{"id":341918,"date":"2026-05-28T11:50:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=341918"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:50:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:20:51","slug":"boxing-influencer-fes-batista-admits-taking-his-name-image-from-wwe-alum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/boxing-influencer-fes-batista-admits-taking-his-name-image-from-wwe-alum\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Influencer Fes Batista Admits Taking His Name\/Image From WWE Alum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_91\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>MISFITS boxe Fes Batista has shared how his name, profession, and even his look was inspired by the previous WWE World Champion turned acting star.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fes Batista, who shouldn&#8217;t be a relation of the WWE alum, will compete on the Fame Fighting vs Misfits Boxing on June 6 against fellow influencer\/boxer Kevin Nije.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/39225383\/misfits-fes-batista-reveals-how-he-got-his-name\/\">The Sun<\/a>\u201c, Fes admitted that Batista shouldn&#8217;t be his real name, and took it from the wrestler, saying he was obsessive about Batista in his youth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ties to Batista began in Fes\u2019 youth after he used the Animal\u2019s signature powerbomb while fiddling with friends at college. He said,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0\u201cWe were kids, messing around with one another, and I did a move called the Powerbomb on one other student\u2026 A few of the little kids shouted, \u2018That\u2019s a Batista Bomb.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite taking his name from wrestling and admitting to copying WWE Batista\u2019s facial hair, a future in wrestling doesn\u2019t seem likely for Fes. He said,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cNo, I didn\u2019t do wrestling\u2026 but I\u2019m obviously an enormous wrestling fan.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WWE\u2019s Batista debuted on the major roster in 2002 and would grow to be World Heavyweight Champion within the major event of WrestleMania 21 three years later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though initially announced for the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2020, Batista bowed out resulting from COVID-19. No timeframe has been given for his induction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MISFITS boxe Fes Batista has shared how his name, profession, and even his look was inspired by the previous WWE World Champion turned acting star.\u00a0 Fes Batista, who shouldn&#8217;t be a relation of the WWE alum, will compete on the Fame Fighting vs Misfits Boxing on June 6 against fellow influencer\/boxer Kevin Nije. Talking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":341919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[1504,2695,31721,2471,52214,4001,52215,6221],"class_list":["post-341918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-admits","tag-alum","tag-batista","tag-boxing","tag-fes","tag-influencer","tag-nameimage","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341921,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341918\/revisions\/341921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}