DDP tells a story about WCW's newest arrival, Hulk Hogan pulling him aside and asking how he's improving so drastically. DDP joked that the office doesn't see anything in him and the only reason he was on the card was because he had a hot wife that walked him to the ring, and that he was contemplating heading up to New York to join Hall and Nash because they had a lot of stroke. Hulk asked him to hold off and told him that not that year, and maybe not the year after, but that DDP was someone he could see himself drawing money with down the line. Austin adds that Hogan isn't a guy who gives a lot of lip service so if he said that he must've genuinely felt that way. The Hulkster then told Eric Bischoff - who hadn't yet ascended to the top of the WCW throne - that he needed to do something with Dallas. Bischoff told his friend that the booking committee just didn't view him as a potential star and offered to give him his release so he could go to WWE and hopefully make a name for himself, that way he could return to WCW where Eric could pay him what he was worth. Dallas told Eric that he'd gotten endorsements from Jody Hamilton, Jake Roberts, Dusty Rhodes and Hulk Hogan and he wasn't going anywhere. He says that WCW never made one superstar - mentioning Sting while remarking that he came from Bill Watts' territory - and said he was going to make it his mission to be that guy. "Four years later I'm on The Tonight Show with Karl Malone, shooting the angle with Rodman and Hogan. Four years later. You talk about manifesting a dream into reality? It was sick." This was much better than part one of their interview that I recapped last week, as there was plenty of wrestling talk and behind-the-stories from his career.
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