His work with Afa helped Batista get a spot in OVW. This brought a paycheck of $650 per week and the role of Leviathan! Leviathan was a monster from the sea, an unkillable beast, who squashed everyone he went against. I personally think that he should have kept this character. Sure, it's pretty old school, but he and the Undertaker could have fought some great matches as supernatural, unkillable monsters.
Interestingly enough, Batista mentions that his OVW matches never lasted for more than 2 minutes, so he didn't really learn that much about in-ring technical maneuvers.
The wrestling companies do it to themselves; they love big men wrestling, and they train them properly in the minors, but once they get into the ring they give them great moves like spear, choke-slam, power-bomb, and, let's not forget, the big boot.
A lot of future superstars were in OVW the same time: Sheldon Benjamin, Randy Orton, and Brock Lesnar. Batista regrets Brock leaving the WWE before he hit it big; in his mind a Batista/Lesnar match would have been legendary. Well, it would have been better than Goldberg/Lesnar.
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