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Diamond Dallas Page Didn’t Tell Anyone About WrestleMania 32 Appearance

May 27, 2016 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas

– Diamond Dallas Page spoke with Wrestling Inc about his WrestleMania 32 appearance. Some highlights are below:

On his surprise appearance at WrestleMania 32: “The only person who knew was my buddy was taking me to the arena and my wife. I didn’t tell Jake, I didn’t tell Scott. They liked to have everybody there at 12 o’clock. I wasn’t going to be done (with his DDP Yoga Workshop) at 12 o’clock. About three months before, I got a call from Mark Carrano. He booked me, Jake and Scott. He said ‘if you get any other bookings, just talk to us before you book it. No worries. They fly you in first class, put you up in five star hotel. If they need me, I’m there.”

On being called by Carrano for the gig: “He said ‘Vince came up with the idea of throwing in a celebrity and two legends Royal Rumble style.’ They had a list of twelve names, and Vince picked Tatanka and me. I still didn’t know who the celebrity was going to be, but I didn’t care. Two days before my 60th birthday…and now I’m actually going to get to work right before the main event.”

On Shaq appearing at the event: “I saw Shaq and I said, ‘Okay, this all makes sense.’ First time we went through it, Shaq took a bump like BOOM! We were like ‘Shaq are you alright!? Don’t do that!’ And he was like ‘no I’m alright.’ You could tell how excited he was based on how fast he ran to the ring.”