Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer D-Von Dudley who is a former 10 times Tag Team Champion in WWE recently talked about the current WWE Undisputed Tag Team Champions The Usos using the 1D finishing maneuver which is the exact same move that The Dudley Boys used as a team.
The Dudley Boyz is one of the most famous tag teams in professional wrestling history. They have wrestled on various professional wrestler promotions. They got into the lime light after they started working on the ECW in the 90s as a team. They had been an eight times Tag Team champions in the ECW.
D-Von Dudley Reflects On The Usos Using 1D Finisher
After they arrived in WWE, they kept on working as a tag team and they became a world famous Tag Team in no time. In WWE they had been a 10 times Tag Team Champion. They are considered as legends of professional wrestling and in 2018 they had been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
The Dudley Boys used a several team moves and there signature team move which day used as their finisher was 3D. For a recent number of years, current WWE Tag Team The Usos is being seen using the same maneuver and they have renamed it as 1D. It is mostly a tribute to the legendary Tag Team Dudley Boys.
D-Von Dudley who is a former 10 times Tag Team Champion in WWE recently spoke to Steve Fall of WrestlingNews.co where he talked about the current WWE Undisputed Tag Team Champions The Usos using the 1D finishing maneuver which is the exact same move that The Dudley Boys used as a team. He said;
“They came to me and asked me, I would say, almost two years prior to them using it. I remember them asking me and I said, ‘Man, I would feel honored and privileged if you guys did that because, you know, we came back to WWE and we started with The New Day. Then we went from New Day to The Usos.
“So it was like, being in the ring with them and working with them and seeing the talent that they had, I was honored and privileged that they even came to me and asked, and I said, ‘Absolutely.’ I remember giving them pointers on how to do it in terms of how to make sure you pick up your opponent the right way, and when a guy comes over to cut them like Bubba does, how to do that. We had talked about that, like I said, almost two years prior to them using it.”
“I was honored and privileged. I love them very much. The whole Usos-New Day rivalry, I helped produce those matches. I was very proud of that. The Usos and New Day give me a lot of credit, but I tell him all the time, ‘You guys were in that ring doing it. I was just relaying a message from Vince and what he wanted to be done in the match and that was it. I think you guys should take full credit.’” Said D-Von
“I love the fact that they were very humble enough to thank me and always put me in that category as being one of the ones responsible for helping them get that rivalry started. It was such a pleasure to watch those guys grow. I enjoyed myself to the fullest.”