Diamond Dallas Web page Talks WWE 2K24, Cody Rhodes, Dusty Rhodes, Extra in B/R Interview

After a five-year hiatus, WWE Corridor of Famer Diamond Dallas Web page is making his return to the WWE 2K online game collection, and it coincides with the rise of somebody who’s close to and pricey to him in WWE champion and WWE 2K24 cowl athlete Cody Rhodes.

On Nov. 13, DDP shall be obtainable as a playable character as a part of the WCW Pack, which is the fifth and last introduced DLC Pack for WWE 2K24.

Together with Web page, a number of different legendary wrestlers who made an impression in WCW shall be accessible through the WCW Pack, together with Lex Luger, The Nice Muta, “Mr. Good” Curt Hennig and The Iron Sheik.

In an interview with Bleacher Report, Web page acknowledged his pleasure over as soon as once more being a part of the WWE 2K collection, and mentioned what led to his elimination from and eventual return to the fold:

“Completely, and after I’m not in it, it pisses me off. I obtained taken out of that sport as a result of I helped some man, I can not bear in mind his title. He would go on to develop into this actually massive star. Oh, he is on the duvet of 2K24! I helped Cody when he left there. … He has every part to do with what’s taking place in skilled wrestling presently. Now that he is again and he is on prime of the world and he is on the duvet of the sport, 2K24, his dad [Dusty Rhodes] got here in, he hadn’t been in a sport in 4 years, and Diamond Dallas Web page is again the place he belongs, again with the WWE household.”

Amid his frustration over not having the ability to shake the Stardust character, Rhodes left WWE in 2016 and wager on himself by working for quite a few firms everywhere in the world. That led to his substantial hand within the creation of AEW, which helped him attain new ranges of stardom and finally led him again to WWE in 2022.

Web page mentioned his position in Rhodes’ success exterior of WWE and the place the journey has taken each them within the eight years since his WWE departure:

“I am proud to be working with them once more. I by no means needed to go wherever the primary time, however I had to assist the child whose father helped me. With out Dusty Rhodes there isn’t any Diamond Dallas Web page. I had to assist that younger man who was on his personal imaginative and prescient quest. He did not ask for my assist, I simply got here to him and stated, ‘Hey, allow us to begin filming you. Let’s begin doing stuff. Prices you nothing. Allow us to simply begin documenting your journey right here.’ And the place did it find yourself? Proper again within the WWE, larger than ever, on the duvet of 2K24. You’ll be able to’t make these things up.”

Ever since Rhodes resurfaced in WWE because the shock opponent for Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 38, he has been offered as one of many faces of the corporate, profitable two Royal Rumbles and headlining a pair of WrestleManias.

All of it led as much as him beating Roman Reigns in the principle occasion of WrestleMania 40 earlier this yr and ending his historic run as world champion after over 1,300 days.

DDP talked about the satisfaction he has in what Cody has achieved, particularly due to the highway he has taken to get there:

“There’s nothing that he does not do the best means, and that’s an instance for all these youngsters. You could not pay him to show heel proper now. For all the cash on this planet it would not be value it as a result of he is main the instance [for his daughter] Libby and in the event that they determine to have extra youngsters. He is main an unbelievable instance. He is the primary pure-bred babyface we have had in perpetually, and over humongously everywhere in the world. So yeah, actually pleased with him if you cannot inform.”

The respect and love between DDP and Rhodes is clearly mutual based mostly on a latest video The American Nightmare did for WWE 2K in anticipation of Web page’s addition to the online game:

Web page alluded to the video and divulged that he and Cody have strengthened their relationship after a time period the place they weren’t involved with one another:

“I gotta breathe on that one, gotta breathe. He simply did a factor about me going within the sport, he did just a little video, and sooner or later he stated, ‘I do not wanna get emotional,’ relating to speaking about DDP as a result of it may occur simply. And the identical means with me. It’s totally emotional. There was some extent the place me and him did not speak to one another for some time and it actually bothered me and him, however we obtained again collectively and stronger than ever. I am so pleased with him, every part that he is performed.”

