13 Things We Learned From DDP On The Steve Austin Show Part 2

The name, the birth of the gimmick, and how Hulk Hogan talked him out of leaving WCW.

By Brad Hamilton /

Yoga guru and former professional wrestling superstar Diamond Dallas Page returned for part two of his appearance on The Steve Austin Show, and this time it€™s all about wrestling. The first installment from last week primarily featured discussion about DDP€™s yoga empire and tales from his personal life, and while intriguing in many aspects, most people tuning into Stone Cold€™s show want to hear talk about wrestling, especially when interviewing a guy with a career as impressive as Page. Austin calls DDP one of his best friends and remarks several times throughout the podcast that he€™s never even heard some of these stories before, and even for fans who€™ve read his autobiography there€™s some new information to be found. Find out what it was like making the recently-released hard-hitting documentary The Resurrection Of Jake The Snake. There€™s also tales of him befriending famous wrestlers years before breaking into the business, how Page Falkinburg became Diamond Dallas Page, plus how he got his start in the AWA. And this all more so read on check it out...

13. Why He Helped Jake Roberts

We kick off the festivities with DDP imparting some of his patented Page positivity, discussing the importance of "owning your life". Stone Cold mentions how astonishingly far Jake Roberts has come since DDP got ahold of him and asks if he Jake owns his life now. Dallas responds that he's on his way, and he's taken more ownership of it than ever before. He reminds Austin that he asked DDP if he was crazy when he initially told him he was moving The Snake into his home to try and get him clean and sober, and Steve laughs. He says that without Jake Roberts, he would never have been a 3-time world champion or a main event guy, stating that he owes so much of his career accomplishments to what he learned from Roberts. "He gave me a lot, so I wanted to pay him back."