For a whopping four months, the King of Bada-Bing joined Total Nonstop Action to help out the little company that could (or thought they could, theyve still yet to do much...). Page joined TNA back when they were airing on Fox Sports Networks on Friday afternoons, which is why most dont remember his run. While Page was a star in WCW, he flopped like no mans business in WWE due to atrocious booking. After a short run there, he retired at the age of 46 due to years of neck injuries. It seemed like it would be the last wed ever see the master of the self high-five, and it was a sad way to go out. A couple years later, he surprisingly un-retired and joined up with the smaller company to reignite his WCW feud with Raven, which he subsequently won. Then he went on to the main event scene to battle Jeff Jarrett (because thats what every big name from WCW and WWE had to do!). If you dont remember Page in TNA, thats fine, you're forgiven. After all, he only had nine matches through his entire run there. Once Dusty Rhodes was ousted from power, Page left too. His last match on a national stage? Teaming up with Ron Killings in a losing effort to Monty Brown and The Outlaw. Did you feel the bang from that one? No? Yeah, I didnt either. Still, it beats losing to Sara Undertaker.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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