Since I started watching pro wrestling in the 1990s, Diamond Dallas Page has always been one of my favorites. He was all blue jeans and taped ribs and frizzy blond hair, spinning punches and out-of-nowhere Diamond Cutters (his signature finishing move). His enthusiasm and energy in the ring had a way of making every match he was in seem massively important and exciting.
After DDP finished his wrestling career, he went to work creating, of all things, a yoga workout routine he would unimaginatively call DDP Yoga. It's become a massive success and I'm glad to see Page hasn't devolved into the broken-down former wrestler stereotype.
After DDP finished his wrestling career, he went to work creating, of all things, a yoga workout routine he would unimaginatively call DDP Yoga. It's become a massive success and I'm glad to see Page hasn't devolved into the broken-down former wrestler stereotype.
A long feature article posted yesterday at Deadspin by the excellent Tom Ley shows me a side of DDP I wasn't aware of: He's opened his home to former wrestlers Scott Hall and Jake Roberts, who have both struggled mightily with addiction issues over the years.
It's a fascinating article and a great look at three guys whose lives have been shaped by the world of professional wrestling -- in good ways and bad ways -- and now are intertwined by something much more vital: the pursuit of clarity and health in middle age.
