The Wasted WWF Career of DDP (wrestling documentary)

In this wrestling documentary we look at DDP, who defied all the odds in WCW by becoming a pro wrestler later on in life than most, completely transforming his life and becoming WCW World Heavyweight Champion. When Diamond Dallas Page joined the WWF in 2001 it was hoped that DDP would continue on his run of success, but it wasn't to be. A terrible feud with The Undertaker would just be the start of his downfall.
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[@rebal180]

This is why it took Sting so long to sign with WWE. He was worried that he would be buried like all the rest and we found out that he was right to worry. The commentators even tried to make his debut come off as a 2nd invasion from WCW. Bruh. He was the only former WCW guy going against the Authority. They even did DX vs NWO. He lost every singles match before being forced into an early retirement. It's like let it go Vince. How is someone going to be that petty and vindictive so many years after winning?

[@DeathMetalDerf]

He should have been dubious over signing up with papa Vince and Company. Vince has completely misused and totally buried more potentially good talent than any other promotion has across time.

[@FoolishMrT]

$$$ is why sting took so long. His contract was huge with TW and when that expired he was snapped up and paid handsomely by TNA for years. Only after that shitshow went down the pan that he followed the WWE $$$. Was subsequently squashed by the mcmahons as a final fuckye to wcw, so in a way you’re probably half right with knowing he’d be buried. I just don’t think he cared. He was Mr WCW and WCW died. He may or may not have had a push prior to that bad injury but that’s neither here nor there. Money was always stings priority and that’s absolutely fair enough. It’s a short and damaging career.

[@MixManiac120]

Sting still had to job to HHH, and was denied The Undertaker match....and Seth injured him..still a poop tenure.

[@jrsmith1998]

maybe vince doesnt realize that he won. He might still be that dumb

[@HOLLYWOODHOLCOMBE86]

ECW Taz was another one wasted by WWF/WWE

[@Nicksuavemusic]

Crazy to think ddp and Jake met in a bar to years later ddp saved Jakes life by helping him get clean funny how life works out

[@Makoto03]

Its criminal how WWF mishandled DDP. :(

[@themorningstar2571]

They mishandled Billy Kidman, Scott Steiner, Goldberg, Sting practically all of WCW talent

[@joeymanny]

@@themorningstar2571 Goldberg is beyond repair, they put goldberg over for like a year but still he is not getting the fan like him, even the part timer Rock got more cheers than the new acquired goldberg, They cant even try to make goldberg heel because it fails in WCW, so the fans are already tired watching the same goldberg. Scott steiner on the otherhand have some health issues and been injured alot

[@BeyondDaX]

@@themorningstar2571 Except maybe Bookie T for the most part. He is still booked poorly regardless though, especially the supermarket match.

[@dirkwood4544]

Criminal? Vince should have gotten the Death Penalty for that

[@Tha2ruth]

@@BeyondDaXthey made Booker T a clown for most of his WWE career!!

[@cathallynch8269]

DDP has continued to be an inspiration instead of an embarrassment, which alone makes him truly special.

[@chamuuemura5314]

Vince tried to embarrass popular wrestlers of WCW like DDP and Booker T (couldn’t keep Booker T down as he was too over) as a 1 person pissing contest to “prove” to himself that WWF/E was better than WCW. All he accomplished was showing how small he really was. Everything DDP and Jake Roberts have done in and out of the ring since then just proves how much Vince Screwed Vince by trying to put others down.

[@dnickx]

The craziest part is that DDP agreed to lose money with the buyout just to be able to Wrestle and was screwed by the WWE

[@jagtaggart936]

The unkillable phenom vs the no-quit everyman. The UT vs DDP feud wrote itself. And yet...

[@chikish]

Funny to see some of the comments here refer to DDP as 'mediocre', yet he carried Goldberg to arguably his best match ever at Halloween Havoc 1998. DDP was one of the very few top guys actually having _good_ matches in WCW along with Randy Savage during its final years.

[@miguelbayonrivera2467]

I second this. He generally had some of the most entertaining matches on the card, so "mediocre" isn't the word I would use to describe him.

[@humbledragger6411]

If they think ddp was mediocre they didn’t see his 1997 run

[@joshuabailey2746]

DDP had the best mic skills in the '90s

[@machomusprime50]

Those are typically fans who talk just to talk and never actually watched a second of his WCW career.

