{"id":10012,"date":"2011-05-01T21:36:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T01:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10012"},"modified":"2011-05-01T21:36:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T01:36:18","slug":"batista-returning-to-the-wwe-ufcstrikeforce-deal-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10012","title":{"rendered":"Batista Returning to the WWE: UFC\/Strikeforce Deal Collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10012\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10012\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10093\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"batista header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/batista-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Sean Farrell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is being rumored that the WWE has offered a contract to former talent Dave Bautista aka Batista. Bautista left the WWE to pursue a career in MMA but with the UFC&#8217;s purchase of Strikeforce that ship has sailed and Bautista was very disappointed stating &#8220;I had my heart set on Strikeforce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WWE however, with the loss of Adam Copeland (aka Edge) to injury is trying to bring &#8220;the Animal&#8221; back to the WWE. Only time will tell but WWE could use a ratings boost that only a star at &#8220;Batista&#8217;s&#8221; level could deliver. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\">Advertise Now On RSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=13198\">Purchase Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\">Order the Horror Thriller FAMILY SECRET Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sean Farrell It is being rumored that the WWE has offered a contract to former talent Dave Bautista aka Batista. Bautista left the WWE to pursue a career in MMA but with the UFC&#8217;s purchase of Strikeforce that ship has sailed and Bautista was very disappointed stating &#8220;I had my heart set on Strikeforce.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1183,1051,736,778],"class_list":["post-10012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-batista","tag-strikeforce","tag-ufc","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}