History Wrestling / TheDudleyBoys

Most recently, Bubba Ray and Devon returned to WWE in 2015, until announcing their departure a year later in 2016 and returning to the independent circuit.

** Upon his debut in RingOfHonor, Bully Ray joined up with the Briscoes and won the 6-Man Tag Titles.

** When Mr. Anderson talked about his pregnant wife prior to his and Bully's confrontation at Turning Point 2013, Bully outright started that he could still seriously harm her. Yikes.

* UnrelatedBrothers: None of them are related in any sort of way.

'''The Dudley Boys''' consist of [[{{Kayfabe}} storyline]] [[UnrelatedBrothers half-brothers]] '''Bubba Ray''' (originally spelled '''Buh Buh Ray''' to account for his stutter) and '''D-Von''', occasionally '''Wrestling/SpikeDudley''', and a whole heap of others in Wrestling/{{ECW}}. As one of the top tag teams in the histories of ECW, [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF/E]], and Wrestling/{{TNA}}, Bubba Ray and D-Von[[note]]whose real names are Mark Pierre [=LoMonaco=] and Devon Hughes respectively[[/note]] are notable for becoming the most decorated tag team in professional wrestling history, as well as for their groundbreaking series of matches during the WWF Wrestling/AttitudeEra against the [[Wrestling/JeffHardy Hardy]] [[Wrestling/MattHardy Boys]] and Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}}.

In TNA, the Dudley name was reduced to [[CanonName unofficial name status]] due to [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope WWE trademarking it]], and the main three brothers were known as '''Brother/Bully Ray''', '''Brother Devon''' (or simply just Devon), and '''Brother Runt''' (based on Spike's reputation of being "[[WhiteSheep the runt of the litter]]" alongside his much larger kayfabe brothers), with their team name being '''Team 3D''' (taken from their finishing move). though they and other fellow ECW alumni do get away with calling Bubba and Spike by their original names due to familiarity.

* {{Badass}}: Big Dick Dudley, in RealLife. Bubba Ray has claimed in a shoot interview that he once saw Big Dick beat up five guys all by himself outside a Long Island bar. He also once put his hand through a plate glass window, causing nerve damage and leaving him unable to feel pain in that hand.
** [=ECW=] also played Big Dick's WrestlingMonster image for [[UpToEleven laughs]]. At ''[=ECW=] Gangstas Paradise'', September 16, 1995, he showed up on crutches with his ankle in a cast. It was [[{{Kayfabe}} explained]] that he had been hit by a truck, and that the ''truck'' had been totaled.

* AnythingButThat: Bubba Ray has said that the two things he never wanted to have do in wrestling were shave his head and use the name "Bubba."

Most recently, Bubba Ray and Devon returned to WWE in 2015, until announcing their retirement in late 2016 after 20+ years of putting people through tables.

Most recently, Bubba Ray and Devon returned to WWE in 2015.

* WhiteSheep: Spike would be the scrappy good guy against his bullying brothers. The exception was during his Smackdown heel turn, where Bubba and Devon were trying to help him even though he did not want it. Eventually though, Spike Dudley would side with them against Rey and declare himself the boss.

** When Mr Anderson talked about his pregnant wife prior to his and Bully's confrontation at Turning Point 2013, Bully outright started that he could still seriously harm her. Yikes.

** Later played straight after Dixie, disguised as a cameraman, blindsided Bully and shoved him through a table during a match between him and Wrestling/BobbyRoode at the next pay-per-view. From there, the storyline developed into Bully's quest to put Dixie through a table, which he eventually did with the help of Devon.

** Later played straight after Dixie put Bully through a table during a match between him and Wrestling/BobbyRoode at the next pay-per-view. From there, the storyline developed into Bully's quest to put Dixie through a table, which he eventually did with the help of Devon.

** Subverted during Bully's following HeelFaceTurn the night Dixie Carter first came back to Impact after losing control of wrestling operations. At one point all that was in the ring was Bully, Dixie, and a table set up across the ring from them. He approached her as if he was gonna do it. Cue commercial break. When the show returned, she was walking through the back and confronted Magnus on her way out. It was all a PseudoCrisis for Dixie, most likely because of Creator/SpikeTV's rules against man-on-woman violence. Bully references this the following week. The storyline would gradually develop into Bully's quest to put Dixie through a table, which he eventually did with the help of Devon.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: Little Spike Dudley.

** In their early days in ECW, they used Music/{{ACDC}}'s "Highway to Hell," which Spike continued to use until ECW closed.