[@PaulRobLevesque]

For me and im old for me DDP was always ture ppl champ way before Dwayne xx

[@SRPC21]

I think even Vince McManhon and the vast majority of the WWE universe retrospectively regret how they treated him. He did amazing with his DDP Yoga and got a really well deserved Hall Of Fame Induction.

[@Micah_Not_Micha]

Diamond Dallas Page. One of my childhood favorites! 🙌🏾💎💯

[@BrianLG100]

One of mine as well.

[@jacobglaser7773]

Lots of talented guys' careers were wasted. Chris Kanyon was gold and they used him as a jobber.

[@acerimmer8338]

Who betta than Kanyon? Nobody.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@acerimmer8338 "Who Betta Than Kanyon?" Everyone on the WWF/E roster, apparently.

[@packlesswolf1]

I feel the same about Kane. He had a few legendary years but they ruined him. First the make him talk normal. Then his mask comes off ( for many many years) then he became a comedy goofball then corporate Kane.... he was my favorite.

[@jacobglaser7773]

@@packlesswolf1 X-Pac and Kane were great.

[@packlesswolf1]

@@jacobglaser7773 hell yeah. The Golden years

[@nc32203]

You forgot to mention, he had to retire for a bad back neck injury. Then DDP Yoga was born.

[@Eastsid3]

I hated that angle with Taker x DDP. They didn't have the decency to make DDP look competitive during it. He just got buried over and over. The final FU was getting pinned by Sara who seemed to disappear after this whole thing. Absolute insult. DDP didn't even deserve this.

[@KrisBryant99]

Honestly the McMahons buried the WWE (as a whole) by 2000 so anything that participated during or after was screwed regardless. DPP was just an extension of that.

[@Bohdisattva3.7]

And Undertaker said that’s ridiculous in a podcast. Why would you bring him in to do that?? It’s to make money. Uhh no it’s cuz Vince was rich and vindictive and had a huge ego. And ofc Rock and Austin and H in his ear. Look at HHH promos on Booker. Surprised he survived that shit

[@Eastsid3]

@@Bohdisattva3.7 no argument here. Booker vs. HHH was even worse.

[@ianthomson5382]

Let’s be honest. We all knew Vince was going to bury the WCW wrestlers. Performers like Paige, Steiner and Bagwell should never have signed in the first place 😳😳

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Better to take the payout and not work. But they were trying to be hard working honorable people.

[@ektran4205]

scott was in wwe in the early 90s

[@jasonmccrank4981]

If Mark Calaway was the great lockerroom leader that he was purported to be, then he could have put a stop to that awful angle. Unfortunately, by that point he was just as anti-WCW as Vince McMahon was. Not to mention a notorious Vince ass kisser that would do anything he was told to do.

[@tyrone5969]

Doesn’t mean he led the locker room in a good direction. Look at the substance abuse, harassment, bigotry and violence that took place in the locker room during his time as the leader. Listen to him complain that performers get along, have hobbies instead of drug habits, practice physical fitness and promote mental health. Being a leader of an environment or institution doesn’t mean you’re a good person or creating a healthy environment. Just look at, well, damn near every institution and literally every single “good ol’ boys club” in existence. Yeah, he was the leader. He’s also a sexist, homophobic, “Thin Blue Line” backing, sexual assailant loving sycophant who signed a contract to carry out a sports washing campaign for a genocidal monarchy. Mark Calloway is simply a bad person, point blank period. Good people don’t work with the Saud Royal Family, aren’t best friends with Vince McMahon and don’t fight back against the promotion of mental health care awareness. Iconic and legendary performer. Objectively bad human.

[@cobraalaniz149]

Yeah it's sad

[@roadkillz78]

You have to remember that Mark was under a spell with his then-gf Sarah. So much so, that he essentially broke kayfabe by getting her name tattooed on his neck and did a whole story arc revealing a part of his personal life. Mark was probably very willing to do this shit-angle because she was getting her 15 minutes of fame and he wanted to make her happy. I was under the impression she was probably going to be recruited into the WWE (with Mark's help) but it apparently went nowhere because I don't ever recall seeing her on tv after DDP jobbed for her (which is why DDP's tenure in the WWE was a waste). I didn't know anything about Sarah, but I believed she was using & manipulating Mark as a ticket to fame and fortune when I watched the storyline unfold.

