WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page recently documented the work he is doing with Lex Luger and the progress he has made with the former WCW Champion.
DDP has helped many legends from the wrestling world in recent years thanks to his DDP Yoga program along with celebrities, military veterans and civilians with limited mobility. AEW star Chris Jericho has frequently touted Diamond Dallas Page’s program as being one of the keys to his longevity in the wrestling world and WWE stars AJ Styles and Drew McIntyre have also worked with the Hall of Famer.
In 2015, Page’s work with Jake Roberts was recorded as part of the critically acclaimed documentary The Resurrection of Jake The Snake, which saw DDP help Roberts battle addiction and ended with Roberts being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. As of March 2024, DDP has been working with wrestling legend Lex Luger, who has been paralysed since 2007 after suffering a spinal cord injury.
While speaking with Chris Van Vliet, DDP recalled seeing Lex Luger on the day he was hospitalised. Page stated that the former WCW Champion had hip replacement surgery and was able to briefly walk but has been confined to a wheelchair for the best part of 15 years:
“[He’s been in a wheelchair] 15 years. You know the craziest part about that? The day that he got paralyzed, I’m not sure exactly why it happened, but I have been wanting to see him because I’d heard he found God, and he had gone through this change. To be honest, I couldn’t believe it, because I know Lex, and I know when Sting got saved Lex would bury him. He loves Sting, but the God sh*t? He wasn’t buying it.
I know the good and the bad of Lex, and I still loved him through all of that. Once we became bros, we were tight as hell. But I hadn’t talked to him in a long time, and he had gone through a lot of things that had happened over that period. Eric Watts is the one who told me. He goes, ‘You gotta see Lex. You’re not gonna believe it.’ I go, ‘What do you mean?’ I go, ‘You hate Lex.’ He’s like, ‘No, I don’t.’ I go, ‘You wanted to beat his ass! You hated Lex!’ And he’s like, ‘You’re right, I did, but I don’t anymore, we’re roommates.’ What universe am I in? That’s how much Watts hated him.
He’s like, you gotta see this man. His belief in Christ and everything. It’s real. And I said, Man, I’m going to San Francisco next week. I can’t wait to see him. That was the night that Lex ended up going down and the promoter, who had just paid me said, I just got a call. Lex had some kind of heart attack or something. There’s EMTs in there. He didn’t know why, there was no heart attack, but when I ran to the room where he was at there’s Lex sitting in a chair.
I come up and I give him a hug. Are you okay? He goes, ‘I’m okay. Dally, I’m okay.’ He didn’t hug me or anything. I didn’t really realize. I wasn’t thinking at the time, but looking back, I know he didn’t. The EMTs are like, ‘Lex, you have to go to the hospital.’ [he said] ‘No hospitals.’ Lex didn’t have anything then. He didn’t want any more debt. He’s a very proud guy, and he didn’t want any of that.
I’m looking to him, and I know things that have happened to the boys when something like this happens, [I said] ‘You got to go to hospital, you got to go, bro.’ He goes ‘You think so, Dally?’ I’m like ‘bro, you got to go.’ And he goes, ‘Well, you know my hips are bad.’ I go, ‘I’ll help you.’ So an EMT got on one side, I got on the other, and we picked him up, laid him on a table, and they took him off.
The guys who were the EMTs, this is God’s work, they’re both humongous wrestling fans. They’re in freaking San Francisco, they’re in Cow Palace area. This is the hood. They go through all those towns to get to Stanford, which is one of the best hospitals that there is. And the nurse, when he gets there, her name is Charity. They end up taking him, I believe a couple of days first class. They have to wheel him in. I don’t know how the hell they got it all done, but they fly him into Atlanta, where he goes to the Shepherd Center, and his nurse is Hope, and he’s in, no bullsh*t, room 316.
So whatever is happening here, me and Steve [Borden] are there the next day, and by this time, he’s starting to get movement back in his fingers and his arms a little bit, no legs. Lex had a hospital that was going to give him new hips, but now he’s paralyzed. Somehow, Lex talks them into giving him new hips even though he has no movement, because his rationale was that if you get me moving, I won’t be able to walk anyway, because I couldn’t walk before.
They put the new hips in and over time, I’ve got video footage of me and Lex working together with Steve taking this from 14 years ago, maybe more than that, how many years ago it was. And then Lex finally gets up, and he starts eventually, because he’s so relentless, moving and walking with a crook thing, and then a cane, and then no cane, and then he hit a pothole, and he went down, and that’s where he was for the last X amount, whatever years it’s been.”
Continuing, DDP stated that he met up with Luger again in 2024 as they were both at AEW Revolution to watch Sting’s last match. When Luger asked Page if they could work together on his mobility, the two legends started the next day:
“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?”
Diamond Dallas Page Comments On If Lex Luger Could Walk Again
When DDP was asked if he believed that Luger could walk again, the Hall of Famer admitted that while he was unsure due to the extensive nerve damage, Luger is able to stand for a short period of time:
“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.”
In February 2025, a new video from DDP shows Lex Luger standing out of his wheelchair.
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