Diamond Dallas Page joined Chris Van Vliet on his INSIGHT podcast this week for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
While on the popular pro wrestling program, DDP spoke about working with Lex Luger, his WWE Royal Rumble surprise appearance, as well as whether or not Randy Orton ever asked if he could use The Diamond Cutter in WWE as his “RKO” finisher.
The following are highlights from the interview where he speaks on these subjects.
On his Royal Rumble surprise entry: “No one knows it. We have The Resurrection of Jake the Snake at the Slamdance Film Festival, the same time as the other big Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, no one knows. I fly up to Jersey and they drive us into Philly, they’re having a big party, and everybody’s saying I’m not there because my throat, oh my God, my throat was so bad. There was an interview on YouTube of me with Larry King and Scott [Hall] and Jake [Roberts] and I blew it out pushing myself too much. So I got enough of a voice to talk, and I get a text from Cody [Rhodes]. He goes, how apropos, I will be the first that you hit with the cutter. And it was Cody, and then Fandango, and then the immortal Bray Wyatt, bring it in, boom, boom, boom. Then PS Hayes, the booker, right? He’s booking this whole thing. He goes, and then you know what happens? Me and Bubba, who’s also going to be in the Rumble, look at each other. Here comes Randy. [Hayes said] So he’s going to take you out, me and Bubba looked at him like, really? Wait a second, The Legend Killer? Randy, a lot of people have heard me talk about him. One of my favorites, one of my favorites of all time. I think the most underrated guy maybe ever in our business. Because even though he’s seen here, he could be on Mount Rushmore. I mean, he’s had everything, and he’s still got the look and the size and the rap and the work and the promo. I mean, again, he’s a guy who’s gotten all the breaks and freaking kicked their asses. The Legend Killer, but hasn’t killed me yet [laughs]. I want to take it so bad. I had this vision of the Rumble. He comes down. Here, comes Randy. He goes for it, and I get out of it. Then I go for it, he gets out of it, and then it turns into, of course, the RKO.”
On whether or not Randy Orton asked to use the Diamond Cutter: “Randy wasn’t there when I left. I called him later on about it. I wanted him to use it. But he never remembered the phone call, because he was coming out of surgery, and it was right around the time that I had called him, he was all banged up, because you come out of surgery and stuff. Johnny Ace is really the originator of the one arm kick it out. Randy took it with the jump, and Randy did things with that sh*t that I wasn’t athletic enough to do what he did, and I love what he did with it. But my favorite cutter ever, I had him on an interview with me recently, Sammy Guevara and Cody. Before that, it was Frankie [Kazarian] and Chris [Daniels].”
On working with Lex Luger: “When he saw the Butterbean video, we were both at Sting’s last match. I’m sitting there watching the monitor, and we’re the two guys who are WWE guys, basically said we’re going, you good with that? We’re not going to go on camera. And they were great. He rolled up next to me, and he goes, ‘Dally, I saw the Butterbean video, bro. I didn’t know you had chair workouts.’ I said, ‘Well, I didn’t have them back when you and I were working, I got them now.’ He goes, ‘Do you think maybe we could start?’ I’m like, ‘Dude, how many times have I asked you to start back up again? Absolutely, come over Monday.’ And we got met up after that and we’ve been working together, whenever Sting’s match was, that following Monday?”
Check out the complete interview via the YouTube player embedded below. H/T to Chris Van Vliet for sending along the above quotes.
