Former nine times WWE Tag Team Champion D-Von Dudley is currently working in WWE as a backstage producer and he has been playing this role for around five years. He is doing his job pretty well as per reports.
After D-Von fought on his last match along with his tag team partner Bubba Ray Dudley, he was offered to play the role of a backstage producer. But D-Von recently revealed that he was not ready to play this role when he was asked first and he wanted a different role in the company.
WWE Denied D-Von’s Pitch To Work With Apollo Crews – Claims D-Von
He said that wanted to work as the tag team partner of Apollo Crews to help him out. But WWE denied his storyline idea and remained focused on what was actually for the former WCW Tag Team Champion. When D-Von recently appeared as a guest on JOFO in the Ring program he told the story;
On becoming a producer and wanting to work with Apollo:
I wanted to work with Apollo. Bubba went his way and I stayed with WWE. I wasn’t ready to become a producer. I still wanted to wrestle. When I was told ‘no’ and they wanted me as a producer, not as talent, I took the job. I was hearing certain rumblings that Apollo needed to step it up and give it his all and give him that little push.
WWE denying his pitch to work with Apollo in a tag team:
I remember that I volunteered. ‘let me tag with Apollo and help him out.’ I did the same thing with Batista and so many other guys over the years. I thought it would be a great thing to do. I was told ‘no.’ They put him with Titus O’Neil and Titus Worldwide. The opportunity was gone and I was like, ‘Damn.’ I think me and Apollo could’ve done great things, but they said ‘no.’
Now, here is our take on this matter; we believe D-Von’s approach was right, but not the idea. Him being tag team partner of Apollo Crews would not have been a very nice idea, but there is something else that could make things better and more acceptable.
If WWE brought back his Reverend D-Von gimmick to play the manager role of Apollo, it could be pretty interesting. This Reverend gimmick came to existence in late 2002 but it was short-lived. So, he would have been a better manager for Apollo than becoming a Tag Team. But we are not sure it would come into existence anyway.
(H/T and transcribed by WrestleTalk)