I can't thank Marty Adams enough for this. He set me all up with chance to meet these guys. The only way I can properly repay him for what I owe him, would be to put up a big ass plug for http://www.ccc4u.com the number one sports collectible site in the midwest. Don't forget to check out http://www.thewrestlingguys.com either. I also did interviews with Chuck Palumbo and Mike Sanders of the Natural Born Thrillaz, which will be up shortly. All the guys were nice and respectable. I had the oppurtunity to talk to Les Thatcher for a while too. He's quite a nice guy. He talked about tag teaming with J.J. Dillon in the old Georgia Championship territory, as well as his thoughts on wrestling now a days. It was quite a night.

To show you the kind of guy Page is I'll just tell you what happened when I first walked up to him. A couple local FOX News affiliate guys were there to interview him and kind of cut me off. Marty started introducing us, and before he even got to me, Page reached out over one of the guys and shook my hand.

BJ Bethel: So hows it goin?

Diamond Dallas Page: Gettin' Healthy...

BJ: How's the arm doing?

DDP: Actually, its my back. I ruptured my L4 and L5. It was actually an angular tear. Its because it goes around your spine and your disc. And I've been doing a lot of rehab... BJ: I heard you were doing a lot of Yoga, is that helping out?

DDP: I'm VERY into it. It's one of those things that once I get going I can't stop talking about it. My wife actually got me into it, and I went and got a personal trainer. I won't be stretching here if I have to do anything, but I strech everyday. Its stretching from one move, into another move, into another. Its called Power Yoga and I have to make sure I'm doing it the right way. I also went to this spine specialist. Its the same one Perry Saturn and Raven went to and its called Watkins-Glen Rehabilitation Method and what it is, is you know those five muscles around your spine, if you push your back flat on the ground, and you do stuff with weights and concentrate on your stomach, it strengthens your spine. I felt a difference the first week. I started doing it with dumbbells and the leg weights, cuz when I start doing something I do it right, I don't around.

BJ: Yeah. Now were you a big wrestling fan growing up?

DDP: Yeah, ever since I was 8 years old.

BJ: Really, who was your favorites?

DDP: Ah, growing up I loved "Classie" Freddie Blassie and "Captain" Lou Albano. I liked the talkers even though they were managers at the time. When I was a teenager I loved "Handsome" Jimmy Valiant, "Superstar" Billy Grahmam, those guys were the shit to me.

BJ: *laughs* You liked all the heel guys and all the trash talkers.

DDP: YEAH, thats what I wanted to be. I never wanted to be a good guy. But its hard not to cheer someone busting their ass everynight, and coming up with new stuff. And I just did a movie up in Calgary, my scenes were with Cuba Gooding Jr. and his stunt man. Me and Kim are both in it. In it, Jerry Zucker who did Airplane! and Gun, he asked me if I could combine two of my moves together and turn it into one. And I was like "Nah, I can't really do that." Well, I thought about it and he kept asking me. Well, I finally did it. I didn't think Cuba could do it, because he's not a wrestler but he's a great athelete annnnd he did it. *laughs* Its going to be a move I'll bring out eventually.

BJ: You got a name for it yet?

DDP: The "Zucker Zapper".

BJ: Really, so when you come back...

DDP: Yeah, whenever I come back. Right now I'm not at liberty to talk about it. Right now, there's a lot of rumors out there. Your the first person I've even talked to. There's a lot of rumors out there right now and everyone keeps asking me. Right now isn't a time to talk about it.

BJ: Yeah, because of all the legalities and such...

DDP: And right now all I'm talk about is rehab, or... *laughs*

BJ: Ok, well one thing I always wanted to ask you, in '95 you were feuding with Mero/Badd and you did the angle with Kimberly where you wasted all her money, you being the bad guy heel, Who was it that came up with having you go out into the street with the squeege?

DDP: That was me.

BJ: Really??!?

