{"id":60727,"date":"2020-01-11T10:47:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T15:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=60727"},"modified":"2020-01-11T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T15:47:21","slug":"feel-the-bang-ddp-returns-for-1st-proper-match-since-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/01\/11\/feel-the-bang-ddp-returns-for-1st-proper-match-since-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel the Bang: DDP Returns For 1st Proper Match Since 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former 3x WCW World Heavyweight Champion <strong>Diamond Dallas Page<\/strong> is returning to the ring for his first proper match since 2011 after a confrontation with <strong>MJF<\/strong> turned physical on this past week&#8217;s edition of <strong>All Elite Wrestling (AEW)<\/strong> <em><strong>Dynamite<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AEW DYNAMITE ANNIVERSARY | WHAT DID THE LEGEND DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE HAVE TO SAY?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_SbsXqC-nIo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Following the gang attack from MJF and his mercenaries <strong>Wardlow<\/strong> and <strong>The Butcher &amp; The Blade<\/strong>, AEW made it official, announcing that MJF and Butcher &amp; The Blade would be in 6-man action against the trio of DDP, <strong>Dustin Rhodes<\/strong>, and <strong>QT Marshall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bash at the Beach at the Watsco Center is next week as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_MJF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@The_MJF<\/a>, The Butcher &amp; the Blade face @realmmarshall1, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dustinrhodes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@dustinrhodes<\/a> &amp; the returning <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealDDP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RealDDP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Get your tickets at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5WsWwyDkwZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/5WsWwyDkwZ<\/a> or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEWDynamite<\/a> LIVE every Wednesday on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tntdrama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TNTDrama<\/a> 8e\/7c. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWonTNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEWonTNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEWonTNT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AEWonTNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DieJRccEOd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/DieJRccEOd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW\/status\/1215303669836603398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For the WWE Hall of Famer, it marks his first proper return in a match since 2011, when he teamed with fellow former WCW World Champion <strong>Kevin Nash<\/strong> against <strong>The Rock N&#8217; Roll Express<\/strong> for <strong>Awesome Wrestling Entertainment (AWE)<\/strong> in Virginia in 2011. Before that, he competed in January of 2010 for <strong>Purks International Championship Wrestling (PICW)<\/strong> in Georgia, teaming with <strong>Air Paris<\/strong> (AJ Styles tag team partner in WCW). In 2005, he had a brief run with <strong>TNA\/IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1jxEQU9mwvc<\/p>\n<p>While his last proper match was in 2011 with AWE, he has returned to the WWE on two occasions since then. He was a surprise entrant in the 2015 <strong>Royal Rumble<\/strong> match and a year later, appeared in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at <em><strong>WrestleMania 32<\/strong><\/em> in Arlington, Texas. His last proper match with WWE was a loss to <strong>Hardcore Holly<\/strong> on an episode of <em><strong>SmackDown<\/strong><\/em> in April of 2002. DDP was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DDP discusses his surprise appearance at the Royal Rumble\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fBXY3FApm7Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can catch AEW Dynamite every Wednesday night at 8:00 pm Eastern, 6:00 pm Pacific on TNT and internationally on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fite.tv\/join\/aew-plus\/?v=1\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AEW Plus on Fite TV<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"InformationBoxRow\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former 3x WCW World Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page is returning to the ring for his first proper match since 2011 after a confrontation with MJF turned physical on this past week&#8217;s edition of All Elite Wrestling (AEW) Dynamite. Following the gang attack from MJF and his mercenaries Wardlow and The Butcher &amp; The Blade, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":60732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,2,6],"tags":[4133,5885,574],"class_list":["post-60727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-aew","tag-ddp","tag-diamond-dallas-page"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}