[@bannedfreespeech]

He also ruined one of hos bsk members from getting a job in wwe after the buyout Brian adams in kronik was money but the big nad undertaker was scared he'd lose his spot

[@ForeverExtreme]

Taker knew what it took to reach the top in that era and he did it. You don't go against Vince, cause it never works out well for you.

[@anthonyjordanmoviesandmore2470]

DDP and The Rock people's Champion versus people's champion that would have been a slam dunk

[@augustuswayne9676]

I always liked DDP . He is a great wrestler .

[@duaneoldfield]

He saved Jake the Snake and Scott Hall. Took them in and helped them physically and mentally. Much respect for helping men in need

[@jerrym1218]

DDP was done so dirty by the WWF and especially by Taker and Kane, he was genuinely loved by fans and it just did not fit seeing him stalk someone’s wife as a heel, especially since he already had a beautiful wife of his own at home in Kimberly.

[@MrJamesPottorff]

You should have a follow-up video of what DDP has accomplished since he left. What he has done since has been awesome helping former wrestlers

[@duaneoldfield]

What he did for Jake and Scott Hall was tremendous.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

​@@duaneoldfield and Scott Hall!

[@tanakasean262]

Ddp the goat he saved so many people after this

[@MelancoliaI]

This man is a national treasure.

[@chriszaun8984]

If by treasure you mean fools gold

[@CJCrump]

That part.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

​@@chriszaun8984 Haterz gonna hate

[@endsofsanity]

They really did do Ddp dirty with his wwe run.

[@Venra]

Loved DDP as a kid. He really was people champian

[@DreMurf313]

DDP was one of the best to ever do it. & He gave birth to one of the most lethal finishers of all time, the Diamond Cutter. Who would layer be used by the legend killer Randy Orton, the RKO

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Actually,. John Laurenautis (Johnny Ace of the Dynamic Dudes, younger brother to Road Warrior Animal, and stepfather of The Bella Twins) invented the cutter as we know it. Every version of the 3/4 facelock into either a neckbreaker (cutter) or a jawbreaker (whippersnapper/stunner) can traced back to Johnny's Ace Crusher.

[@jesterr7133]

Page, Kanyon, Buff, and Scott Steiner were perfect fits for WWE from a character standpoint, but for various reasons, they just never really got an opportunity to be what they could have been in WWE. I remember wanting them to go to WWE once WCW got bad, and I was so excited when they got signed. Kanyon got a little run, but all of those guys deserved better. They could have been top guys.

[@marcusbrothers5221]

Having the most beautiful valet I've ever seen helped

[@bdr113080]

