Diamond Dallas Page explains why he worked All In for free

At All IN, WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page aided Cody down to the ring for his NWA Worlds Heavyweight title match against Nick Aldis. The former WCW champion even performed a Diamond Cutter in front of the sold out Sears Centre.

Page usually doesn’t make appearances for wrestling companies outside of the WWE, but the former WCW champion had a special bond with the late and great Dusty Rhodes and speaking on WSVN-TV Entertainment with Reporter Chris Van Vliet, he elaborates on his reasoning for his presence at All In.

“Dusty used to always tell me ‘I got five friends D and every time I count them, you are one of them’ and that meant a lot to me. So when he passed, Cody called me and said Dusty, because he always calls him Dusty and not pops, he said ‘Dusty told me right before he passed that he had five friends and you’re on that list’. I appreciated that because I had heard it, but hearing it from him took it to a different level. So fast forward a year a half later and he’s putting together All In, he really loved that five friends thing. And three guys who couldn’t have been any closer besides me were Ray Lloyd who is Glacier and Tommy Dreamer. He of course threw in his brother-in-law Kevin who he loves dearly and his father-in-law Otis and of course his dog Pharaoh. It was like super special and it was super emotional. We were all looking at each other trying not to cry.”

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Being friends with the Rhodes family, Cody was able to convince him to do a Diamond Cutter during the match, which is a bump Page isn’t keen on taking outside of the WWE:

“When I first heard Cody was doing All In, I told him you know I don’t do Diamond Cutters anymore. I mean, if WWE calls me I’ll f_____g do a Diamond Cutter, but not for an independent wrestling company. I’ve been offered $10,000. I’m not hitting that mat anymore. But for Cody, I told him if you need me for anything, I said I’m there and I wouldn’t charge him nothing. I’m sure plenty of people got paid a lot of money to be there, I took nothing and I won’t take nothing from him.”

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• "The American Nightmare" Cody
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• All In
• DDP
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