Diamond Dallas Page explains how he hesitantly turned to yoga to overcome his wrestling injuries. Page went on to found DDP Yoga, a program that borrows ...
========== Yo. It’s me. DDP, Diamond Dallas Page. I
didn’t become a professional wrestler until I was 35 years old. My career did not take
off until I was 40. That was in 1996 when wrestling blew through the rafters in the
cable industry. Monday Night Wars were a huge part of that. Pro Wrestling Illustrated rated
Stone Cold Steve Austin as number one and DDP as number four both years which was really
crazy coming from obscurity like that. And then I blew my back out. And I blew my back
out so badly that three different back specialists said my career was over. I’d actually ruptured
my L4 and L5 and it was really bad. Just signed a multimillion dollar three year deal. I mean
I finally got paid so, you know, this was the time I worked so hard to get to and now
it was all gone. Around that time I was m...