In a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet as part of the Insight With Chris Van Vliet podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page discussed several topics, including working with Lex Luger over the past several months, if Luger could walk again and more.
Highlights from the interview are below:
On working with Lex Luger: “When he saw the Butterbean video, we were both at Sting’s last match. I’m sitting there watching the monitor, and we’re the two guys who are WWE guys, basically said we’re going, you good with that? We’re not going to go on camera. And they were great. He rolled up next to me, and he goes, ‘Dally, I saw the Butterbean video, bro. I didn’t know you had chair workouts.’ I said, ‘Well, I didn’t have them back when you and I were working, I got them now.’ He goes, ‘Do you think maybe we could start?’ I’m like, ‘Dude, how many times have I asked you to start back up again? Absolutely, come over Monday.’ And we got met up after that and we’ve been working together, whenever Sting’s match was, that following Monday?”
Could Lex Luger walk again?: “I don’t know. I mean, I really don’t. There’s so much nerve damage in there. I really don’t know, but I do know that if it’s possible, Lex is gonna do it. There’s so many things I do in the chair workouts, even the bed. No one could tell me you can’t do DDP Yoga. It starts in bed. You can’t get out of bed? I got nine workouts for you in bed. Then sitting in a chair. That’s where I focus most of my things, chair and then getting him to stand up and then go back down and stand up and go back down. Standing is one thing. He can stand, but it’s for moments, that’s a huge deal. We’re going to put that video out soon to let people see that he can stand. It’s shaky, but it’s pretty amazing. And again, what I do is every time he works out, it’s a completely different workout. I’m adding, subtracting, changing, growing, and I’ve never done this before with anyone. So I’ve got our first workout. Do you know how many people are in chairs that aren’t paralyzed? There’s a lot. How many people are in those little scooters? There’s a lot and they’d like to be out of that. Well, you could start here because this guy was paralyzed and he’s got nerve damage, you can surely do what he did on day one. But every week, we’ll be on the app at some point, when we get to wherever we’re going to, it’ll all be in a sequence. So you could wherever you’re at start where he’s at.”
The full interview is available at this link.