{"id":740,"date":"2009-06-16T23:12:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T03:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=740"},"modified":"2009-06-16T23:33:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T03:33:42","slug":"batistas-end-in-sight-former-wcw-stars-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/06\/16\/batistas-end-in-sight-former-wcw-stars-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Batista&#8217;s Future in WWE, Former WCW Stars Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Sources say Batista is coming to grips with the fact that his days are numbered as a full-time, active WWE wrestler.<\/p>\n<p>While he plans to make a full recovery from his recent biceps injury, the talk is that Batista knows he will not be able to continue for much longer. Though most wrestlers end up going far longer than Mother Nature would recommend, the feeling is that Batista has accepted that his body is aging&#8211;he might not opt to make more returns if he again succumbs to injury after returning from this ailment.<\/p>\n<p>WWE still places Batista&#8217;s expected return timeframe at 4-6 months, although there is some optimism that he will try to get back in the ring by the end of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; John Laurinaitis recently pitched bringing a number of former WCW names into the company.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: F4WOnline.com)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=batista&#038;iid=4693926\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/7\/5\/b\/9\/Jessica_Seinfeld_Alexandra_1f66.jpg?adImageId=1604906&#038;imageId=4693926\" width=\"320\" height=\"318\"  border=\"0\" alt=\"Jessica Seinfeld, Alexandra Wentworth and Dave Batista celebrate the Star Studded screening event called Head Case\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Batista&#039;s Future in WWE, Former WCW Stars Coming<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-- Sources say Batista is coming to grips with the fact that his days are numbered as a full-time, active WWE wrestler. 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