#1166 - Diamond Dallas Page

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Four, three, two, one. Mr. Page, how are you?

Diamond Dallas Page (0:11)

I never had a bad day of my life.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Ever?

Diamond Dallas Page (0:13)

Hell, I've had plenty of bad moments.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Bad moments, but you recovered.

Diamond Dallas Page (0:17)

Yeah, you know, to me, it's all your state of mind, period. And I don't stay there. If I go down, I get back up.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

If you're gonna chew that, people are gonna go fucking crazy. I put one of those in my mouth the other day and I got like 150 comments because I had a sore throat.

Diamond Dallas Page (0:34)

Well, I got the throat coat.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Listen, man, first of all, I love what you're doing.

I really do. I think it's fantastic. And I'm a big fan of yoga. And what you've done for not just what you've done is made yoga available to people that thought that yoga was for chicks.

Diamond Dallas Page (0:55)

Right.

And I, you know, now it's funny to say that because how it started, it was yoga for regular, it was regular people, you know, regular guys. I made it for guys.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

People think of yoga as being something that like you have to be into, you know, you got to be all namaste.

And you hear Dallas Diamond Page. What the fuck?

Diamond Dallas Page (1:14)

Or Diamond Dallas Page.

Joe Rogan (1:16)

But you, how, you know, you're this giant pro wrestler guy, like you're in yoga, and you're really, really into it. I mean, you've got your own system of yoga.

I mean, this is for something that I think is like very important for body maintenance and for keeping your spine healthy and mobility, which is one of the things that a lot of us ignore, especially big guys who like to lift weights and do a lot of crazy shit.

Diamond Dallas Page (1:42)

I was a meathead. I understand you. I'm the guy who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga the first 42 years of my life.

But I didn't start wrestling until I was 35

Joe Rogan (1:51)

Really?

Diamond Dallas Page (1:52)

Really. And my career didn't take off until I was 40

Joe Rogan (1:55)

How old are you now?

Diamond Dallas Page (1:56)

62

Joe Rogan (1:57)

Dude, if you folks saw what he just did with no warm up, no warm up, bent over, grabbed your ankles, fully flattened your body out, pressed your body up against your thighs, with no warm up, then he picks his ankle up and fully extends his leg over his head. That is incredibly impressive for a 20 year old person.

Diamond Dallas Page (2:17)

Well, it's all about staying ahead of it. You know, it's all about owning it.

Going back to just my career, I mean, my career took off in 96, which was I was 40 years old. 97 and 98, man, I was on top of the world, wrestling 270 days a year, every year.

And then I did The Tonight Show, Hollywood Squares, a movie called First Daughter was my first movie I did. So I mean, I was probably working 320 days a year. And the wear and tear on your body after a while, like, boom, I took a power slam from or a power bomb from Kevin Nash, Kevin's legit 6'10, long way down. And it wasn't that bump that blew my back out. It was all of it and being almost 43 years old. And when I ruptured my L4 and L5, and we have this amazing vertebrae, that is what allows us to do all this crazy shit that we do. What really allows us is those shock absorbers, those discs in between the vertebrae. Well, think of a jelly donut and slap that jelly donut and now there's nothing there. So I have no discs in between my L4 or L5. I was told by three different spine specialists, you're never going to wrestle again.

I just signed a multi-million dollar three-year deal. So the guy who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga would do anything to get back in a ring. And I was married at the time and she kind of bullied me into it. And once I started doing it, Joe, just like you know, I started to feel a difference. And I thought of thinking, wow.

Joe Rogan (3:56)

Now did you talk to any doctors that wanted to replace your discs or fuse your discs?

Diamond Dallas Page (4:01)

Two wanted to fuse them. One didn't. And his thing was...

1999

Joe Rogan (4:07)

So there wasn't any of those spacers that they have now?