DDP’s relationship with the Rhodes household dates again a long time to when he was in WCW and benefited from the mentorship of Dusty Rhodes, who was the largest star in NWA together with Ric Aptitude earlier than turning into the top of the reserving committee in NWA and WCW.

Web page known as Dusty “a mind” and “a visionary” along with his excellence as a showman, and he credited Dusty with taking him to the following degree, saying:

“I by no means have the run I had if he is nonetheless reserving by all of it. They put him out to pasture, WCW. What I imply by that’s they paid him to remain residence as a result of they did not need him to go to WWE, so I obtained to speak to him on a regular basis. We had been already tremendous tight, however as we went on this journey, I might name him.”

DDP recalled a dialog he and Dusty had by which Web page lamented the concept he would by no means be world champion. Rhodes scolded him and advised him to get out of the enterprise if he did not assume he might be world champion, which impressed Web page to set a objective.

On a notepad, DDP wrote that he would develop into world champion inside 5 years, and 4 years, 4 months and 14 years later, he gained a 4 corners match in opposition to Aptitude, “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan and Sting with “Macho Man” Randy Savage because the particular visitor referee to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship for the primary time at Spring Stampede 1999.

Even earlier than profitable the world title, Web page was a large a part of WCW’s success within the mid-to-late Nineteen Nineties together with Sting, the nWo and a number of other others.

DDP was one of the crucial over babyfaces in all {of professional} wrestling throughout the Monday Evening Conflict when WCW Nitro was constantly beating WWE Uncooked, and there was a time period when it appeared WWE is perhaps at risk of going out of enterprise.

Regardless of that, WWE rebounded and finally gained the warfare, and now it’s constantly paying homage to WCW legends like Web page, which is one thing he admitted that he by no means might have imagined within the thick of the Monday Evening Conflict:

“On the time, no, I’d by no means have believed that. I haven’t got the time as a lot to get out and do the autograph periods, however I simply did one in Rhode Island final weekend and it was slammed. The ages had been from little youngsters to individuals who had been my age of their 60’s that had been coming and simply eager to thank me for what I’ve performed post-wrestling [DDP Yoga], but in addition for my wrestling profession. … These youngsters who’re coming as much as us, by no means noticed us wrestle dwell, however possibly with their dad or their grandpa or their grandma, they watch. Due to WWE, they’ve the entire footage just about. … All the primary federations that got here up, they obtained ’em all. And the No. 1 factor that they spotlight, the Monday Evening Wars, Nitro in opposition to Uncooked.”

Final month, Web page and a number of other different WCW legends had been acknowledged and celebrated as particular company on the WWE Unhealthy Blood premium dwell occasion in Atlanta, which was the previous headquarters of WCW.

After attending the present, DDP praised WWE on social media and introduced that he had signed a brand new legends contract with the corporate:

Web page recommended WWE for the present regime’s therapy of legends, pointing to go of artistic Triple H and president Nick Khan as those that have spearheaded it:

“I am excited to be right here all the way in which round. It is not simply the sport, it is the entire thing. The way you’re handled there at a pay-per-view—and I have been to many over the previous few years—it is gotten higher and higher. And now, it is only a entire totally different respect degree for the legends due to Triple H. You gotta put all of it again to the man whose face is on it, him and Nick Khan, it is actually vital to them that these guys are appreciated. And that is all I believe anyone desires.”

The expansive legends roster in WWE 2K24 is simply one other instance of WWE honoring the previous, and the WCW Pack does exactly that with a number of Corridor of Famers in DDP, Muta, Hennig and Sheik, in addition to a legend in Luger who Web page hopes shall be inducted in 2025.

Likewise, Web page has an amazing appreciation for the current stars of wrestling equivalent to Rhodes, and those that obtain the WWE 2K24 WCW Pack could have the power to play out dream matches involving DDP, Cody and plenty of others.

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