%% * SaltAndPepper: Bubba Ray and Devon.

** Bubba, by Wrestling/TrishStratus, until he overcame it and table-bombed her at ''Backlash 2000.''

You can find the basics about the whole "family" in general [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_family here]] and about Bubba Ray and Devon in particular [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dudley_Boys here]].

* = Bubba is a lot smarter in real life than his character would suggest, as evidenced by his performance on ''Series/TheWeakestLink'', where he was the strongest player for the first four rounds.

** Subverted during Bully's following HeelFaceTurn the night Dixie Carter first came back to Impact after losing control of wrestling operations. At one point all that was in the ring was Bully, Dixie, and a table set up across the ring from them. He approached her as if he was gonna do it. Cue commercial break. When the show returned, she was walking through the back and confronted Magnus on her way out. It was all a PseudoCrisis for Dixie, most likely because of SpikeTV's rules against man-on-woman violence. Bully references this the following week. The storyline would gradually develop into Bully's quest to put Dixie through a table, which he eventually did with the help of Devon.

** Wrestling/{{Edge}} & Wrestling/{{Christian}}, and [[Wrestling/JeffHardy the]] [[Wrestling/MattHardy Hardys]] while in WWE. The Eliminators (Wrestling/PerrySaturn and John Kronus), the Gangstas (Wrestling/NewJack and Mustafa), Tommy Dreamer, [[Wrestling/JimFullington the Sandman]], Little Spike Dudley, Axl Rotten[=/=]Wrestling/BallsMahoney[=/=]Wrestling/MasatoTanaka in ECW. The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez), the Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin), the British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams), and Beer Money Inc. (Wrestling/JamesStorm and Wrestling/Bobby Roode) in TNA as a team. They didn't make too many friends.

* SaltAndPepper: Bubba Ray and Devon.

* TheConscience: As one of Bully Ray's CoDragons in the Aces & Eights, Devon was a villainous version of this for Bully and the group in general, keeping things together and helping organize their plans. Ultimately the club began to fall apart once he was pinned by Wrestling/AJStyles and forced to leave TNA — mainly because Bully's once-[[BenevolentBoss stellar and uniting leadership]] [[BadBoss deteriorated quickly]]. Even before this, it's been acknowledged both

'''The Dudley Boys''' consisted of [[{{Kayfabe}} storyline]] [[UnrelatedBrothers half-brothers]] '''Bubba Ray''' (originally spelled '''Buh Buh Ray''' to account for his stutter) and '''D-Von''', occasionally '''Wrestling/SpikeDudley''', and a whole heap of others in Wrestling/{{ECW}}. As one of the top tag teams in the histories of ECW, [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF/E]], and Wrestling/{{TNA}}, Bubba Ray and D-Von[[note]]whose real names are Mark Pierre [=LoMonaco=] and Devon Hughes respectively[[/note]] are notable for becoming the most decorated tag team in professional wrestling history, as well as for their groundbreaking series of matches during the WWF Wrestling/AttitudeEra against the [[Wrestling/JeffHardy Hardy]] [[Wrestling/MattHardy Boys]] and Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}}.

