5 WWE Superstars that have gone seriously mainstream since The Rock did

#4 Former WWE Champion Batista

Batista as Drax

Dave Bautista will be the first former WWE Superstar to win an Academy Award for acting someday. It's stunning how good he's gotten over the years at his new chosen craft.

But, to his credit, Bautista has always said that he wanted to be an actor and not just a movie star - and he took steps to improve his work. He broke out huge in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, essentially becoming an A-list player overnight.

In between the first Guardians and its sequel, Bautista played a major role in the James Bond film Spectre, starred in a film with Robert De Niro called Heist, and a surprisingly well made action/war movie called Bushwick.

And since Guardians 2, Dave has since gone on to awesome performances in Blade Runner 2049, Hotel Artemis, and the comedy Stuber. Oh, yeah, there were a couple of big budget Avengers movies in there, as well.

Later this year, Bautista will have a role in the latest attempt to bring Frank Herbert's classic Sci-Fi novel Dune to the big screen - this time directed by Bautista's Blade Runner director Denis Villenueve.

From working with D-von Dudley as "Deacon Batista" to working with Triple H as part of Evolution to world titles to Hollywood fame, Bautista has more than made his mark on the world of entertainment.