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In an update to my story about Batista being upset at WWE management for taking away the role he was promised in the WWE film Killing Karma, it has now been reported by Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com and corroborated by Dave Meltzer on his April 24th Observer Radio show that Batista will be finishing up with the company this week. It will be interesting to see how WWE handles his departure and whether he'll be buried on the way out of the company. Tonight he faces John Cena for the WWE Championship in a Last Man Standing match at WWE's Extreme Rules PPV event, so expect Cena to win decisively as long as the creative team don't lose their minds over news of Batista's leaving the company having leaked out on the Internet.