- 02/20/2017 (2:04:56 pm)
- Bob Mulrenin
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Is there any more patient wrestler than Diamond Dallas Page? The New Jersey-bred superstar didn't break into sports-entertainment until his early 30s, first trained for in-ring competition at 35, and has enthusiastically witnessed mentors and protégés like Jake Roberts and Scott Hall get ushered into the WWE Hall of Fame while waiting to find out if his number would ever be called. Must be all that DDP Yoga.
But as of today, the wait is over, and we can exclusively confirm that Dallas Page will join Kurt Angle, the Rock 'n' Roll Express and Teddy Long in the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2017. Fans can watch Page's induction live on the WWE Network on March 31, but in the interim, we caught up with the 60-year-old, diamond-cutting icon about this career-capping honor, his improbable rise and the mentor he wishes was there to witness his HOF entry.
We were filming Positively Living, the Diamond Dallas Page three-DVD set. I'm a Jersey boy, so I was on the Jersey Shore in my hometown, and it was the end of the day and we were filming one more thing. They handed me the phone and said, "Boss wants to talk to you." It's HHH. I called him a couple weeks earlier and he hadn't gotten back to me yet, so I thought this was that return call. So we're talking about casual stuff, and then I start to hear him talk about my career and where I've been and how I got here, and then it hits me – is this that call? I'm not a guy who has trouble talking, but I couldn't talk. Tears are running down the sides of my cheeks and I just said, "Bro, I love you man."
So lest anyone think these calls are staged, you were caught off guard.
It was October. I know friends of mine, like Jake [Roberts] and Scott [Hall] – they found out in January. It was a magic moment and something I’ll never forget.
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