During the latest episode of the DDP Snake Pit podcast, David Crockett would recall WCW taking a look at The Rock before he signed with the then WWF. Regarding the possibility of The Rock in WCW, Crockett said:
“He came to WCW for a little while, he didn’t wrestle for us. No one wanted to look at him.”
Later on in the show, DDP would recall The Big Show (Paul Wight) introducing him to The Rock at WrestleMania X8, and how it led to a joke between Page and Rock over “The People’s Champion” nickname:
“Big Show says, ‘do you want to meet The Rock?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I’d love to meet the guy. Jake (Roberts) really put him over, I’d like to meet the guy’. We go in there, we go in the locker room, and Big Show, and those ones in Canada, where the Skydome is, you know they’re huge huge locker room. And no one is there and Big Show goes, ‘Rock, you still here?’ ‘Yeah, I’m in the shower’. He goes, ‘good, I’ve got a huge mark dying to meet you.’
“And now I’m leaving and I’m almost to the door, and all of a sudden I hear, ‘Hey Diamond’. And Big Show moves out of the way and I can see The Rock, you know he’s got that mullet, sideburns, he’s putting on one of his $1,500 Versace shirts. I can see him rolling in character, right? He goes, ‘You know Diamond, there’s only one People’s Champion’. And Big Show’s like, ‘Ohhhh’, and I just deadpanned him and go, ‘You know Rock, you’re right. And you – well, you’re looking at him.’”
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