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Diamond Dallas Page

Height: 6'5"
Weight: 253 lbs
Hometown: Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey
Birthday: April 5
Pro Debut: 1991
Signature Maneuver: Diamond-Cutter

Feel the Bang! Diamond Dallas Page (DDP), the people's champion, has enjoyed an incredible ride to wrestling stardom. He has teamed with Jay Leno, won two WCW World Heavyweight Championships, starred in the Warner Bros. movie "Ready To Rumble," wrote his own book "Positively Page" and even married Kimberly, the original Nitro Girl!

Career History
Against all odds DDP went from a Florida nightclub owner to a manager in the Minnesota-based AWA federation... Assisted early in his career by the "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes and Captain Lou Albano... After managing, he became a WCW color commentator... Trained at the WCW Power Plant to be a wrestler... Switched his persona from jewelry-wearing, cigar-smoking wrestling rogue to the people's champion... Won two WCW World Heavyweight titles and two WCW U.S. belts... Earned a WCW Tag Team championship with Triad members Kanyon and Bam Bam Bigelow... Has had tremendous feuds with Goldberg, "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Ric Flair... Has been tag team partners with Karl Malone and Jay Leno... Fought Dennis Rodman in tag team competition... Named 1999 "Wrestler of the Year" by WOW magazine... Left WCW following The Great American Bash in June, following betrayals by his wife Kimberly and his best friends in the business, Eric Bischoff and Kanyon.

Wrestling Style
Page is all about hard work, determination, perseverance and ambition... An anomaly of success spawned from a Trojan work ethic, encyclopedic wrestling knowledge and unshakable confidence... Always thirsting to improve, Page videotapes all his matches to critique each move... Paved the way to glory with his patented "Diamond Cutter," one of the most devastating finishing moves in wrestling... Pours himself into each match... Flashes Diamond Cutter sign and shouts "Bang!"... After a tough wrestling tour, Page heals the bumps and bruises by visiting his chiropractor, kinesiologist and deep massage therapist.

Did You Know?
Grew up in Point Pleasant, New Jersey... Played football and basketball in high school... Shot college hoops at Stockton State, Ocean County College and Coastal Carolina... Currently resides in Marietta, Georgia... His wife, Kimberly, a dark-eyed, statuesque brunette, has a masters degree in advertising from Northwestern and an undergraduate degree from Auburn... She competed in fitness competitions, started the Nitro Girls and has been featured in "Playboy"... DDP draws motivation from Muhammad Ali and Satchel Page... Favorite football team is the Dallas Cowboys... Enjoys snow skiing... Owns a custom-made motorcycle... Sponsors his own charity, "Bang It Out For Books," which helps fight illiteracy and promote the benefits of reading with Scholastic America... Overcame dyslexia to conquer his fear of reading as a child... Wrote his own autobiography "Positively Page"... Has his own website at DDPbang.com... Appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee," "Hollywood Squares" and "The Late Show with Craig Kilborn"... Played a feature role in the TBS Superstation movie "First Daughter," which drew basic cables largest movie audience of all time... Plays a lead role in the Warner Bros. movie "Ready To Rumble" with David Arquette, Oliver Platt and Scott Caan... Good friends with Bon Jovi and Karl Malone... Enjoys the music of Bruce Springsteen... As Page says. "You love me, you hate me, you'll never forget me."

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