Podcast One presents the Steve Austin Show Classics.

Diamond Dallas Page, a self-made man, a guy who worked his ass off.

This show was always dedicated to the working man and the working woman out there.

And I wanted to focus specifically on a big part of Dallas's career.

And I know Dallas, it's a part of your career that you're very, very proud of.

It was feud of the year for 1997 with Randy Macho Man Savage.

And this is a guy who I always wanted to work with in a long extended program at a high level.

And that never happened. I did a J.O.B. for Randy

back in the day in Orlando when we were in WCW doing those TV tapings down there. And that just

was what it was. It was a quick job. But I had so much respect for the guy. You have been plowing

along. You've been gaining all this information from guys that helped you out from

Sarge, Buddy Lee Parker there in the school, Jody Hamilton, dropping some words of wisdom to you,

hooking up with Jake the Snake Roberts, who would help your in-ring style, your persona, your psychology,

your promo.

All of a sudden you plow forward.

It comes a time. You're going to get an opportunity to work with Randy Macho Man Savage.

How does this happen?

Because you've come up the hard way.

There's a lot of other players up there.

What made Randy say, I've got to work with this cat?

Well, it was coming off, you know, the whole thing, you know, it was really funny because me and you, we were both trying to be heels.

And people just wanted to fucking cheer for us, you know.

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