DDP: Yeah, and that was around the time I started becoming a babyface, because I had gone to the bottom of the barrel and then came back up. And underneath, thats really been my story the whole time, fighting from underneath. I was the guy who broke into wrestling at 32 and a half as a manager and became a color commentator and at 35 and a half became a wrestler. This just doesn't happen. There's been so many things said about my age. I seen some things saying I was 50. I'm actually 44. *laughs* I look better then I ever did, I feel better then I ever have and I've never had the psychology and the work experience that I have now and really, I've only been at the focal point of wrestling for 5 years, so really I'm not over.

BJ: So basically your feeling better now then you ever have?

DDP: I haven't felt this good since my feud with Savage.

BJ: Wow.

DDP:.. and thats when my ribs were killing me. And you can't take that elbow from the top rope and not be hurting. And I had to take it night after night after night after night, and sometimes I had to take it three nights in a row.

BJ: Damn, and you guys were on all the house shows.

DDP: Oh, I'm telling you man. I tore all my cartilage from one side to the other. I'm not talking about red muscle. I'm talking about white muscle. Its not like red muscle, white muscle takes forever so I worked the whole time, but there was no way I was not going to continue that angle. Thats what made me.

BJ: Now, what made you a star in my eyes, was when you went out with Scott Hall, you put on the NWO t-shirt, you grabbed his hand, then pulled him in for the Diamond Cutter. That was one of my favorite mark out moments...

DDP: No one saw that coming...

BJ: What was it like with the crowd chanting your name after that?

DDP: It was weird. It had so many similarities to me and Jake. Jake's one of my mentors. If you read Positively Page, you know which you can get off amazon.com. now ...*laughs*

BJ: *laughs* When is it coming out on paperback?

DDP: I'm not going to do that until I know where I am, or what I'm doing because I've been approached by people to do it. We published it ourselves, and that was our biggest mistake. *laughs* We sold 50,000 copies so far. I should've sold, in' 500 but we did it ourselves and when you do it like that you dont get the distribution. But in it, I talk alot about Jake and Jake's DDT. It was the most over move in the 80's. The Diamond- Cutter is the most over move from the mid-90's to now. Everyone has variations of it now, everybody steals it. To me, its a compliment. It was given to me from Johnny Ace, but he does it different. He does it with one hand and like this *does motion* I do it out of nowhere. Jake did the DDT 10 different ways. I can do the Diamond Cutter 50. The thing with Scott Hall, that was huge, that was the beginning of the story of this. But Randy, beating Randy, because no one thought I was going to beat Randy Savage. Thats when beating somebody meant something. Today its a lot harder. But Scott taking that was huge, and backdropping Kevin and going out into the crowd. I had never done that before.

BJ: Were you ever scared when you went out and did that?

DDP: Nah, see I'm a people guy. When guys go to the V.I.P. sections and all that shit, I go to the bar unless it gets overwhelming and sometimes it will, but most of the time people are pretty cool with me, they want to drink with me, hang with me. They just want to see if I'm a nice guy, and to see if I'm a real version of that guy. Being with Cuba, I wanted to believe he's the guy I see in... pick any of his movies, and he's a version of everyone of those guys, and he's the nicest guy on the planet. To me, I treat people the way they treat me. The guys that bury me all the time, bust on my ass, go on the internet, or whatever, I have no time for them. You treat me like a person, you treat me right, I'm gonna treat you right. I'd treat you the way I wanna be treated.

BJ: Now, when your first world title at the four way match early last year. Now, when did you find out that was going to happen? Was it a spur of the moment thing?

DDP: Kevin Nash actually came up to me. He was booking at the time.

BJ: Did it give you chills?

DDP: He mentioned it. I was like, I don't believe nothing until it happens. You know, I'm happy with Kev. But I tell you what meant the most to me, and it didn't even mean the most to me when I won it right then. It meant the most to me when I went into the locker room, and Hulk's sitting on the chair and as I walked in he's taking off his boots, and looks up to me, and says "that's the way its supposed to be." And I didn't even say anything. And he goes, "A guy works as hard as you did, to accomplish what you accomplished when no one believed you could do it, thats the way things are supposed to be."

BJ: Thanks a lot man, I really appreciate it. Hope we get to see you someplace VERY soon...

DDP: *laughs*...somewhere.

BJ: *laughs* Yeah, SOMEWHERE. Thanks a ton, man.

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