WWE Hall Of Famer Diamond Dallas Page recently did an interview with Wrestle List to talk about a variety of professional wrestling topics. Page discussed the health of professional wrestlers, his relationship with Terry Funk, and Vader being upset with him. You can check out the highlights from the interview here:
The health of professional wrestlers:
“You have to remember, no-one even iced their knees or their back or their shoulders. No-one iced their body in professional wrestling before me. I did it because I was 35, 36, 37. I was already what would have been considered an old timer. I did chiropractic, I did deep muscle massage therapy, so I was already doing all that stuff before. And I stretched!
“I stretched my whole career – it didn’t save me when I blew my back and and of course, that’s where the whole things of DDP Yoga comes from. There’s probably about 40 wrestlers who do the DDPY program in WWE and God, I don’t know how many independent wrestlers.”
His relationship with Terry Funk:
“I just sent Terry Funk the program, because I know he’s talking about getting back into the ring for one time at 73 years young. I love Terry to death so I said, “Terry if I send you this will you take a look and try it?” Terry was an amazing athlete at one time, so he’s done a lot of stuff. He’s never tried this before but I said Jerry Briscoe loves it bro, and said it gave him his life back. I hope it helps him. If I had a relationship with them, I think it could’ve helped a lot of the guys, but it took a long time. DDP Yoga is a 10-year overnight success, which means it took me 10 years to get anybody to give a s–t.”
Recent spat with Vader:
“I love Vader, but he got his feelings hurt because I said “Leon I really need you to live here in Atlanta. I need you to take off wrestling for a while,” and financially he just couldn’t swing it. And he got kind of mad at me, and I said “Leon I can’t really help you,” and I didn’t mean it like “I won’t help you.”
“A lot of the guys need that hands-on thing until they understand the DVDs and the App. Because I’m married now I can’t move any of the guys in, I can have them for a couple of days or whatever, but I just want them to come and move to Atlanta. I understand this business, it’s tough, but I just didn’t want him to think I didn’t want to help him because that’s absurd! (Laughter)”
You can read Diamond Dallas Page’s full interview with Wrestle List by visiting this link.