Honestly, the way they treated DDP, Booker T, The nWo, and all the other WCW wrestlers was one of the main reasons I stopped, watching WWE full-time week to week. I started watching pro wrestling in the 80s and was more of a WCW/NWA fan then I was of WWF but I was watching WWF every week by the time 1991 came around and I thought they did a really good job in the 90s but to see them purposely sign all these guys just to job them out and ruin their careers I thought was extremely petty. It’s sucked for DDP so bad because a lot of people didn’t realize he was in his 40s when that deal came around so it’s not like he could go to another wrestling company for 10 years and come back. It was pretty much the end of his career and just because he worked for WCW they made it a point to really disrespect him. After they ran everybody off, they gave Booker a fair chance it seemed until he face Triple H at wrestlemania, and by that time not only was, I disgusted with how the wrestlers from other promotions were being treated like second class citizens but let’s be honest, after WCW went out of business WWF has never tried to put out a top-notch product cents. It’s been 20 years of mediocre BS. Yes, wrestlemania weekends a big extravagant event but I remember a time when every Monday night felt like that. And after wrestlemania comes and goes, you can watch everyone that has a KZbin channel or listen to everyone that has a podcast and it’s constantly bitching about how shitty WWE’s is doing. There are no more superstars, I think Roman reigns has all the potential in the world to be as big of a star is Steve Austin or Ric Flair or Hulk Hogan or The Rock or Undertaker, Sting, HBK, etc. but even though they’re trying to keep the belt on him for 1000 days does it feel like he’s even half the star that those guys were? No. And after this past wrestlemania the way they did. Cody just shows me that they still don’t know what they’re doing because they have no real competition. I love the video, but my only piece of criticism would be is that this narrative that WCW couldn’t create stars I think has been something that’s blown out of proportion by the WWE since hulk hogan signed to WCW in 1994. Back in the 80s and 90s wrestlers were jumping back-and-forth to both companies. I look at guys like Ron Simmons and Rick Rude and Ricky Steamboat and they all were treated better and were more successful in WCW than they were in WWF. WCW had stars in people like Dusty Rhodes, Sting, Ron Simmons, The Road Warriors, Ric Flair , Ricky Steamboat, Vader, Goldberg, R&R Express, Midnight Express, Buff Bagwell, Jericho, Lex Luger, Sid vicious …. I can go on and on and on. Everyone I just named was either a former main event, wrestler, or a world tag team champion or someone that started at the bottom and in two or three years were on the break of becoming a huge star like Jericho who WCW wanted to keep but he just wanted to go to WWF. Even Roddy Piper was holding championships in the NWA before he ever stepped in a WWF ring. What is WCW not supposed to sign the biggest wrestling star ever in hulk hogan when he was a free agent? Didn’t WWF do the same thing just three years earlier with Ric Flair? I’ve always just hated this narrative that WCW couldn’t make stars. The truth is there were mid Carter’s and guys pulling the curtain in both companies that got a bigger shot once the went to the other side. At least WCW never hire WWF wrestlers and then once they got them they’re just job them out like WWF did to every single WCW wrestler they signed. I really don’t like WWE lol.

[@ektran4205]

nwo members were in their late 40s

[@Basillikos]

Lost respect for Undertaker when I learned he was largely responsible for DDP's burial.

[@joeking2961]

i was actually just thinking (perhaps im wrong i dunno as was long ass time ago) BUT wasnt there some sort of story line ddp and taker ?something about his wife sarah i think or something like that

[@jesterr7133]

DDP was one of those guys that reached a point no one ever expected him to reach. He got there through hard work and a good bit of luck and timing. He was also older, was a pure WCW product, and didn't fit the mold of the type of guys Vince like to push at the time. I think Vince just didn't know what to do with him, and didn't feel like devoting a lot of time to a guy in his 40s that had never been in WWE before, and was totally new to his audience.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Vince should known most of the fans would know DDP. But maybe Vince was so full of himself and wasn't paying attention to details. Had Vince looked at who got pop in WCW, he would have seen DDP was massive. Had he looked at 1998 PPVs, he would have seen DDP in many main events. But he was probably looking at Monday Nitro seeing Goldberg.

[@ironman2326]

Let's not forget Chris Jericho had the biggest ovation of all wcw wrestlers at his debut. It was nuts!! Check it out if you haven't seen it.

[@aarnethn]

WCW legend.🔥🔥💪🏻

[@kosmosfan01]

I love how much DDP has done with his life outside of the ring with all the stories I heard of him helping others get clean and healthy. The Positive Page gimmick always gave me a good laugh mostly because of that constant huge smile he had but I never knew how much that was just who he was as a person. I watched another video on him from Wrestling With Wregret and it's tragic that he got done dirty because DDP had a persona that just wouldn't quit.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

The Positively Page gimmick was DDP's idea. He wanted his promos to have the old-timely "ding" sound effect from old toothpaste commercials (later adopted by Wrestling KZbinr Adam "Plumpy" Blampied when he did his "Should've/Would've Booked" segments for WhatCulture) whenever he smiled after saying, "That's not a bad thing, it's a good thing", but WWE didn't do it.

[@kosmosfan01]

​@@TherealRNOwwfpooh No wonder it fit him so well if it was his idea lol

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@kosmosfan01 Plus, it was -- like many preceding gimmicks of the waning Attitude Era -- an extension of the man behind the Diamond Cutter & Diamond Clash who ensured that most opponents (sans the Brothers of Destruction) would "Feel the BANG"!

[@kosmosfan01]

@@TherealRNOwwfpooh That energy he brought with him was infectious.

