I found out the night of the PPV. Nash and Hogan were actually booking then. Hulk was more behind the scenes but behind everything. They pulled me into the booking office and told me. I don't think it sank in right away because I didn't really sell it. The way I remember it...they told me and said we'll talk about it later. What really sticks out in my mind was after the match...after Rick took my finish and I actually had the world title in my hands, I walked into our dressing room, and Hulk was sitting there. His knee braces on the ground... he had actually booked me putting him out of the match with Bret Hart's infamous figure 4 on the turnbuckle post, so we could set up an angle down the road when he came back. When I walked through the door I'll never forget Hulk looking up at me...and he said something like... "This is the way our business is supposed to be. That someone like you could work so hard that you silence the critics and skeptics and could raise yourself to the level of main event world champion."

It choked me up so much I'm sure a tear or two came down, and he gave me a hug and said I'm proud of ya. Now that was a moment.

First of all, you made me laugh out loud when I read the first part of your question. Kudos to you bro!

I have many favorite matches.

1, becoming the world champion in a 4 way dance with Sting, Hogan and Flair and Savage as the special referee.

The nature boy taking the diamond cutter in the middle of the ring for the win, it proves if you believe in yourself and you work harder than anyone, anything is possible.

2 My feud with Savage - pick a match, they were all phenomenal ... the first one will always be my favorite though. Randy was amazing and laid all his stuff in snug..but so did I. Randy controlled his own booking just like Hulk, so for Randy Savage to put me over in the middle with the Diamond Cutter in 1997, it made me not only a top guy, but a main event PPV draw, which was mind boggling to me at the time. I'm very thankful for everything he did for me. If you want to see a great tribute look it up on my YouTube channel under DDP's Savage Tribute.

No, that's about right bro

Oliver Platt, who played Jimmy King HATED that we called his suit the fat suit... the one that Kanyon wore while doing all the stunts.

Kanyon was 240 and Jimmy King was 300 EASY.

Also, when the boys came off on the 4 corner splash and while they were kicking Jimmy King they were laying it in pretty stiff. Let's call it a welcome to the business to the "fake" actor. Ha ha!

Ha! ha! Ha! You made me LOL again... here's a great story about that song. I was on MTV as a guest, right after Dave Groll and the blond haired dude were interviewed then I came out. I talked about the PPV I had coming up and my buddies from Stuck Mojo.. the lead guitar player Rich who also is partners with Jericho with Fozzy, this was a huge break for Stuck Mojo. Toward the end of the interview, Raven came out of nowhere behind me on the couch and hit me with a stop sign over the head. I'm not talking about one of those big ass stop signs that don't hurt, I'm talking about one that was half the size and hard as hell. When he hit me on head it startled Groll so badly he jumped in the blonde guys lap. Raven came out and DDTed me through the table. Later, we all watched the footage, including Raven. We all laughed hysterically including Dave Groll as he jumped out of his seat onto his buddy's lap. They never said a thing about using their song.

I loved that song as my entrance music and thought it defined an era in time. One of the smartest things I did was have Jimmy Hart retool that so it was off by just one note. When I hear that song today it brings back great memories... how could it not?!