Former WWE Star Batista to Strikeforce Dead with UFC Buyout

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Batista told TMZ: “(The Strikeforce thing is) done. We were (negotiating) but UFC bought ’em out and never said anything to me about it. I’m disappointed. I was talking to a couple other federations but I really had my heart set on Strikeforce and I thought we had a deal. … (Talks) didn’t break down until they sold out. I just had no idea, nobody ever said anything, Scott Coker never said anything to me. They just… We had a deal on the table and we were just trying to fix a few things and the next thing I know we got bought out. It is what it is.”

Glazer is a former senior editor at Pulse Wrestling and editor and reviewer at The Comics Nexus.