Professional wrestling legend and former two times TNA Television Champion D-Von Dudley who is also a former ten times Tag Team champion recently talked about reports of him being threatened to be fired by WWE during ECW reunion show and dismissed the claim.
D-Von along with his Tag Team partner Bubba Ray Dudley for the first time in 1999 after an amazing three year spell in the Extreme Championship Wrestling. The contribution of the Dudley Boyz is impossible to deny in the Tag Team division of professional wrestling.
D-Von Dudley Remembers Claims Of Being Threatened To Be Fired By WWE
After having an amazing spell of six years in WWE the legendary duo went to the Total Nonstop Action and spent nine years in the promotion. They had a small three are run on the independent circuit after they left the Total Nonstop Action.
In 2015 they joined WWE, but this run was only for promoting new talents. They announce their in retirement in 2016. Since then, D-Von is working as a backstage producer in WWE and he’s going quite strong right now. Right now he is employed in the NXT for backstage roles.
D-Von Dudley who is also a former ten times Tag Team champion recently spoke to Steve Fall of WrestlingNews.co where he talked about reports of him being threatened to be fired by WWE during ECW reunion show and dismissed the claim. He said;
“Let me just say this. No issues with Triple H. Triple H did not threaten to fire me. What a lot of people don’t know is I did not speak to Hunter directly during that, but no, he did not threaten to fire me. It was just again, you know, miscommunication on the dirt sheet writers or whatever, but that was not the case. Again, I can’t really go into detail right now.”
“You have shirts out there that say ‘I’m a Paul Heyman guy.’ I’m a Paul Heyman guy because he helped me with ECW, but I’m only a Triple H guy. I can’t begin to thank that man enough for everything that he’s done for me. He was the reason why I became a producer.
“When Bubba and I left in 2016 as talent, it was from my understanding, it was him that actually suggested for me to become a producer. I remember the night we said farewell to the Dudley’s, he pulled me aside and asked me if I would like the job. I told him, ‘I’m not ready to hang it up yet. There’s still a lot left in the tank for me.
“I would still love to wrestle and maybe help out some of the younger talent, you know, like Apollo Crews, you know, things like that.’ But, you know, unfortunately, Vince wanted both parties and there was nothing he could do at that point, so that’s why he offered me the job. I said, ‘Well, do I have a choice.? He goes, ‘No, not really D-Von.’ I said, ‘Well, I’ll take a producer’s job’, because I still wanted to be a part of the company. I really enjoy it. It was my childhood dream of mine to work for WWE.”
H/T & Transcription – WrestlingHeadlines.com