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Page Joseph Falkinburg, Jr. (born April 5 1956) better known by his ring name "Diamond" Dallas Page (DDP) is a semi-retired American professional wrestler and actor. In the course of his wrestling career, which spanned two decades, Page has wrestled for World Championship Wrestling (WCW), World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
Page first broke into the wrestling business in 1988 as a manager in the American Wrestling Association where he worked there over a period of nine months before signing into WCW in 1991.
During his early months with WCW he remained a manager before he became a wrestler in late-1991. Page went on to have a remarkable stint as a WCW wrestler, where he became famous as "The People's Champion" and went on to become a three-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, a two-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion, a four-time WCW World Tag Team Champion and a WCW Television Champion.
After WCW was purchased by WWF in 2001, Page joined WWF where he achieved moderate success by winning both the WWF European Championship and the WWF World Tag Team Championship. He was later released from the company in 2002. He then worked for independent promotions and TNA Wrestling throughout 2004 to 2005.
Page now spends his time as an actor working on small-budget films in addition to being a fitness guru and motivational speaker.
Dallas Alexander Chancellor Page, born at Cheltenham on April 11, 1911 and died at Cirencester on September 2, 1936, was a cricketer who played for and captained Gloucestershire.
Page was a right-handed middle order batsman and a brilliant cover fieldsman, and played fairly regularly for Gloucestershire in County Championship matches in 1934, having made his debut the previous year. When the successful Beverley Lyon stood down from the captaincy after six seasons at the end of 1934, Page, as the only regular amateur player in the side, was picked to succeed him for 1935.
Page's first season as captain was not a success, and Wisden put some of the responsibility for a drop to 15th in the Championship on Page's inexperienced handling of a bowling attack that was in transition following the retirement of Charlie Parker. In 1936, however, Gloucestershire rise to fourth in the final table was also due in part, Wisden said, to Page's enthusiasm and team-building.
Page himself was a modest performer, with a career average of less than 20. He scored 1,000 runs in a season once only, in 1935, and made only one century.
He was killed in a car crash near his home at Cirencester while returning from the final match of the 1936 season, where he had led his side to victory over Nottinghamshire at the Wagon Works ground Gloucester, and had taken the catch that finished the match.



