To top it all off, DDP jobs to Sara herself 24 hours after SummerSlam (courtesy of Taker/Kane interference in a No DQ match)! This is the last time we see DDP for two months.
To be fair though, DDP's career started hitting the tubes shortly after his first world title, as WCW booked him horribly as world champion. Here's DDP's runs as World Champion...
- Wins against Scott Steiner after interference from Kimberly
- Wins clean against Stevie Ray
- Match with Goldberg ends in a No Contest due to Nash interference
- Loses clean to Sting (Flair immediately books Sting vs. Goldberg @ Slamboree, completely ignoring DDP's rematch clause)
- Same night as Sting's title win, Nash reminds Flair that he had a title shot @ Slamboree, and challenges Sting/Goldy/DDP to a 4-way title match. DDP wins the belt back the same night he lost it.
- Wins against Bam Bam Bigelow after interference from Randy Savage
- Wins against Ric Flair after interference from Randy Savage
- Match with Kevin Nash ends in DQ after (you guessed it!) interference from Randy Savage. Bischoff restarts the match as No DQ and bans Savage from ringside. Nash wins title clean.
DDP would spend 11 months not being World champion, feuding with the likes of Benoit, Saturn, Ric and David Flair, Buff Bagwell, Kidman, Goldberg, and maybe a few others. He finally beats Jeff Jarrett in a cage match with help from Kanyon to become 3-time World Champion...
...only to job the belt to his tag team partner the next night. Who is David Arquette. And DDP is perfectly happy post-match, despite the fact that he just lost the world title to a bad actor.
In short, the magnum opus of DDP's career was his match with Goldberg at Halloween Havoc in 1998. Or hell, the ENTIRE year for 1998 (and 97). His feuds with Randy Savage and Raven were classics.
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