Diamond Exchange The Diamond Exchange was a professional wrestling stable led by Diamond Dallas Page in American Wrestling Association , and in World Championship Wrestling where it was called the Diamond Mine . History . Diamond Exchange ( AWA ) . Diamond Dallas Page worked in the nightclub business in Florida before and after he started working as a wrestling manager in the American Wrestling Association ( AWA ) . He started managing Badd Company ( Paul Diamond and Pat Tanaka ) in 1988 , a team he lead to the AWA World Tag Team Championship . Badd Company , was often accompanied by a pair of female valets known as the Diamond Dolls . The team ' s first feud was against The Midnight Rockers , whom they defeated for the AWA World Tag Team Championship on March 19 , 1988 . Badd Company then feuded heavily with Chavo and Mando Guerrero . When the AWA World Heavyweight Champion Curt Hennig began being associated with the AWA World Women ' s Champion Madusa Miceli , they joined together the Diamond Exchange . Hennig would hold the AWA World Heavyweight Title for about 53 weeks , before losing it to Jerry Lawler on May 9 , 1988 . On August 27 , 1988 , DDP introduced Col . DeBeers as the new member of his stable . During that short time , DeBeers would try to force his opponent to leave on a stretcher . As many other promising - yet - underexposed AWA stars had before him ( including Hulk Hogan , Rick Martel , and Bobby Heenan ) , Henning left the AWA for World Wrestling Entertainment ( then called the World Wrestling Federation ) in the fall of 1988 , weeks after his AWA Title reign ended . Badd Company and Madusa faced the team of the Top Guns ( Ricky Rice and Derrick Dukes ) and Wendi Richter at the only AWA pay - per - view SuperClash III on December 13 , 1988 . Both Badd Company ’ s Tag - Team Title and Wendi Richter ’ s AWA World Women ' s Championship were on the line , but since Richter pinned Miceli , Badd Company remained the champions . In 1988 , Madusa was also the first woman to be awarded " Pro Wrestling Illustrated " ' s Rookie of the Year . Badd Company held the AWA Tag Team titles for a year before losing the titles on March 25 , 1989 to “ the Olympians " ( Brad Rheingans and Ken Patera ) . Shortly after their loss , they split from Page and had a short feud against each other before wrestling in singles competition until early 1990 . At the time , DDP also worked as a color commentator in Florida Championship Wrestling ( FCW ) where he worked alongside Gordon Solie , before finally debuting as a professional wrestler . In 1990 , Page received a tryout with the WWF as an announcer , but never got the job . When FCW went down , Page was still involved in the club business until Dusty Rhodes returned to World Championship Wrestling . WCW started booking and brought Page in on a small contract in early 1991 . The Diamond Mine ( WCW ) . DDP came to the World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) in 1991 as manager of the Fabulous Freebirds ( Jimmy Garvin and Michael P . S . Hayes ) . Page managed the Freebirds to a shot at the NWA World Tag Team Championship where they defeated Doom ( Butch Reed and Ron Simmons ) on February 24 . During this match , DDP introduced the Diamond Dolls in WCW . Page also worked as a color commentator for WCW with Eric Bischoff . When Scott Hall , the former tag team partener and former co - holder of the AWA World Tag Team Championship with Curt Hennig , made his return to the WCW in 1991 , DDP added him to his stable . Hall was named the Diamond Studd , whose gimmick was similar to Ravishing Rick Rude ' s with the added element of a monster big man heel . He squashed Tommy Rich in his debut on the June 14 edition of " " , and he defeated Tom Zenk at The Great American Bash . Hall received a significant push in his early days with WCW , but by the end of 1991 this began to fade , starting with the September 2 edition of " " , where Studd was defeated by Ron Simmons . At Halloween Havoc : Chamber of Horrors , the team of Studd , Abdullah the Butcher , Cactus Jack , and Big Van Vader lost to Sting , El Gigante , and the Steiner Brothers ( Rick and Scott ) . On the November 19 edition of " Clash of the Champions " , Studd lost to Zenk in a rematch from The Great American Bash . With rumors that the WCW wanted to take the Diamond Studd away from him , DDP decided to take the advice of Magnum T . A . and begin to wrestle himself . He headed to the WCW Power Plant where Buddy Lee Parker , The Assassin , and Dusty Rhodes trained the 35 year old rookie . He debuted as a wrestler in a tag team match later that year . With the Diamond Studd , he faced Kevin Sullivan and his partner . He was relegated to the " jobber " list . He made his wrestling pay - per - view debut at Starrcade in 1991 , teaming with Mike Graham in a losing effort to Jushin Liger and Bill Kazmaier . Page continued wrestling and brought other wrestlers into his stable , such as Scotty Flamingo ( who later became better known as Raven ) and Vinnie Vegas ( Kevin Nash ) in 1992 . The relationships between DDP , Flamingo , and Vegas were used in many angles over the following months . Page went in the corner of Scotty Flamingo , at " Clash of the Champions XXI " on November 18 , 1992 , when Flamingo fought Johnny B . Badd in a worked boxing match . Flamingo won this bout with a little help from Page and Vinnie Vegas who filled Flamingo ' s glove with water . Studd formed short - lived tag teams with Vinnie Vegas and Scotty Flamingo , while also teaming with members of Paul E . Dangerously ' s Dangerous Alliance , a stable thad also included Madusa . The idea of adding him to the Dangerous alliance fell through , however , and he left WCW shortly after . The following year , after Scotty Flamingo also left the stable , Page teamed with Vinnie Vegas as the Vegas Connection . The Vegas Connection never returned to WCW until 2001 under the name " The Insiders " , because Page was fired from WCW shortly after the team ' s debut due to his torn rotator cuff . The injury occurred in late 1992 in a tag match with Tex Slazenger and Shanghai Pierce ( later known as The Godwinns ) . The Diamond Dolls . The Diamond Dolls were the professional wrestling valets that accompanied Diamond Dallas Page to the ring in the American Wrestling Association and World Championship Wrestling . When DDP was signed to appear as a manager in the AWA in 1987 , he wanted to be over the top . So Page decided to bring along some " Diamond Dolls " , pretty women who accompanied him to the ring . They would clean his rings and brush dirt off his coat and strut around the ring to distract his wrestlers ' opponents . They were basically there to look good and give his wrestlers an edge . Page ' s Diamond Dolls in the AWA were waitresses from his bar in Florida . They were Tonya G . ( real name Tanya ) , Lee Ann and Wendy . Page claimed to have dated all of them and he says he did date Lee Ann in his biography , " Positively Page " . Tonya G . was the one that was always there . Page rarely had them all there at one time . When Page arrived in WCW as the manager of The Diamond Studd and The Fabulous Freebirds , he brought a different Diamond Doll each week . Page ' s wife , Kimberly Page , made her debut on April 6 , 1991 on TBS as one of his Diamond Dolls . When Page started wrestling , he did away with the Diamond Dolls . He brought them back in 1994 , when Kimberly became his regular Diamond Doll . She first played a ditzy bimbo but quickly changed to the innocent disapproving of his cheating ways type character . In 1995 , she left Page ( kayfabe ) when Johnny B . Badd freed her from Page in a match . The Diamond Doll name was not used after that as Kimberly went by her first name until leaving the sport in 2000 .