Few fans, however, know that Batista didn''t join the profession until he was thirty years old—an age at which many wrestlers are thinking about hanging up their boots. Nor do most fans know the tremendous toll the climb to the top has taken on Batista''s personal life. While successfully staying away from hard drugs and—usually—liquor, he found sex too tempting to resist.

Now, in Batista Unleashed, the WWE Superstar comes clean about the choices he made and the devastating effects they had on his family. He talks about the injury that stripped him of his title—an injury he blames on Mark Henry''s carelessness. While being sidelined cost Batista untold hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost income, it also set the stage for a tremendous comeback that cemented the Animal''s reputation as a true champion.