[@dhappz9337]

This is so sad. If the WWE had the original NWO idea, they would have found a way to screw that up 😂

[@joeymanny]

The WWE idea is to burry all wcw guys, look what happen to all of them for a year gig all are jobbers, even booker is been mid-tier and losing main matches for like 4-5 years before WWE give him chance where nobody from wcw left

[@danielfranz6560]

@@joeymanny hell even when Sting went to WWE and wrestled triple h in 2015 or 2016 was it? And tbh, Sting should of won that match, but no. I've heard there was an interview with triple h saying he regretted not having Sting win that match, but I can't find it.

[@ladarionaustin2179]

Talk about not Giving Up on a Dream🎯🎯🎯 #SalutetoDDP

[@jeffreytidwell9937]

Damn right 👍 he should have had it like Jericho did when he came to wwf

[@Strangernightg]

When you're a millionaire like Vince McMahon or anyone who's a millionaire , they expect people to kiss their ass because they can say who stays and who goes . It's really a damn shame that these wrestler's put their bodies through hell and back but yet they get treated like a low life 💯 DDP in my opinion was a great entertainer and he gave it his all to show that he could keep up with the rest of those big name wrestler's . Look at Hulk Hogan , he gave his life to the wrestling industry and now he's paralyzed from his waist down . Many of our wrestling hero's have lost their lives due to heart attacks or some other way and do they ever get any kind of recognition when they're 6 feet under ground ? Hell to the no and we can say thank you , Vince McMahon . What a shame how people treat people . Rich people especially like to treat those with nothing to afford . Where's the peace , love and respect in this world !!

[@tyrone5969]

Fuck Hulk Hogan, he’s a racist scumbag who’s friends with even bigger scumbags and who’s spent decades intentionally destroying or holding back the careers of others. Also, are we putting HULK FUCKING HOGAN on a list of under appreciated or under compensated pro-wrestlers? That’s, that’s rather astounding. Like putting Paul McCartney on a list of under appreciated and under compensated song writers.

[@zeekjones2492]

That’s the sad part about money. The more money you make, the higher likelihood of ass kissers and fakers to be around you.

[@buddylee5712]

Hogan actually denied the reports about being paralyzed, but good points

[@LUCKO2022]

Hogan is a bad example. That guy used his stroke the most to hold down talent and keep himself the top of the cards. That doesn't work for me "brother" is Hogan's motto.

[@RealGateGuardian]

From what I've read, after the Invasion and during, DDP's work impressed Vince enough that he put the European title on him and wanted to put the IC title on him at some point.

[@061romell]

Lol 😂 a belt that was previously worn by pre jbl bradshaw and hurricane… they did ddp dirty

[@RealGateGuardian]

@@061romell Both are decent wrestlers. They're not great wrestlers. Well, maybe JBL as he is a Wrestling God, he's proclaimed it, so it MUST be true.

[@joeymanny]

@@RealGateGuardian JBL and hurricane are not decent wrstlers, and if you are booked to wrestler them back in those years it means you are now a mid-tier to a jobber, DDP is a top tier on those years and Vince wants to burry all the top tier WCW

[@RealGateGuardian]

@@joeymanny I'll debate JBL with you, but Hurricane objectively is. The merchandise he sold as The Hurricane alone proves you're wrong. And it's spelled BURY

[@ektran4205]

@@joeymanny ddp was injury prone

[@zealousjay1993]

I never understood this one ..... I never understood how they did this but .... DDP is still that guy

[@anthonyjordanmoviesandmore2470]

This point former WCW guys on their roster they should have known that WCW trained their wrestlers differently which means they just didn't care and they were just punishing them for being competition

[@miamimagicians]

Page shouldve at least had 1 WWF title run

[@nicolemerrill9167]

Very underrated he was one of my wcw favorite's, others were Booker t, Alex wright, the man with a 1000 holds ol dean

[@ektran4205]

alex writ=ght never signed with wwe

[@BURN.365]

DDP was dope! Ive been watching wrestling since the mid 80s and DDP's in ring performances where always great! I watched both programs and enjoyed WCW!

[@wingedhussar1453]

Ddp without the hair in 2001 just didn't work.ddp just didn't look like a star anymore

[@-th1rty3-]

Wow and why moment when he revealed himself to be the stalker, it was nice seeing him again, but why book him bad right away?

