History Wrestling / DiamondDallasPage

As with many wrestlers, his years in the business had a severe physical toll. After leaving wrestling, he turned to UsefulNotes/{{Yoga}} to help rehabilitate his body and became an absolute fanatic when he realized how much of a positive effect it had on his life. Realizing that most men think of yoga as being a "feminine" pursuit, he developed "Yoga for Regular Guys" and launched a health and fitness website, along with a line of classes and instructional videos that aim to make the art more straightforward, before rebranding it as "[[http://www.ddpyoga.com/ DDP Yoga]]".

As with many wrestlers, his years in the business had a severe physical toll. After leaving wrestling, he turned to UsefulNotes/{{Yoga}} to help rehabilitate his body and became an absolute fanatic when he realized how much of a positive effect it had on his life. Realizing that most men think of yoga as being a "feminine" pursuit, he developed "Yoga for Regular Guys" and launched a health and fitness website, along with a line of classes and instructional videos, before rebranding it as "[[http://www.ddpyoga.com/ DDP Yoga]]"

* CaptainErsatz: In the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance versions of ''Videogame/FireProWrestling''.

* AbortedArc: After being fired from WCW (in Kayfabe) in 1996 and becoming homeless, a mysterious benefactor helped Page out of poverty and brought him back into WCW a few months later. The identity of this benefactor was never revealed and WCW seemed to have forgotten about it once the [=nWo=] storyline took off.

* TheBusCameBack: He was fired by Bill Watts in 1992 and wouldn't return to WCW until 1994.

-> "This is the end of my trope page. But that's not a bad thing... That's a good thing. Why? Because now you can go read another page on [[Wiki/TVTropes this wiki!]]"

* TrueCompanions: DDP has a lot of friends in the industry, but he's particularly close to Wrestling/JakeRoberts and Wrestling/ScottHall, both of whom he invited to come and live together with him (in his "Accountability Crib") to help them fight off their crippling substance and alcohol addictions and put their lives back together. While the overall results have differed (Hall still battles the occasional relapse whereas Roberts is completely clean), the fact is both men are far more likely to make their next appearance in a wrestling ring than a casket, and both men are unashamed to admit that DDP unambiguously saved their lives. This is unsurprising in Jake's case, as Jake is [[TheMentor one of the guys who trained Dallas to wrestle]].

As with many wrestlers, his years in the business had a severe physical toll. After leaving wrestling, he turned to yoga to help rehabilitate his body and became an absolute fanatic when he realized how much of a positive effect it had on his life. Realizing that most men think of yoga as being a "feminine" pursuit, he developed "Yoga for Regular Guys" and launched a health and fitness website, along with a line of classes and instructional videos, before rebranding it as "[[http://www.ddpyoga.com/ DDP Yoga]]"

* OlderThanTheyLook: DDP really doesn't look much different now than he did in WCW apart from his shorter hair.

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* TrueCompanions: DDP has a lot of friends in the industry, but he's particularly close to Wrestling/JakeRoberts and Wrestling/ScottHall, both of whom he invited to come and live together with him (in his "Accountability Crib") to help them fight off their crippling substance and alcohol addictions and put their lives back together. Both men are unashamed to admit that DDP unambiguously saved their lives. This is unsurprising in Jake's case, as Jake is [[TheMentor one of the guys who trained Dallas to wrestle]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The aforementioned "cookies" incident, which ended with him getting his revenge on Austin and Foley, all while shouting, [[MemeticMutation "How do you like it?! HOW DO YOU LIKE FUCKING COOKIES IN YOUR BED?!"]] Foley, however, responded to this by making fun of Page's tendency to [[SleepsInTheNude sleep in the nude]]: "It's not the cookies that I mind. It's the fact that you're rubbing your naked ass all over me."

* ImpersonationGambit: On the July 7, 1997 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', Randy Savage was scheduled to face MaskedLuchador Wrestling/LaParka. The match seemed to be going along as usual, with Parka doing his usual dancing and strutting. Out of nowhere, "Parka" hit a Diamond Cutter and unmasked as DDP and got the pin. This actually raised Parka's profile in WCW a bit, as, for a short time, he would walk out to the ring and Kimberly would be standing by the entrance and raising the sign of the Diamond Cutter. On DDP's section of WCW's website, someone asked how he got Parka to loan him his costume. DDP said, [[MoneyDearBoy "I gave him a hundred bucks."]]