* TheConscience: As one of Bully Ray's CoDragons in the Aces & Eights, Devon was a villainous version of this for Bully and the group in general, keeping things together and helping organize their plans. Ultimately the club began to fall apart once he was pinned by Wrestling/AJStyles and forced to leave TNA — mainly because Bully's once-[[BenevolentBoss stellar and uniting leadership]] [[BadBoss deteriorated quickly]]. Even before this, it's been acknowledged both in and out of {{kayfabe}} that Bubba has had a tendency to come off as an asshole to people backstage, whereas Devon, considered to be a model professional and human being by everyone who knows him, has even protected Bubba from burning bridges on occasion. This is all ironic, considering who initially served on TV as…
* TheCorrupter: D-Von, when he debuted in ECW in 1996. The Dudleys (Buh Buh Ray/Chubby/Sign Guy/Dances With/Big Dick) were comedic faces at the time, having left Raven's Nest, and D-Von went about the business of making them serious. He purged Chubby and D.W. Buh Buh finally turned at ''Crossing the Line Again,'' February 1, 1997, losing his stutter as well.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Buh Buh Ray showed signs of this early on, particularly when he showed he could [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTd2jzB7hcE hang on the mat]] with ''Taz''.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Spike, in his "Giant-Killer" gimmick in ECW, or generally against anyone significantly bigger than he is, including Buh Buh Ray, D-Von and Big Dick.
* DeerInTheHeadlights: Bully Ray and Devon's reaction to Abyss returning in 2013 and making a beeline right for them. The fact that Abyss has already left the entirety of their Stable unconscious backstage earlier and promptly [[FoeTossingCharge bulldozes over Mr. Anderson]] is a good indicator this was a justified reaction.
* DisneyOwnsThisTrope: Thanks to WWE's habit of trademarking, they had to change their name when they left for TNA. Bubba Ray became Brother Ray, later Bully Ray as heel, D-von went with Brother Devon and Spike became Brother Runt.
* DistractedByTheSexy:
** Bubba, by Wrestling/TrishStratus, until he overcame it and table-bombed her at ''Backlash 2000.''
** Wrestling/StacyKeibler's primary tactic as the Dudleys' valet. Occasionally backfired by distracting the referee instead, and on the rare occasion, Bubba.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: When competing on ''Series/TheWeakestLink'', Bubba stated he was competing for the American Cancer Society, "and my momma".
* EvilAllAlong: Devon, in regards to Wrestling/AcesAndEights. Bully Ray joined soon after in GOLDEN fashion.
* FatBastard: Chubby Dudley, who just used to stand around and eat potato chips.
* FinishingMove:
** The Dudley Death Drop/3D (evolved out of the [[Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage Buh Buh Cutter]], which he had debuted at ''November to Remember '96'' in his match against D-Von. The 3D first appeared at ''Crossing the Line Again'', February 1, 1997.)
** Big Dick: Total Penetration (Sit-out Chokebomb pin), Big Dick Driver (Torture rack into a Death Valley Driver)
** Spike: Acid Drop/Dudley Dog (running up turnbuckles bulldog) and a top rope diving double foot stomp
* {{Flanderization}}: WWE pretty much made tables and catchphrases the focus of their characters in WWE, to the exclusion of what they were like in ECW.
* FriendToAllChildren: After putting Ink Inc's Jesse Neal through a table at a TNA show in New Jersey, Bully Ray and Brother Devon called the children in attendance into the ring and distributed the table wreckage to them.
* FunWithAcronyms: '''L'''ittle '''S'''pike '''D'''udley.
* GeniusBruiser:
* = Bubba is a lot smarter in real life than his character would suggest, as evidenced by his performance on ''Series/TheWeakestLink'', where he was the strongest player for the first four rounds.
** Also, Spike is another in the list of teachers turned wrestlers.
* GimmickMatches: They're quite fond of Table Matches (the winner is the first to put an opponent through a table.) Along with the Hardys and Edge and Christian, they originated the TLC match (essentially a Ladder Match, where Tables, Ladders and Chairs litter the arena).
* AGodAmI:
** The second episode of ''ECW on TNN'', September 3 (taped August 26), 1999, was their last night in ECW. They defeated Balls Mahoney and Spike for the ECW World Tag Team Titles and [[http://www.cagematch.net/?id=93&nr=918 threatened to take them with them to WWE.]]
-->'''BUBBA''': "In ECW boys become men. In ECW men become heroes. But in the World Wrestling Federation heroes become legends and legends become gods. And if God was a heel, he'd be the Dudley Boyz!"
** At some point during their run as a team in TNA they ended at least one promo the same way, save for the name change to Team 3D.
** Bully Ray also says this in the 10/24/2013 edition of [=TNA=]: "If God was a bully, he'd be me!"
* TheGogglesDoNothing: The glasses the Dudleys wore were just the frames.