[@jbcountry84]

Ddp was aging. He was older when he got started.

[@namikstudios]

The biggest problem with the stalker angle was the reality that DDP was married to Kimberly at the time. That would be the same Kimberly who was the lead Nitro Girl and who featured heavily in multiple WCW storylines - ie she was very well known to wrestling fans, especially DDP's fans. I mean no disrespect to Taker's ex as she too is very attractive, but the idea of DDP stalking anyone while he was married to Kimberly was just insane... I mean did the WWE just expect everyone to forget that DDP was married to an insanely beautiful woman? There was zero mention of her during the entire angle.

[@UndergroundSkat2000]

It was really sad how the WWE buried WCW by the way they presented them on screen at WM 17. Their appearance in the crowd was very underwhelming

[@sriley064]

That's because they were meant to be in WM17 but O'hare ran his mouth on radio and they got relegated to crowd duty

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@sriley064 It wasn't O'Haire who did that. It was Shawn Stasiack (formerly Meat). Hence why he was lumbered with the comedic "Planet Stasiack" gimmick of clumsily bumping into everything & falling all over himself for laughs.

[@diontaedaughtry974]

Yeah this whole thing was ridiculous but Vince said he was gonna bury them the night wcw went out of business. Great video 👍👍

[@bpolovich9398]

You are on a ROLL and I Love it!

[@JarodJoseph]

How’d I know this dude would be British

[@CJCrump]

DDP is on my top 10 list of favorite professional wrestlers.

[@johnsononey]

When I lived in Baltimore , Md during the 90s ,ALL the brothers loved Diamond Dallas Page !

[@gojakla12]

After watching this video I respect DDP much more realizing what he was able to accomplish with his DDPY workout as the business man after what WWF did to him! It didn't break him and he turned negative into the positive. He is one amazing human being!!!

[@constablekennedy7705]

Viewers Need to make the Like Button ‘Fell the BANG’!!….

[@thomasbundy8424]

@Water Sniper feel?

[@smokeyfizzle]

*FEEL the bang

[@mtsguides]

The universe always opens 2 doors when it closes 1. Now DDP killing it in the Yoga game 😁😁👍👍

[@Bowen_Landry]

Great vid. I had to stop about 6 minutes in though. Not because the quality. But because till this day, remembering how he came into the wwf still pisses me off so much. He was one of the biggest baby faces. He gets brought in as a fucking creeper stalker. for the undertaker's wife.. and she wasn't even wrestling at the time. adding further insult...

[@Coldstone47034]

Sarah looked like a man. DDP was still with Kimberly at that time. Didn't make a bit of sense

[@lukethomas6900]

The fact that it's really overlooked how DDP was barely even a footnote of the entire Invasion angle by the time Survivor Series '01 came around, it really tells you how the higher ups of WWE truly viewed him by that point.

[@ektran4205]

mid 40s wrestlers will always be written terribly in wwe

[@jamesmorant1406]

Undertaker has to take some blame in this to he gave DDP nothing once Sara beat him on Raw that did it for him

[@Soon_Solstice]

The WWE did so many WCW wrestlers dirty. Watching these documentaries that absolutely are scattered with entertaining details just gives me that much more respect for what they went through.

[@HOLLYWOODHOLCOMBE86]

They did scott steiner dirty too.

[@ektran4205]

steiner came in way after the invasion angle

[@Antihero297]

They really did DDP dirty. They should've delayed his debut a little bit and then made him one of the leaders of the Invasion and a top heel. Him and Kanyon could've been in the Invasion main event instead of the Dudleys, who had already been in the WWF for about 18 months at that point, as well as Rhyno who was already in WWF for a bit less time. It didn't feel like much of an invasion

[@cttommy73]

When i was a kid, because I was a super big fan of Kane and Undertaker, without knowing who DDP was, seeing him beaten up and humiliated by them was cool. As an adult and having heard more of DDP and seen what he has done both in the ring and out of it, yeah, I see it as a massive atrocity. Worse then the Sting and Goldberg and so many more other burials.

