History Wrestling / TheDudleyBoys

** 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.

** Doubled with ThreeMonthRule: On the October 25, 2012 edition of ''Impact'', Bully confronted Devon over the latter joining Wrestling/AcesAndEights. Devon claimed it was because the Aces & Eights picked him back up when Wrestling/HulkHogan carelessly let his contract run out and did nothing to resign him. However, Bully refuted him by saying it was about the two's personal issues stemming back from two years prior, when Bully turned on Devon for expressing his disregard for the fans backstage after Team 3D lost their supposed "retirement match" — which Devon was all too happy to confirm having said/done. Except anyone who was actually watching TNA at the time knows that Bully was the clear heel in that feud, having betrayed Devon solely because he blamed Devon's "weakness" for them losing said match and [[SmallNameBigEgo claimed himself to be the star of the team]], even going so far as to [[WouldHurtAChild attack Devon's teenage twin sons]] to hammer the point home.

*** Altered to "You can testify to that!" during the Wrestling/AcesAndEights run.

*** The Wrestling/AcesAndEights version is "Do you know who we are!?"

* EvilAllAlong: Devon, in regards to Wrestling/AcesAndEights. Bully Ray joined soon after in GOLDEN fashion, revealing that everything up to that point [[ArcWelding had been planned by him]].

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The full name of the 3D, the Dudley Death Drop. After leaving the WWE & being forced to drop the Dudley names, the move was simply referred to as the 3D, but they had the name "[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Deadly Death Drop]]" trademarked.

The Dudley Boys (also known as The Dudley Boyz or Team 3D) 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}}.

** Wrestling/{{Edge}} & Wrestling/{{Christian}}, [[Wrestling/JeffHardy The]] [[Wrestling/MattHardy Hardys]], Wrestling/TheNewDay and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily while in WWE. Wrestling/TheEliminators (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/BobbyRoode) in TNA as a team. They didn't make too many friends.

* MythologyGag: While thanking the audience on their final appearance in WWE programming, the Dudley Boys (who were heavily associated with Table Matches in the WWE) made passing references to two of their most famous rival tag-teams in the promotion: Wrestling/{{Edge}} & Wrestling/{{Christian}} (who pioneered the use of chairs in matches), and the [[Wrestling/JeffHardy Hardy]] [[Wrestling/MattHardy Boys]] (who gained notoriety in the WWE for their memorable Ladder matches).

* BaldOfEvil: Buh Buh Ray as a heel.

* EvilAllAlong: Devon, in regards to Wrestling/AcesAndEights. Bully Ray joined soon after in GOLDEN fashion.

* OlderHeroVersusYoungerVillain: They feud against Wrestling/TheNewDay and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily.

* WrestlingDoesntPay: When the team was split up by the original Brand Extension, Devon was given a gimmick as a crooked reverend and Wrestling/VinceMcMahon's "spiritual advisor". It didn't last long.

** [=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.

* AnythingThatMoves: The backstory explanation for why the Dudleys look nothing alike is that Big Daddy Dudley was a traveling salesman who really got around.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Buh Buh Ray showed signs of this early on, particularly when he showed he could [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTd2jzB7hcE hang on the mat]] with ''Taz''.

* 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.

* NiceHat: Bubba Ray wore a backwards baseball cap during his ill-fated solo run in 2002.

* {{Acrofatic}}: Bubba Ray.

* BlackSheep: Very literally in the beginning, D-Von lead the rest of the family down the dark path of a FaceHeelTurn

** "D-VON, GET THE TABLES!!!"

* SpeechImpediment: Buh Buh Ray's stutter.

** Doubled with ThreeMonthRule: On the October 25, 2012 edition of ''Impact'', Bully confronted Devon over the latter joining Wrestling/AcesAndEights. Devon claimed it was because the Aces & Eights picked him back up when Wrestling/HulkHogan carelessly let his contract run out and did nothing to resign him. However, Bully refuted him by saying it was about the two's personal issues stemming back from two years prior, when Bully turned on Devon for expressing his disregard for the fans backstage after Team 3D lost their supposed "retirement match" — which Devon was all too happy to confirm having said/done. Except anyone who was actually watching TNA at the time knows that Bully was the clear heel in that feud, having betrayed Devon solely because he blamed Devon's "weakness" for them losing said match and [[SmallNameBigEgo considered himself to be]] [[BreakupBreakout the star of the team]], even going so far as to [[WouldHurtAChild attack Devon's teenage twin sons]] to hammer the point home.

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 [[GrandfatherClause familiarity]].

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. Devon retired after their last match together at the December 2016 House of Hardcore event. Bully Ray embarked on a singles {{face}} run with Wrestling/RingOfHonor which was seemingly cut short when he retired in October 2017 following a concussion, though ended up unretiring in May 2018.

* AllegedLookalikes: Bubba Ray and Devon were able to get away with the [[TagTeamTwins twin switch]] on WWE Smackdown after Paul Heyman declared them to be identical...even though they are not.

