Eric: WWE.com just started a new feature called classic feuds. The very first one they spotlighted was your feud with Randy Savage. What do you remember most about that feud?
Dallas Page: Gosh, so much. The first is that Randy wanted to work with me. Back in those days, Randy had the same deal that Hulk did and he had control of his creativity. Whatever Randy was doing, he controlled. He asked to work with me which was a huge compliment.

I was hot back then and Randy was smart. He wanted to attach himself to someone that had something hot going, which was the Diamond Cutter for me.

If you watch the video on Youtube, Diamond Cutters on Everyone, watch the crowd jump up to their feet. It starts off slow and then builds up. By half-way through that video, people are jumping up as I go up to hit the move. People are coming out of their seats. If you watch the video, there are like 50 different Diamond Cutters, see who I hit those on. They were enhancement guys. Back then, the bookers didn't really see me as a top guy so they were only letting me beat guys that didn't mean anything. So what I did was go out there and let them look great and then bang, hit the move. So any negative that happens to you, you can turn it into a positive if you look for it.

Eric: During the Monday Night Wars, you never left WCW. I was always curious if WWE tried to recruit you during that time.

Dallas Page: I wouldn't say try to recruit me because they couldn't do that at the time legally.

But [Steve] Austin had told me at one point that if I had wanted to come in that they would have given me the red carpet treatment up there. I wish I would have gotten that when I actually went there.

Eric: At what point did you realize that WCW reached the point of no return and was going to go out of business?

Dallas Page: I never thought that was going to happen. At the time, it was the number one show on Ted Turner's networks. I never thought it was going to go that way. I thought they'd modify pays and stuff like that to get back on track.

The last month we were on TV, the ratings for Nitro were anywhere between a 3.6 and 4.4. Vince [McMahon] rarely gets those ratings today. Now there is no competition. The point is that it was Jamie Kellner coming in there from Warner Brothers, and saying we ain't going to be a 'rassling network anymore.

I mean that Bischoff was buying the company. It was bought. He didn't want a deal where he would stay on their networks for 10 more years. He told Brad Siegel that he was willing to take it to another network. You know, with all the stars he had, Eric, if he could have taken that show somewhere else, WCW would still be around. But Jamie Kellner said no, we're canceling it just like they would cancel any other program. But there was a lot of overhead that came along with canceling this program, a lot. They still had to pay a bunch of guaranteed contracts. It wasn't like WCW went away, it was one guy that made that decision, Jamie Kellner. If Ted Turner was in charge of his own company at the time, it never would have happened.

It was wrong because it cost a lot of people there jobs. Now I knew that I wasn't going to be one of them but I was upset for the grip, the guy that set the ring up, the lighting crew, a lot of people lost their jobs because of that move. It didn't have to be like that. All Kellner had to do was tell Bischoff he had two months to sell the program somewhere else and he could have sold it in a heartbeat.

Eric: The question I am asked most by readers is about becoming a wrestler. What advice do you have for any of my readers that are interested in becoming a wrestler?

Dallas Page: There are quite a lot of independent promoters throughout the country. Well, that's where you start. Anyone that says I love wrestling and I want to do it more than anything, I never say to them no because maybe that guy will get into the gym and work harder, grow his hair out, or get some tats, or whatever it is that can make him unique. But before you do all of that, and there are so many kids out there that have their finishing move and name wondering where to go, that I'll say dude you have no idea of what you need to do.

I'll say: “Dude, are you willing to live in your car?” And they're like: “What?”. And then I'll say: “Are you willing to drive 200 – 500 miles to a gig for just $25.” That's what guys have to do to make it and many guys have that story.

I always think of Christian and Edge. Both of them got some really awesome stories about living the dream like that. Never knowing if they would get out of the independent scene but they loved it.

Would you be happy just working the independent scene because 99.9% of the time, that is just how far you are going to go. So if they're into that and they just want to perform in front of people and they can't live without it, I would suggest getting an education because if you get into right out of high school, you'll have nothing to fall back on.

Get your education first and then once you've got that, you want to try for that dream then get your a** in the gym, get yourself doing my DDP Yoga, bottom line is I've got 20 guys doing it because it's like the fountain of youth and when you're beating up your body, you've got to find something that takes the beating away so to speak.

Then get with one of those promoters and offer to set up the ring for free. Maybe someone will then teach you a little bit and then after some time you'll be one of the boys and get booked on that promotion and then you've got to start looking for the next step. Where are some of the places where I can go where the guys are a little bit better? If your serious, the best your going to get is by competing against the best competition. That's how you do it. It's a long road to tow that most people will never do.

They do tryouts at FCW, the developmental league for the WWE. Try for that. Booker T has got a school in Houston. Lance Storm's got a school in Alberta. At both of those, you're going to get some pretty good training at from guys that were great wrestlers.

Eric: Is there anything else you would like my readers to know?

Dallas Page: I have the very first video alarm clock app which is going to come out. You set your alarm for something like 8:00 AM and then you hear the “Ring..Ring” and then I come up on your phone and I'll yell “Yo Monkey. Get out of bed.” or “Don't make me come in there”. It's going to be pretty funny. It's also going to have inspirational stuff as well. I just finished that and they are developing it right now and that will be the first video alarm clock which will be really cool.