Quoted from epichoff:What’s wrong with DDP man? He actually helped save Jake the snake‘s life. he’s pretty good in my book. You should check out the documentary resurrection of the snake.
Watched it and read countless other accounts of his post-wrestling career with DDP yoga, including the Scott Hall story. Amazing dude. But let’s focus on the wrestler - DDP.
Had no persona. In WCW, Jericho came out to a blatant rip-off of Evenflow, and at least it fit him. DDP with no real gimmick and a basic “older guy” (traditional, in a time of edginess) move set had the worst Smells Like Teen Spirit ripoff of a theme, and yet it didn’t fit him at all.
The Diamond Cutter was a shitty Stunner, the entrance was a joke, and besides the fact it’s easy to make a self high five, it didn’t mean anything and he overall was a boring (somehow) upper card wedge in the otherwise amazing “Good vs NWO” arc that made WCW must watch TV in the 90s.
But yeah, after he stopped underwhelming me on TV, he did some great things for ex wrestlers in his yoga program, and kudos for that. I just will never accept him for anything bigger than the limo driver at Wrestlemania for the Honky Tonk Man or whoever it was.