** Wrestling/{{Edge}} & Wrestling/{{Christian}}, [[Wrestling/JeffHardy the]] [[Wrestling/MattHardy Hardys]], Wrestling/TheNewDay and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily while in WWE. Wrestling/TheEliminators (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/BobbyRoode) in TNA as a team. They didn't make too many friends.

** D-Von first appeared in ECW at the March 29, 1996 show at the [=Bodyslams=] Arena in Reading, PA as A-Train. The ECW World Tag Team Champions the Eliminators d. him and El Puerto Ricano (Pablo Marquez.) See ClusterFBomb below.
** Dudley Dudley jobbed for [[Wrestling/{{Tazz}} the Tazmaniac (Taz)]] as Evil Snack on May 5, 1995 at the War Memorial Auditorium in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and on May 6 at the Expo Park in Tampa. The Dudley gimmick (originally Dudley Dudley, Little Snot and Big Dick) debuted at ''ECW Hardcore Heaven 95'', July 1, 1995, at the ECW Arena with a surprise win over the Pitbulls. See under [=Hilarious In Hindsight=] on the YMMV page.

* RearrangeTheSong: Bubba's singles theme, "Turn The Tables" by Saliva, was a heavier version of the Dudleys' prior theme, "We're Coming Down".

* 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.]]

* UnrelatedBrothers: None of them are related in any sort of way. One of them is ''[[ChocolateBaby black.]]''

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.

** Wrestling/{{Edge}} & Wrestling/{{Christian}}, [[Wrestling/JeffHardy the]] [[Wrestling/MattHardy Hardys]], Wrestling/TheNewDay and Wrestling/TheWyattFamily 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/BobbyRoode) in TNA as a team. They didn't make too many friends.

* 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.

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}}.

* TheCameo: [[Wrestling/TheSheepherders The Bushwhackers]] appeared at ECW's April 9, 1998 show as "Cousin Luke Dudley" and "Cousin Butch Dudley."

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. Devon retired after their last match together at the December 2016 House of Hardcore event, and Bully Ray embarked on a singles {{face}} run with Wrestling/RingOfHonor which was cut short when he retired in October 2017 following a concussion.

* RealSongThemeTune:
** In their early days in ECW, they used Music/{{ACDC}}'s "Highway to Hell," which Spike continued to use until ECW closed. The team also used C.R.E.A.M. by Wu-Tang Clan.
** 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.

* BreakupBreakout:
** Bubba Ray and D-Von, and to a lesser degree Spike, to the rest of the Dudley Family from ECW.
** When the team broke up in WWE for roughly half a year in 2002 following the Brand Separation, Bubba got a sustained singles push on flagship show ''RAW'' while D-Von took on a Reverend gimmick on ''Smackdown''. Bubba was on TV for the entire period, whereas D-Von disappeared for a few months towards the end of the summer, before repackaged back to D-Von Dudley and reuniting with Bubba.
** They again broke up in TNA during 2010, with Bubba/Brother Ray turning on D-Von/Devon, christening himself Bully Ray while referring to himself as the Shawn Michaels to Devon's Marty Jannetty. Bully Ray then dropped about 50 pounds, going from a hefty 325 to 275, and brought back some of his more obnoxiously heel traits from ECW along with some BrooklynRage; he is now one of the company's top heels while Devon languished in the lower midcard before being released…only to be revealed as one of the Wrestling/AcesAndEights at ''Bound For Glory 2012'', becoming the de-facto face of the faction and simultaneously being catapulted into the main event scene opposite Bully Ray.
** For the next few months Bully Ray would portray the NobleDemon role, helping against Aces & Eights and trying hard to gain Wrestling/HulkHogan's trust as a good guy while entering a romance and marriage with Hulk's daughter, to the point where Hulk would shaft eight guys to give him a World Heavyweight title shot…only to win said championship by revealing that he was the President of the Aces & Eights the entire time and that part of the reason for doing so was for the way Devon was an afterthought to Hulk Hogan pre-Aces & Eights.
-->''Nobody'' turns their back on my brother.

** Also, the in-show portion of that final appearance saw them taken out in an attack by Wrestling/KarlAnderson and Wrestling/LukeGallows (Team 3D cut a promo at ''Boumnd for Glory'' in 2014 sending out a challenge to Wrestling/BulletClub, over a year after a certain big bald outlaw had served as the Director of Chaos in Aces & Eights).

* MythologyGag: while thanking the audience on their final appearance in WWE programming, the Dudley Boys (who were heavily associated with Table Matches in the WWE) made passing references to two of their most famous rival tag-teams in the promotion: Wrestling/{{Edge}} & Wrestling/{{Christian}} (who pioneered the use of chairs in matches), and the [[Wrestling/JeffHardy Hardy]] [[Wrestling/MattHardy Boys]] (who gained notoriety in the WWE for their memorable Ladder matches)

** Spike: Acid Drop/Dudley Dog (running up turnbuckles bulldog) and a top rope diving double foot stomp

** 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/BobbyRoode) in TNA as a team. They didn't make too many friends.