When it comes to the power of positivity for pro wrestlers, post-career, two names come to mind: Diamond Dallas Page and Marc Mero.
Most wrestling fans are aware of DDP Yoga, which has helped countless wrestlers and everyday individuals. Men like Scott Hall, Jake Roberts, Buff Bagwell and others worked with Diamond Dallas Page and the results were miraculous. Page has proven to be just as important to pro wrestling after his career, as he was during it.
Marc Mero, too, is using his notoriety to offer some good to the world. After his own career, which spanned WCW, WWF, Japan, and more, Mero traded in the earrings, the shorts and the boxing gloves for a microphone and he became a motivational speaker. Both Mero and Page are cut from the same cloth and Mero said that DDP, perhaps because of their positive kinship, is one of his favorite opponents. That's what he told Fightful Overbooked In The Weeds co-hosts, Jeremy Lambert and SP3 during a recent interview.
The feud with Dallas was so much fun. He’s one of my closest friends. We’ve known each other for 30 years and the feud we had in WCW was fantastic. We usually had the opening match on the pay-per-view and our thoughts were always, ‘Let’s steal the show. Let’s have the best match on the card.’ We would go to the Power Plant and work on our match and moves. We both became very improved. I was one of the most improved wrestlers in Pro Wrestling Illustrated and he was one of the best. We would really challenge each other inside the ring and outside the ring. I beat him for the money, I beat him for the girl, I beat him for the title. Our running joke is that -- there are three guys I’ve probably wrestled more than anyone else in my whole career: Diamond Dallas Page, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Triple H. The joke we have with Dallas is that he never got to beat me. It wasn’t in the card for him to win one match in all that we had. People just see the pay-per-view or television matches, they don’t realize we’re wrestling each other almost every single night on the road across the world. We had a lot of fun. When he was finally going to beat me on pay-per-view, I signed my contract with WWE and left. Unfortunately, he’s still looking for that pinfall over me," Mero said.
DDP may be looking for a while. To read about Mero's partnership and feud with his ex-wife, Sable, click here. To read about the origins of his Johnny B. Badd character, click here. Fans can follow Mero on social media.
Check out the full interview with Marc embedded above.
