There’s only one DDP and it ain’t Dricus Du Plessis
Dricus Du Plessis will challenge for the UFC middleweight title at UFC 297 on January 27. The 29-year-old South African will meet current champion Sean Strickland in the promotion’s first pay-per-view event of 2024.
The former Extreme Fighting Championship Middleweight and Welterweight Champion has not lost a fight since arriving in the UFC in 2020.
Du Plessis, who has holds the nickname “Stillknocks,” has recently been on the receiving end of the shortened name “DDP” (for obvious reasons).
But when fans hear the name “DDP,” are they thinking of Dricus Du Plessis or are they thinking of Diamond Dallas Page?
Page Joseph Falkinburg Jr., better known by his ring name Diamond Dallas Page (often shortened to DDP), is an American actor, Yoga Instructor, and retired professional wrestler.
In the course of his wrestling career Page has wrestled for mainstream wrestling promotions World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
Page first broke into the wrestling business in 1988, as a manager in the American Wrestling Association, where he worked for nine months before signing with WCW in 1991. There, he continued as a manager until late 1991, when he became a wrestler. Over a decade in WCW, Page became a three-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, two-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion, four-time WCW World Tag Team Champion and one-time WCW World Television Champion. He is the fourth WCW Triple Crown Champion, and the only United States Heavyweight Champion to defend the title in a pay-per-view main event, defeating Bret Hart at the 1998 World War 3.
After WCW was sold in 2001, Page signed with the WWF where he made his pay-per-view debut in the main event of July’s Invasion show and went on to become a one-time WWF European Champion and one-time WWF World Tag Team Champion. Due to a series of injuries, he allowed his contract with the company to expire in 2002. He worked for TNA from 2004 to 2005, challenging for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in the main event of Destination X 2005. On March 31, 2017, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Eric Bischoff. He is considered “one of the finest WCW legends in history.”
Since 2012, Page has run a mail order and online fitness video business called DDP Yoga, based on yoga and dynamic self-resistance.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is the true “DDP.”