* HammyHerald: "[[RedBaron The Quintessential [=Studmuffin=]]] and a damn handsome man, Joel 'Put your lipstick on my dipstick' Gertner."
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: From the Brand Extension onwards.
* {{Heel}}: From Buh Buh Ray's turn in February 1997 until they left in September 1999. On the ''Rise and Fall of ECW'' [=DVD=], Bubba says, "We were the definition of the word ''heel'', we were the worst of the worst."
* HesBack: After a decade-long absence, the Dudley Boys returned on the August 24 edition of RAW, attacking [[Wrestling/BigELangston The]] [[Wrestling/KofiKingston New]] [[Wrestling/XavierWoods Day]]. The crowd ''exploded'' when they saw them, and were red hot as they absolutely destroyed the newly crowned Tag Team Champions.
* IHaveManyNames:
** Dudley Dudley (Jeff Bradley) has also been known as the Insane O.D.D., "Bad Boy" Jeff Bradley and "Texas Tangler" Bruiser Bradley.
** Little Snot (Anthony Michaels) has also been known as Fire and Tony Carlone.
** Big Dick (Alex Rizzo) had previously been known as Alexander the Great.
** Dances with (Alfonso Bermudez) has also been known as White Wolf, White Cloud, Chief Dudley and Alfonso.
** Sign Guy (Lou [=D'Angeli=]) was repackaged as "Lou E. Dangerously," a [[SelfDeprecation Take That Me]] knockoff of [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul E.]]
** Bubba has also been known as the Terminator, Mongo, Mongo Vyle, Brother Ray and now Bully Ray.
** D-Von started out as A-Train, and also used the names Reverend Devon, Brother Devon and now simply Devon.
* ImprobableWeaponUser:
** "D-VON, GET THE TABLES!!!"
** The three used belts on Smackdown when Spike took over the group and became the Cruiserweight champion.
* KnightTemplar: Reverend Devon, in his attempts to make his brother "see the light".
* LegacyCharacter:
** Florida indy wrestlers Schmuck Dudley (Jeff Roth), who teamed with Little Snot, and [[Series/FamilyMatters Urkel Dudley]].
** New York indy wrestler Psycho Sam Dudley, who teamed with Big Dick in the USA Pro (later USA [=Xtreme=]) Wrestling promotion.
* LightningBruiser: Devon more so than the rest, at least until Bully Ray went through his personal makeover to become the TNA World Champion.
* {{Mascot}}: Spike was this as Bubba and D-Von's third wheel in the beginning of his WWF/E run.
* MightyGlacier: Big Dick Dudley. Fearsome, though not entirely agile.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Little Spike Dudley.
* NerdGlasses: Frames held together with tape to be precises.
* NiceHat: Bubba Ray wore a backwards baseball cap during his ill-fated solo run in 2002.
* NoNameGiven: As Team 3D, following their WWE departure forcing them to drop the Dudley names. However, the full trademarked names of Brother Ray and Brother Devon featured the last name "Deadly"—which Bubba ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM4Y_uVeavk self-admittedly]]) held off on using because he got pissed when it leaked ahead of time.
** CanonName: They briefly mentioned that their father's name was Dudley during their feud with Wrestling/{{Konnan}} and [[GangBangers LAX]], and Devon continues to go by "Devon Dudley" both on Twitter and for certain independent appearances. Also, remember that 3D stands for "Dudley Death Drop".
* NobleDemon: Bully Ray became this at the outset of the Aces and 8s angle as a misdirection to hide that he was behind it all.
* PartsUnknown: "Dudleyville." In ECW, the various Dudleys were billed from various parts of Dudleyville including Metropolitain Dudleyville (Bubba Ray), The South Side of Dudleyville (D-Von), The Twisted Steel Section of Dudleyville (Big Dick).
* PowerStable: Aside from the family itself, Buh Buh Ray was a member of Raven's Nest until the family turned face and left in early 1996. As a team, they were in the Alliance in WWE and the TNA Front Line, [=EV 2.0=] and now Aces & Eights. Ray was also in Immortal.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Bully Ray and Devon's feud from 2010-11 was promptly considered to have been long resolved off-screen the moment Bully revealed that he was the true leader and mastermind behind the Aces & Eights. Since then, aside from Bully [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial coldly dismissing Devon's value to him to keep up his image of being in control]] after Devon was literally pinned out of Wrestling/{{TNA}} a few months later, they have had each other's backs whenever they've appeared together in any promotion as faces and heels.
* PutOnABus:
** Dudley Dudley (Jeff Bradley) and Little Snot Dudley (Anthony Michaels) both went down to the Florida independent scene (where Bradley had started) after leaving ECW.
** Big Dick Dudley was fired from ECW after the December 6, 1998 show, but continued to appear until leaving after a loss to Tommy Rogers at the February 17, 1999 show.
** Bubba Ray and D-Von both spent the better part of six years in WWE before the bus from there dropped them off at TNA for the better part of nine.
** Spike joined his brothers a year or two later in both companies, was put on the bus at the same time from WWE, went back on the bus due to semi-retirement in between brief stops at TNA.
** TheBusCameBack: Bubba Ray came back to the 'E in 2015 as a Royal Rumble Entry.
* RealSongThemeTune:
