Page's first pro match occurred in May 1989 against Dick Slater.
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Page also worked as a color commentator in Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), soon renamed Professional Wrestling Federation (PWF), where he worked alongside Gordon Solie, before finally debuting as a professional wrestler. Professional Wrestling Federation (1989–1991) He worked for the AWA at 12 dates over a period of nine months, where they filmed all the television shows in one day. During his time in the AWA, Page also managed Colonel DeBeers, Curt Hennig and Madusa Miceli as the leader of the Diamond Exchange stable. Badd Company, was often accompanied by female valets known as the "Diamond Dolls" (Tonya, Jennifer and Torri).
He started managing in 1988, where he handled Badd Company ( Paul Diamond and Pat Tanaka), a team he led to the AWA World Tag Team Championship on March 19. Page ran a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida called "Norma Jeans" (known for its Pink Cadillac) while he was working as a wrestling manager in the American Wrestling Association (AWA).
Professional wrestling career American Wrestling Association (1988) ĭDP, Curt Hennig and Diamond Doll Tonya in 1988 He attended Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina briefly before leaving school to work full-time. He transferred to Point Pleasant Borough High School in Point Pleasant, where he was a star basketball player with the Point Pleasant Boro High School Panthers. Joseph's High School (now Donovan Catholic High School) in Toms River, New Jersey, for his freshman and second years, spending his first season on the JV basketball team and making the varsity squad as a sophomore. He had many challenges hit him throughout his childhood and educational years. Falkinburg admitted in his autobiography he is dyslexic. His father took him, at eight years old, to live with his grandmother, who raised him. Falkinburg lived with his father from age three to eight. His brother Rory and sister Sally were raised by their maternal grandmother. The name "Dallas" came from his love of the Dallas Cowboys. Falkinburg/Falkenburg is also the name of multiple German villages and at least three German castles. He stated that he is of German, Irish, and Dutch origin. He was raised by his father during his early years after his parents divorced. Page Joseph Falkinburg, the eldest of three children, was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, the son of Sylvia (née Seigel) and Page Falkinburg Sr. Since 2012, Page has run a mail order and online fitness video business called DDP Yoga, based on yoga and dynamic self-resistance. On March 31, 2017, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Eric Bischoff. He worked for TNA from 2004 to 2005, challenging for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in the main event of Destination X 2005.
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Due to a series of injuries, he allowed his contract with the company to expire in 2002. He is the fourth WCW Triple Crown Champion, and the only United States Heavyweight Champion to defend the title in a pay-per-view main event, defeating Bret Hart at the 1998 World War 3.Īfter WCW was sold in 2001, Page signed with the WWF where he made his pay-per-view debut in the main event of July's Invasion show, and went on to become a one-time WWF European Champion and one-time WWF World Tag Team Champion. Over a decade in WCW, Falkinburg became a three-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, two-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion, four-time WCW World Tag Team Champion and one-time WCW World Television Champion. There, he continued as a manager until late 1991, when he became a wrestler. In the course of his wrestling career, which spanned two decades, Page has wrestled for mainstream wrestling promotions World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and All Elite Wrestling (AEW).įalkinburg first broke into the wrestling business in 1988, as a manager in the American Wrestling Association, where he worked for nine months before signing with WCW in 1991. Dallas Page (born Page Joseph Falkinburg, April 5, 1956), better known by his ring name Diamond Dallas Page (often stylized as DDP), is an American actor, fitness instructor and former professional wrestler.