10 Weirdest Wrestling Debuts Ever
4. Diamond Dallas Page
On the June 18, 2001 RAW, the Undertaker's remixed Limp Bizkit theme blared over the arena sound system.
'Dead Man Walking' intoned the Undertaker. Not strictly true: the dead man rode to the ring in a motorcycle before revealing himself as the Undertaker's wife's stalker: it was him, it was him, it was salt-of-the-earth WCW star Diamond Dallas Page repackaged as a pervert. The man we all knew shared a bed with Nitro Girl founder Kimberly in Georgia now held a disturbing interest in Sara.
Unmasking, DDP cut a promo in which he effectively acknowledged that he wasn't famous, not like Stone Cold Steve Austin, and had targeted 'Taker to find fame in the WWF.
"Make me famous!"
"Infamous, gotcha."
At the subsequent King Of The Ring pay-per-view, 'Taker responded to Page's request and totally creamed the poor prick in an unbelievably damaging one-sided beatdown you could scarcely believe was actually taking place. This was categorically sh*t-for-brained; Page looked like a jobber in the minds of the casuals, and to the hardcores who had fantasised over this WWF Vs. WCW warfare stuff, 'Taker looked like a man very well-suited to his IRL forename.
This did not a thing for anybody, and is remembered as the low point of both men's careers.
"Move in, now move out," went the lyrics of 'Taker's theme - yet another thing he took far too literally.