Pro wrestling storylines often pushed the boundary back within the day, especially when WCW guys tried to reestablish themselves in WWE after Vince McMahon acquired the promotion. Nonetheless, Diamond Dallas Page drew one in all the shortest sticks when he needed to play the stalker of The Undertaker’s ex-wife, Sara, and reveal himself as a sick obsessed individual as an alternative of a legitimate wrestler and WCW star.
During an interview with Denise Salcedo, while looking back on the angle, DDP explained what form of effect it had on his profession.
“Me and Mark [Calaway, The Undertaker], everyone knows… [The] Stalker [gimmick] was really bad for my profession,” he explained. “Bottom line is: it took me some time to let that go after which ‘Take is – Mark Calaway is- one in all the classiest cats you’ll ever meet, or get – you recognize – have the consideration to literally know and call him your friend.”
DDP then recalled bumping into The Undertaker during a show and the 2 of them having a transient interaction while recalling the angle. “He said: ‘I saw that Resurrection of Jake the Snake.’ He goes: ‘Wow, what you probably did for those guys? Big deal.’ I said ‘Thanks, bro, I appreciate that.’ And that opened the subsequent door,” he recalled, noting that by that time, he’d let go of all of the early bitterness about his profession and that all of it taught him an enormous lesson. “It taught me: don’t ever be afraid to walk away from the table.”
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