Stone Cold Steve Austin is arguably WWE’s biggest star ever. Not coincidentally, his run at the top was the most successful period in the world of wrestling. He was part of several storylines that are still looked back at fondly. However, not everything he touched was gold. The Rattlesnake had his share of stinkers. The perks of being a top star though, is that one can say no if the story seems too awry and this is exactly what Sone Cold did when he was asked to play the part of Undertaker’s wife’s stalker!
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Diamond Dallas Page, one of WCW’s biggest stars, jumped ship to WWE as part of the WCW Invasion Angle. However, his WWE run was doomed from the start! The once insanely popular babyface was sandbagged with the controversial character.
The WWE Hall of Famer later found out that the storyline was originally written with WWE’s own biggest baby face ever in mind. Stone Cold Steve Austin informed DDP that he turned the storyline down and the former WCW Champion regretted not doing the same.
WWE originally wanted Stone Cold Steve Austin to stalk The Undertaker’s wife
During a conversation with GiveMeSport back in 2018, DDP revealed that he hated the idea immediately. However, he tried to be a team player and accepted the part even though he was worried for himself because at the time there were a lot of people who believed everything they saw on television.
He also revealed that they couldn’t get anyone to play the part that eventually fell into his lap.
“ They built this storyline and couldn’t get anybody to do it. That’s the real deal,” DDP said. “They wanted [Steve] Austin to do it. And Austin is like ‘f*uck that!’ and he told me about that later and I was like ‘you couldn’t have called me up and said that to me?!’”
DDP also spoke about his prospects in the WWE stating that he believed he was actually going to be used well. However, he understood the rationale behind his burying and harbored no ill feelings, claiming that it would have ended the same for Sting or Goldberg as well.
“It had nothing to do with me personally. It could have been Sting or Goldberg or whoever. Whoever it was, was going to get fed to whoever it was in the top angle because it was ego and it was business.”
Life after WWE for Diamond Dallas Page
Page’s storyline with the WWE culminated at SummerSlam 2001 where he and Kanyon fought and lost to The Undertaker and Kane. He announced his retirement a year after his WWE debut following a botched superplex that led to a serious neck injury.
DDP continued to make wrestling appearance. However, most of his energy has been spent on his company DDP Yoga. He even made an appearance on the Shark Tank where he was praised for what he had already built but they turned him down believing that he had already reached his ceiling.
Interestingly, the WWE Hall of Famer made over a million in sales just a week after his appearance on the hit TV show.
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017 by his former boss Eric Bischoff, although he has mentioned since that he wanted the late Dusty Rhodes to have done the favors instead.
“‘I wish Dusty was here.’ That’s who should have inducted me,” DDP said on his DDP Snake Pit podcast. “The cool thing about Bischoff was he noticed that and he knew that. And that’s something he put in there, that I’m not supposed to be the guy.”
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