Wrestling’s Diamond Dallas Page holding open house at Cobb yoga studio

Just because you’re not a World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Famer doesn’t mean yoga isn’t for you.

That’s what Diamond Dallas Page will tell you at the open house for his yoga studio in Cobb County on Saturday. He’s holding it to encourage health in the new year, a news release said. The center opened in 2015.

According to his WWE biography, Page — with his good-guy persona — went on to fight Hulk Hogan and the New World Order in his 14 years in the ring. He had unique matches against people like NBA legend Karl Malone and talk show host Jay Leno, in separate instances.

DDP’s finishing move was the Diamond Cutter.

But after a career-ending back injury in 1998, Page turned to yoga. He went on the ABC show “Shark Tank” and turned down an investment deal for his DDP Yoga program.

Page's website is full of former wrestlers and celebrities advocating for the yoga regiment, but one of his most dedicated disciples is Jake "The Snake" Roberts, who got his start in the early 1980s in Georgia Championship Wrestling, his WWE bio says.

The Snake would roll into the ring with a snake wrapped around him and deliver what is considered one of wrestling’s most brutal finishing moves — the DDT.

But those years of the body-punishing sport and drug addiction took a toll on Roberts, who found salvation from Page's yoga, which was chronicled in a documentary made about his recovery.

READ | Atlanta filmmaker follows long recovery of wrestler Jake the Snake

The program combines elements of yoga and traditional calisthenics, according to the news release.

Page will be at his DDP Yoga Performance Center, 1239 Concord Road in Smyrna, from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday.

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