[@stevegallo8483]

DDP deserved better. Many of the wrestlers who were brought over from WCW after Vince bought the remains of the company were treated like crap in WWF/E due to Vince's pettiness. If Vince didn't make someone a star, he didn't treat them as equal to his wrestlers. Guys like Booker T, Goldberg and Rey Mysterio only got their success in WWE after years of being there. Guys like DDP, Scott Steiner, Chris Kanyon and others got buried and then got out, and those burials were why it took Sting so long to finally sign with WWE. We all saw what they did with Sting.

[@lcrawfo2]

WWE flushed so much money down the toilet by burying him in the way they did. You spend all this money to bring him in then what, have him lose to the Undertaker's wife? Why? Plus, I think DDP said himself it made no sense for him to be stalking Sara when he's got Kimberly at home.

[@thisguybro]

Vader, Sting, Booker, DDP, Steiner (though you could say his injuries slowly dropped him down the card). Just massive wastes.

[@butchvito]

DDP should have been the leader of The Alliance. He was better than anyone on the mic, and it would be believable being DDP had been with WCW since the early 90's. Him and Booker T. should have been co-leaders. Keep Vince's kids out of the whole damn thing... Eventually a DDP vs Austin angle would have been gold.

[@actualartist3082]

Still wanna know how they got Dolph Lundgren to play Sara..

[@clemfandango5908]

Stoped watching wwe in 2003 ish, when TNA hit the scene it was pretty dope , then hogan shat all over that promotion and I bailed on them. So far AEW hasn’t disappointed.. DDP was a no gimmick needed type of wrestler.

[@letsgets77]

Man I was a hardcore wrestling fan at this time. I remember being really psyched about his run, and really worried about that last bump he took.

[@valrath84]

Ddp is out there saving lives a true icon

[@jesterr7133]

You kinda skipped over Page's first attempt at wrestling, as well as his first contact with Scott Hall. DDP worked with Hall in AWA. DDP was actually wrestling for WCW by late '91. The first time I saw him wrestle was on Starrcade '91. That was shortly after he transitioned from being a manager. He attempted to become a wrestler once before, but suffered an injury and gave up on it for a few years. He had been released once before Bischoff got there.

[@dawnofthewalkers4915]

DDP was and is my all time favorite wrestler. I grew up in the wcw/nwo/monday night wars era of wrestling and is still my favorite era of wrestling. Edit: I also met ddp at his book signing in the late 90s in Georgia where i live and he’s one of the nicest dudes I’ve ever met.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

That's really cool. Never met him, but he was my favorite. TBH, I didn't expect him to win at Spring Stampede 1999. I really was expecting Sting become champion again.

[@alexandru5369]

Worst part for Paige is that he lost 100s of thousands by getting bought out if his WCW contract

[@stephenlindsay3792]

DDP was the guy that went out there every night and got bashed all over the ring, only to beat the oods and come back only to be jumped by the nwo moments before hitting that awesome diamond cutter, he was the unlikely hero underdog little engine that could, that's why people (me) loved him. It would've made waaay more sense to make the undertaker heal against DDP.

[@ElFamosoArt]

If the invasion started a little late with Steiner, stinger,ddp, Booker t, Goldberg, and nwo it would've been so sick!

[@ektran4205]

scott steiner signed with WWAS when wcw folded

[@allenmcfarlinmcfarlin8440]

Great vid.

[@bcschoening]

DDP was my favorite in the mid-late 90's. His matches with Savage were always clutch.

[@mercuryman1250]

I thought DDP impact in the WWF started off good. Then vince didn't think high enough or confident enough that he would be a star. Vince can be wrong at times

[@Yogsoggeth]

DDP has a youtube channel ey. He does yoga now! I think it's called DDPYOGA

[@MrLewis-lr8ep]

Nah I think it was Buff Bagwell who was the first to get screwed over by Vince.

[@ektran4205]

buff was a terrible professional

[@Nicksuavemusic]

Just my opinion Raven or vampiro would of made a better stalker than ddp

[@xPadge112x]

I always wonder were creative floating the idea of bringing David Flair in. I'd imagine he didn't get a Time Warner contract. This seems made for him.

[@CJCrump]

When a wrestler appeared on Sunday Night Heat, they reached the beginning of the end.

[@thewildcard83]

As a Page fan, this pissed me off. The debut was amazing and DDP intentionally going for the biggest dog in the yard could have been amazing, but no.

[@CrzyLaAnd]

What is the difference in how moves were sold between WCW and WWF/E? It's mentioned in the video and I tried to find info in it but came up empty.