** In their early days in ECW, they used Music/{{ACDC}}'s "Highway to Hell," which Spike continued to use until ECW closed.
** After Buh Buh Ray's heel turn, the Dudleys [[AvertedTrope stopped using music altogether]], and the only sounds heard during their entrances would be the boos of the crowd.
** "Bombshell" by Music/{{Powerman 5000}} following their 2003 reunion to the end of their WWE run.
* RearrangeTheSong: Bubba's singles theme, "Turn The Tables" by Saliva, was a heavier version of the Dudleys' prior theme, "We're Coming Down".
* RedOniBlueOni: The main two, Bubba Ray and Devon. Though over the years, Bubba Ray became the loudmouth and Devon the more reserved.
* RepetitiveName: Dudley Dudley.
* SignatureMove: Besides the diving headbutt, Bubba Ray also had the Bubba bomb and a punch combination that finished with a [[Wrestling/DustyRhodes Bionic Elbow]]. Devon had a diving shoulder block and on lesser occasions, a [[Wrestling/RonKillings corkscrew forearm.]]
* SpeechImpediment: Buh Buh Ray's stutter.
* TalkingWithSigns: The Dudleyville Fashionplate, The Silence Behind The Violence, Sign Guy Dudley.
* TheThreeCertaintiesInLife: One of their T-shirts had "Death, Taxes, Tables" on the back.
* TipisAndTotemPoles: D.W. Dudley. That's Dances With Dudley (from The Dudleyville Reservation).
* TookALevelInBadass: Bubba/Brother Ray reinvented himself as Bully Ray, dropping fifty pounds off his rotund figure and improving his workrate. Now the man can chain-wrestle ''Wrestling/KurtAngle''! He's also not shy about letting everyone know, too; during his massive weight loss, he would often boast about it during promos, demand that the cameraman "shoot [his] calves", and refer to himself as Calfzilla.
* UnrelatedBrothers: None of them are related in any sort of way.
** WrestlingFamily: In {{kayfabe}}, they're all half-brothers with the same father, who [[ReallyGetsAround really got around]].
* TheVoiceless: Big Dick Dudley.
* WeaponOfChoice: Tables. Their FinishingMove, the 3D (Dudley Death Drop), is frequently done by putting their opponent through one. It's even become a [[CrowdSong chant]] to yell "D-Von, get the tables!" along with Bubba.
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Sometimes in ECW, Bubba would wear a Confederate flag do-rag on his head.
* WhiteSheep: Spike would be the scrappy good guy against his bullying brothers. The exception was during his Smackdown heel turn, where Bubba and Devon were trying to help him even though he did not want it. Eventually though, Spike Dudley would side with them against Rey and declare himself the boss.
* WouldHitAGirl:
** Sent Wrestling/{{Beulah McGillicutty}} into retirement when they gave her the 3-D in ECW in 1998.
** More in the line of putting them through tables. This included Mae Young, who was in her ''eighties'' at the time!
** When Mr Anderson talked about his pregnant wife prior to his and Bully's confrontation at Turning Point 2013, Bully outright started that he could still seriously harm her. Yikes.
** Subverted during Bully's following HeelFaceTurn the night Dixie Carter first came back to Impact after losing control of wrestling operations. At one point all that was in the ring was Bully, Dixie, and a table set up across the ring from them. He approached her as if he was gonna do it. Cue commercial break. When the show returned, she was walking through the back and confronted Magnus on her way out. It was all a PseudoCrisis for Dixie, most likely because of SpikeTV's rules against man-on-woman violence. Bully references this the following week. The storyline would gradually develop into Bully's quest to put Dixie through a table, which he eventually did with the help of Devon.
** They defeated [[Wrestling/AjaKong Erika]] and [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Margaret]] for the HUSTLE super tag team championship belts.
* XtremeKoolLetterz: They sometimes spelled their name The Dudley Boyz.
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'''D-Von... GET THE TABLES!'''
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** DeathFromAbove: He did pull off a moonsault at ''November to Remember '96'', though.

* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Bully Ray and Devon's feud from 2010-11 was promptly considered to have been long resolved off-screen the moment Bully revealed that he was the true leader and mastermind behind the Aces & Eights. Since then, aside from Bully [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial coldly dismissing Devon's value to him to keep up his image of being in control]] after Devon was literally pinned out of Wrestling/{{TNA}} a few months later, they have had each other's backs whenever they've appeared together both in and out of TNA as faces and heels.

** WrestlingFamily: In {{kayfabe}}, they're all half-brothers with the same mother, who [[ReallyGetsAround really got around]].