WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page was one of WCW’s biggest stars to make the jump over to WWE just months after Vince McMahon famously bought his competition in the spring of 2001. Rather than emerge in WWE under his flamboyant ‘People’s Champion’ persona, DDP instead debuted as the stalker of The Undertaker’s then-wife Sara.
This instantly put DDP on a collision course with The Deadman and the two men faced off in a Street Fight on the 9th of July 2001 edition of Raw that went to a no contest. At SummerSlam 2001, the feud was brought to an end in a Steel Cage match with The Undertaker teaming with Kane to defeat DDP and Kanyon in a ‘winner-take-all’ match for the WWE and WCW Tag Team Championships.
How DDP Fell Foul Of The Undertaker
Speaking on the Keepin’ It 100 podcast, former WCW performer Disco Inferno detailed how DDP got in trouble with The Undertaker after not listening to advice from Triple H:
“He went to WWE and he was going to be wrestling with ‘Taker and he had the match written out on paper. Hunter told him, ‘do not show that to ‘Taker,’ [he] showed it to ‘Taker anyway. And the famous story is ‘Taker saw it, crumpled it up, and threw it in the garbage. Because like, these old school guys weren’t like wanted their match written down top to bottom, you know, and Page didn’t get that.”
The Undertaker competed in his last WWE match back at WrestleMania 36 when he faced off with AJ Styles in a cinematic Boneyard Match. The Deadman came out the victor and he symbolically rode off into the sunset of his iconic wrestling career.
He received a send-off at the 2020 Survivor Series which marked his 30 year anniversary as a key part of WWE. Then in 2022 ahead of WrestleMania 38 in his home state of Texas, The Undertaker was honored with an induction into the WWE Hall of Fame. He also received an even rarer honour from WWE as he received his very own bronze statue.