{"id":39312,"date":"2019-02-25T23:12:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T04:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=39312"},"modified":"2019-02-25T23:26:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T04:26:55","slug":"batista-takes-out-ric-flair-hunter-do-i-have-your-attention-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/02\/25\/batista-takes-out-ric-flair-hunter-do-i-have-your-attention-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Batista Takes Out Ric Flair: &#8220;Hunter, Do I Have Your Attention Now?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-rumored\u00a0and heavily anticipated final showdown between former <strong>Evolution<\/strong> running mates <strong>Batista<\/strong> and <strong>Triple H<\/strong> seems to be back on the table, as &#8220;The Animal&#8221; crashed <strong>Ric Flair<\/strong>&#8216;s 70th Birthday Celebration on <em><strong>Monday Night Raw<\/strong><\/em> in the closing moments of the episode. With veterans in the ring awaiting &#8220;The Nature Boy&#8221; to come down and join the party, cameras backstage caught Batista dragging an unconscious Ric Flair from his dressing room backstage, who then stared into the camera and muttered the words, &#8220;Hunter, do I have your attention now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WHAT THE?? Batista has appeared and attacked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RicFlairNatrBoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RicFlairNatrBoy<\/a>\u00a0in a demand for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TripleH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TripleH<\/a>&#39;s attention on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Raw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Raw<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveBautista?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DaveBautista<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NKzISy4fJ3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/NKzISy4fJ3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1100245667430027265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back in October, Batista made a return to the WWE Universe for the 1000th episode of <em><strong>SmackDown LIVE,<\/strong><\/em> reuniting with the other members of Evolution &#8211; Triple H, Ric Flair and Randy Orton &#8211; and teased one more chance for Triple H to do something he had yet to do in his career &#8211; beat Batista in singles competition.\u00a0Batista was 3-0 against Triple H on PPVs (<em><strong>WrestleMania 21, Backlash \u201905<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>and in a Hell in a Cell at\u00a0<em><strong>Vengeance \u201905<\/strong><\/em>), as well as 1-0 on <em>Monday Night Raw<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Batista takes a dig at Triple H during Evolution&#039;s reunion: SmackDown 1000, Oct. 16, 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Py6KfCVxUQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But shortly after the segment, Triple H tore his pectoral muscle and was shelved and it was reported that he wouldn&#8217;t be back in time for <em><strong>WrestleMania 35<\/strong><\/em>, the speculated venue for the grudge match, to face the blossoming Hollywood actor. The chances grew even slimmer when <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/02\/06\/batista-out-of-wrestlemania-35-plans-due-to-dune-remake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Bautista was announced as joining the cast of the\u00a0<strong>Dune\u00a0<\/strong>remake<\/a>, which would be filming during and around WrestleMania season. But as they say in pro wrestling, &#8220;never say never&#8221;, and based on the actions in Raw&#8217;s closing moments &#8211; on a night where <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/02\/25\/roman-reigns-announces-his-return-to-wwe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Roman Reigns<\/strong> returned and declared his cancer was in remission<\/a> and he was returning, only to reunite with <strong>Seth Rollins<\/strong> to help save <strong>Dean Ambrose<\/strong> from a beatdown &#8211; it looks like that potential final showdown between &#8220;The Animal&#8221; vs. &#8220;The Game&#8221; was still very much on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-rumored\u00a0and heavily anticipated final showdown between former Evolution running mates Batista and Triple H seems to be back on the table, as &#8220;The Animal&#8221; crashed Ric Flair&#8216;s 70th Birthday Celebration on Monday Night Raw in the closing moments of the episode. With veterans in the ring awaiting &#8220;The Nature Boy&#8221; to come down and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":39315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,3],"tags":[1432,51,75,2102],"class_list":["post-39312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-raw","category-wwe-universe","tag-batista","tag-raw","tag-triple-h","tag-wrestlemania-35"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}