** After successfully selling $3,000,000' worth of [=DVDs=] and books for DDP Yoga and making $895,000 in net profits, Dallas took a filmmaker and a successful client to ''Shark Tank'' to pitch the Sharks on investing $200,000 in the company for 5% ownership in order to expand to an online format by creating a DDP Yoga app. Despite being impressed with the entire presentation, the investors all rejected it, citing various concerns based on fitness brands trending up and down and the transition being a drain on time and resources. The following week after the appearance saw him make a million sales, which would mean more than enough money to make the app, and DDP Yoga is still going strong to this day.

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[[caption-width-right:276:"Yo! It's me, it's me. It's DDP!"]]

As with many wrestlers, his years in the business had a severe physical toll. After leaving wrestling, he turned to yoga to help rehabilitate his body and became an absolute fanatic when he realized how much of a positive effect it had on his life. Realizing that most men think of yoga as being a "feminine" pursuit, he developed "Yoga for Regular Guys" and launched a health and fitness website, along withe a line of classes and instructional videos, before rebranding it as "[[http://www.ddpyoga.com/ DDP Yoga]]"

* BadassGrandpa: At the time of his debut in 1991, he was, at 35 years old, the oldest rookie in history. Since then, however, [[Wrestling/{{Boogeyman}} The Boogeyman]] (who started wrestling at ''forty'') has taken that title.

He became a major player in the "Invasion" storyline following Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s buyout of WCW, and was so excited to work for [=WWE=] that he took a buyout on his contract to the tune of $.50 on a dollar. What happened was an abysmal trainwreck of a storyline that ended with him playing the part of a stalker, and later leaving the business altogether. He now maintains a health and fitness website called [[http://www.ddpyoga.com/ DDP Yoga]] (formerly Yoga for Regular Guys).

->'''''"Bada Bing, Bada Boom, Bada BANG!!!"'''''

"Diamond" Dallas Page (born Page Joseph Falkinburg, Jr. on April 5, 1956) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and fitness instructor best known for his stint in Wrestling/{{WCW}}. He'd actually debuted as a manager in the [[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation AWA]] in the 80s, but some time after he showed up in WCW, he made the transition to wrestler. Gradually, over the next decade, he became one of the biggest names WCW had to offer, with a showy personality and one of the most popular {{Finishing Move}}s in the business (the Diamond Cutter), until the company's buyout in 2001.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The aforementioned "cookies" incident, which ended with him getting his revenge on Austin and Foley, all while shouting, [[MemeticMutation "How do you like it?! HOW DO YOU LIKE FUCKING COOKIES IN YOUR BED?!"]] Foley, however, responded to this by making fun of Page's tendency to sleep in the nude: "It's not the cookies that I mind. It's the fact that you're rubbing your naked ass all over me."

** When DDP told Michael P.S. Hayes that he was making the transition to in-ring performer at the age of 35, Hayes responded by belly laughing in his face. Wrestling/TripleH recalls seeing Page in the Power Plant and thinking "what is this old guy doing here?" Until he saw Page's work ethic and perseverance. Wrestling/MickFoley, one of Dallas' long-time road buddies outright admitted that he thought Dallas' chances of making it were minimal at best. Very few people initially had faith in Page's ability to make it (and somewhat justifiably so), even Page himself only expected to last five years in the ring and never get even close to the world championship. Needless to say, he eventually proved his naysayers wrong and exceeded even his own expectations.

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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: When DDP told Michael P.S. Hayes that he was making the transition to in-ring performer at the age of 35, Hayes responded by belly laughing in his face. Wrestling/TripleH recalls seeing Page in the Power Plant and thinking "what is this old guy doing here?" Until he saw Page's work ethic and perseverance. Wrestling/MickFoley, one of Dallas' long-time road buddies outright admitted that he thought Dallas' chances of making it were minimal at best. Very few people initially had faith in Page's ability to make it (and somewhat justifiably so), even Page himself only expected to last five years in the ring and never get even close to the world championship. Needless to say, he eventually proved his naysayers wrong and exceeded even his own expectations.