WWE Hall of Famer D-Von Dudley has revealed the incredible story behind his recent physical transformation, detailing an 85-pound weight loss and a remarkable recovery from debilitating back issues. Speaking on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet, the legendary tag team specialist credited Diamond Dallas Page and his DDPY program, along with a complete diet overhaul, for giving him his mobility and quality of life back.
D-Von explained that even after undergoing major back surgery, he was still in constant pain and struggling to walk. “I was almost 300 pounds,” he said. “Everything was tight. I couldn’t walk barely. I was walking with a limp… it got to the point where I couldn’t even go out with the family without hanging on to something.”
A Desperate Call to DDP
After seeing the success others like Scott Hall, Jake Roberts, and Butterbean had with DDP, D-Von decided to make the call. “I said, ‘Dallas, I’m in trouble. My back, the back surgery was supposed to make me walk straight, make me do things, and it’s just not doing it,'” he recounted. Page sent him the DDPY program and also recommended he watch two documentaries on food, which D-Von said was a complete eye-opener.
“I watched it and realized just how bad food is nowadays, how we think what we’re doing is healthy, but it’s not,” he explained. “All this stuff leading to cancer, autism… Alzheimer’s.” He immediately made drastic changes to his diet. “I cut out so much stuff, wheat, dairy products, fried foods. I don’t eat it no more… everything has to be organic or grass-fed.”
D-Von Dudley lost 85 pounds with help from Diamond Dallas Page. More: https://t.co/yMPMEHv2fS pic.twitter.com/mSlF0snYMB
— Wrestling News (@WrestlingNewsCo) July 22, 2025
Breaking Down the Scar Tissue
The combination of the new diet and DDP’s yoga program produced almost immediate results. “DDPY has been one of the greatest things I had ever done,” D-Von stated. “It got to the point where even after the first two to three weeks, I was able to walk. The scar tissue in the body had loosened up everything. And that’s really what it was. It was the scar tissue building up on scar tissue… when that scar tissue is created… it’s hard to move.”
He explained how the program specifically targets this issue. “He helped me to learn how to break all of that down and to get rid of it, and not to have scar tissue build on top of scar tissue,” he said. The results have been so profound that he was recently able to swim properly for the first time since his surgery. The transformation has left D-Von looking and feeling like he did decades ago.
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article please credit Chris Van Vliet with a h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