[@StunnedByWrestling]

WWE wrestlers are taught specifically to work the left hand side of the body as much as possible. They are taught to wrestle for television, remembering to face the hard camera at all times. There's more to it than that, but it's all to do with wrestling for TV. These days they send everyone to their performance center for 'retraining', even if they've been wrestling for 10 years outside WWE

[@randyhavard6084]

Everyone I knew at that time that watched wrestling loved Diamond Dallas Page

[@jetla22]

I blame Undertaker. I'm convinced he had something to do with. He destroyed Kanyon who was friends with DDP. And I also remember Taker looking awkward when Joe Rogan brought him up on podcast

[@MohammaDoesLife]

YO, it's ME it's ME it's DDP!!

[@Malaki727]

I use to love this guy he had heart

[@Nicksuavemusic]

As far as wcw wrestlers not knowing the wwf style that is actually true Austin said Vince had him work with savio initially to teach him the wwf style same with Jericho when Vince made him work with x pac initially

[@dodgeramsport01]

Way back when, You could watch both NWA/WCW and WWF and see the fakeness and comic book shit show that the WWF was! So yes there was a totaly differant style!

[@getnotoriousXBL]

Diamond Cutter 4 life! It's sad that WWE wasted DDP's talent.

[@187mrsmith]

Basically Vincent did not like the fact that some of the top WCW wrestlers were beloved by the WWF fans so once he seen that pop he basically buried there careers instead of using That to get new interest and bring the attention back to wrestling vince would rather make less an be petty then make more an have his feelings hurt!

[@eliezercaraballo2895]

One of my favorites of all time

[@Smilesimon17317]

Completely disagree with your reporting on the positively page gimmick. The crowd actually loved this and got behind him because they thought it was funny and the WM18 match was one of the better ones that night IMHO. The ending was great and DDP’s sign off was great. It only stopped because of the injury sadly. The first yoga promo was so funny but now taken off the network. You have to see it on KZbin. The stalker thing though was very bad.

[@sriley064]

Especially because Sara looked about as sexy as a hairy foot that spends all day in a work boot and Kimberly was a fucking nitro girl

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Most of us fans appreciated both companies. I definitely preferred WCW, but still liked some of WWF. I wasn't really watching at this point, but it's not a surprise they would pop for him.

[@adamrobinette6832]

They gave DDP a good spot to bring him in. He was coming straight in and working with Taker. Problem was that Taker's American Badass gimmick had really grown stale, especially when he was bringing his wife out as his valet. Fans were tired of it. Meanwhile DDP's stalker character was supposed to be a pure evil, heat generating character. When he unmasked, the roof blew off, and he was 1000 miles over Taker in that moment, that feud was completely dead. They played it out. But it was really DOA. They had plans for DDP to be a top heel, because he could be a damn good one, and the crowd just loved him too much. Now you have this guy from WCW you really needed to be a heel, you can't make a heel, and a locker room full of faces. Austin, Taker, The Rock, HHH, Brock, etc was there while DDP was there. There is no way they are putting a guy that just came from WCW over all of those guys. They just aren't.

[@187mrsmith]

This is why the WCW being around made it good for business cus it made Vince not be allowed to do over ridiculous stupid things & get away with it he had a competitor that was on his heels so he had to make sure to make the product good and interesting once they lost their competition that's when you start to see the stories get weak get boring or just trying too much different stuff that actually worked against everything they built up I understand Things were changing then but u still could of kept the attitude era going 4 a while if it wasn't 4 WCW going out of business cus competition brings out the best in regards 2 making shows like this

[@jesterr7133]

I don't know how that narrative about WWE fans not being familiar with WCW came to be. I watched both shows every single week. When one was on commercial, I would switch to the other. I loved seeing the WCW guys pop up in WWE.

[@wadeadams4263]

The man is an inspiration right up there with David Arquette

[@mrbransformer4184]

DDP is just such a good guy that loves wrestling and didn’t want to stop giving back, and he was at that perfect storm age of where he actually kinda needed to go to WWF to kinda finish the career, too bad Vince was so bitter, Bichoff would have seen the money not tried to squash a beef. He proved it that night he said he’d let Vince beat him on PPV.