10 Things We Learned From DDP On Stone Cold’s Broken Skull Podcast
8. Footage Of His WWF Tryout Is Amazing
After dabbling in the dying AWA and working some colour commentary shots in Florida, DDP's friendship with Dusty Rhodes bagged him an announcing tryout with the WWF. Austin pulled up some footage of this, and it almost makes the latest 'Broken Skull' show worth the price of admission alone.
It's the sh*ts.
Page worked in front of a green screen audience with Lord Alfred Hayes. Gene Okerlund counted them in, then DDP went way over-the-top by nervously ploughing his way through some material - he ended up cutting Hayes off at every turn. Austin said it best by critiquing with a cold, "You didn't knock that one out of the park".
Dallas knows that now, and he knew it almost instantly after the tryout back then. He also told a cool story about Heyman warning that the WWF would rib him by asking if he'd pull on his ponytail. That actually happened, and it seems Bruce Prichard was behind the gentle p*ss taking.