However, Bautista's journey into pro wrestling wasn't clear-cut, especially after years of struggling to find his way early in life. Gyms," the former WWE Champion opened about his failed WCW tryout and its aftermath. "I went for a tryout in Atlanta, it was for the WCW at the time. They told me to get the f**k out and I'd never be a pro wrestler [and that] I didn't have what it took," he recalled. Bautista then claimed he waited about a week before finding someone else to train him to become a pro wrestler, winding up at a training camp in Pennsylvania.