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'The Snake' Roberts to move in with Diamond Dallas Page, train for one last pro
wrestling run - 28th October 2012
(Newsday.com) Former
WCW World Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page has worked with several pro
wrestlers on their aches and pains via his DDP Yoga system. But
Monday he begins perhaps his biggest challenge when Jake “The Snake”
Roberts moves in with Page in a home Page recently bought in Atlanta. Roberts,
whose wrestling career was derailed multiple times by substance abuse issues,
will train with Page while cameras roll for a planned documentary. The idea is
to get Roberts, 57, back in good enough shape for one more run in the wrestling
business. Page,
56, told newsday.com Sunday that he called Roberts -- whose weight had ballooned
up to 302 pounds -- in Roberts’ hometown of Gainesville, Texas three months
ago. TWITTER:
@JoshNASCARWWE “And
I told him, ‘If you can really do this -- and you have to prove it to me
[by doing the program] for six or eight weeks,” Page said. “‘I’ll
freakin’ get a place in Atlanta. I’ll bring you up, and we’ll continue
this journey.’” Roberts
was filmed in Texas when he started the yoga program, which Page developed to
deal with the injuries he suffered while in the squared circle. Page said that
Roberts lost 20 pounds in the first 3 ½ weeks of training and is now down
approximately 35 pounds. “Jake
does not want to be seen the way he was seen at the end,” Page said. Roberts’
demons have been chronicled in the 1999 Barry Blaustein documentary “Beyond
the Mat” -- which included Roberts interviewed in a hotel room after apparently
smoking crack -- and the 2005 WWE-produced DVD “Jake ‘The Snake’
Roberts: Pick Your Poison.” Roberts’ attempts to clean up includes a
1996 return to a WWE after a three-plus year hiatus in which his real-life born-again
Christian convictions were incorporated into his storylines. Along
with the physical training, Page and filmmaker Steve Yu wil work on things like
getting the computer-deficient Roberts up to date on using Facebook and Twitter.
Page says the idea is to keep Roberts busy with positive activities so he won’t
backslide into past habits. “That
house, I reached out to a couple of my friends, and asked, ‘What are we going
to call my new crib?’ And we came up with ‘Accountability Crib,’
you’re accountable for everything.” To
that end, Page and Yu said that Roberts will be drug-tested while he’s in
the home. “If
he does that [stuff] one time while he’s with me, he’s gone,” Page
said. But
Page is encouraged by what Roberts has already accomplished, losing as much weight
as he has after having being so out of shape in his first workout he couldn’t
do more than a couple of exercises without needing rest. “Bottom
line is, everybody wants the comeback story,” Page said. “Everybody
wants to see Jake look good, and feel good, and not be a mess anymore. That would
be great. I think there are a lot of really positive things that can come out
of this if Jake really does it.” Check
back to newsday.com in the coming days for additional coverage. | 
