Diamond Dallas Page has faith in Lex Luger.
Diamond Dallas Page has helped numerous wrestlers through physical recoveries with the help of his DDP Yoga program. Now, Lex Luger is working with his old WCW pal in hopes of increasing his mobility. Luger has been confined to a wheelchair since suffering nerve damage in his neck that led to temporary paralysis.
DDP spoke about Luger during a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet, noting that Luger was inspired to begin doing the DDP Yoga chair workouts after watching Page's work with Butterbean.
“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. They were great," he said. "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.’ We met up after that and we’ve been working together, whenever Sting’s match was, that following Monday?”
As for whether or not Dallas thinks Lex Luger will ever be able to walk again, he isn't sure. However, he has faith in his friend's ability to overcome. Page also says he will soon be sharing a video with Luger showing off his ability to stand in brief increments at a 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," he said. "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. 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," he continued. "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.”
Lex Luger has stated that he would like to be able to stand on stage for his WWE Hall of Fame induction, just should that day come. Learn more here.
Thanks to Chris Van Vliet and his team for sending the above quote.
