I going to do?” And yeah, professional wrestling…..And I actually failed at that. No, no, my first tryout was miserable. They told me to leave, and I’d never be a pro wrestler.”
Fallon: “Where was that?”
Bautista: “That was in Atlanta. Atlanta, Georgia, yeah. It’s a place called the Power Plant, which was WCW at the time. They literally told me to leave. They said, “You’re not gonna make it.”
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article, please credit The Tonight Show with an h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
