Diamond Dallas Page was recently the guest for a special double interview on WGD Weekly with Steve and the Scum. He talked about working with David Arquette, Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker and more. You can read some highlights below:
Working with David Arquette in WCW and the reaction of the fans to his becoming WCW Champion:
“David Arquette is his own animal. As much heat as he ever took, for him, . all the money he made for that pay per view when he busted me over the head with the guitar and Jarrett took the World Title, the money he made, he gave to Melanie Pillman. When he pinned Bischoff, not me, and I will go on record as saying that was the biggest cluster fu*k ever! and it never should’ve happened, but it did. That being said, that was the booking committee, it was not David Arquette, and every fan that has ever roasted him should dip their own ass in boiling oil, because everyone of you that has buried David Arquette if put in the same position, you would’ve jumped through a hoop of burning oil to do the same sh*t. That’s why when everybody busts balls on that, I just want to smack someone. I’m like really, you, ‘marko mark?’ You would’ve died for that.”
A conversation he had in his early days wrestling in WCW backstage with Hulk Hogan:
“I walked through the curtain after my match and Hulk pulls me over and he says, ‘how are you getting so much better?’ I said, ‘wow, Hulk, thanks, how do you even know?’ He goes, ‘I’ve been watching your match the last couple nights.’ I’m thinking, your watching my matches? So, he says, this is what they are doing, I don’t hardly ever see you on TV, just once in a while. He says, this is what they are doing with you, they’re letting you learn your craft on the road here. I said, I go to the Power Plant, he said, what is the Power Plant. I told Hulk, I figured out that the more that I train people down there. and if you only work when they book you, then you never really get any good, because you’re not wrestling enough. I go down there every day I’m not wrestling and what I figured out is the more I train people, the more I learn and the more I learn! the better I got. Hulk really didn’t understand it because he came from a different generation where you went from one territory to another, but he said, well, whatever it is your doing you need to keep doing it because it might not be this year, or next year, or even the year after, but if you keep doing what you’re doing, somewhere down the line, you and I can draw huge money together, and then he walked away.”
