![]() They won their first World Tag Team Championship from The Eliminators ( John Kronus and Perry Saturn) at Hostile City Showdown on March 15, 1997. They became the most successful members of the Dudley family as they dominated the tag team division of ECW. In February 1997, however, Buh Buh Ray and D-Von united at Crossing the Line Again and kicked all of the remaining Dudleys except for Big Dick Dudley and Sign Guy Dudley out of the family, becoming villains in the process. Initially, D-Von was hostile toward his family, saying that "true Dudleys" were not comedians. Little Spike Dudley also debuted in 1996 and teamed with Buh Buh Ray against The Full Blooded Italians. All the members of the Dudley family chased for the World Tag Team Championship at that time. Hughes, as D-Von Dudley (the only black member of the family), debuted in ECW in April 1996 at Massacre on Queens Boulevard. LoMonaco's Buh Buh Ray Dudley at the time was a fat, stuttering hillbilly who entertained the fans by dancing and wrestled with several of his "half-brothers", including Hyson's Little Spike Dudley, for the ECW World Tag Team Championship several times. The teaming of LoMonaco and Hughes was born from ECW's Dudley family, a team of comedic fan favorites that consisted of many illegitimate children of the mythical traveling salesman "Big Daddy" Dudley. History Extreme Championship Wrestling (1996–1999) Longtime pro wrestling journalist Fin Martin of Power Slam, in contemplating the greatest tag team of all time, wrote: "If one were to base his decision on longevity, title wins and success in a variety of companies, The Dudley Boyz would get the nod". On May 21, 2007, Bubba Ray and D-Von opened the Team 3D Academy of Professional Wrestling and Sports Entertainment at the X-Cel Fitness Gym in Kissimmee, Florida. They are famously known for their pioneering use of tables in their matches, usually beginning with Bubba Ray asking D-Von to "get the tables" in the middle of a match. In 2018, the duo was inducted into WWE Hall of Fame, joining Sting, Kurt Angle and Jeff Jarrett (the latter also inducted the same year) as wrestlers who have been inducted into both the TNA and WWE Halls of Fame. WWE recognizes them as the most decorated tag team in company history, with 18 world tag team championship reigns, while IMPACT Wrestling recognizes them as 23-time world tag team champions. On June 15, 2014, at Slammiversary XII, Team 3D (as a team) were selected as that year's induction into the TNA Hall of Fame. During their time as members of Aces & Eights, Ray was TNA World Heavyweight Champion on two occasions, while Devon was Television Champion. They are the only tag team to hold the WWF, WWE, ECW, WCW, NWA, TNA and IWGP Tag Team Championships, as well as to win the All Japan Pro Wrestling's World's Strongest Tag Determination League (although they never won the AJPW World Tag Team Championship) and are thus regarded among the greatest tag teams of all time. After a brief feud with one another, Devon and Bully Ray were reunited as part of the villainous faction Aces & Eights. Later in their TNA career, Brother Ray used the ring name Bully Ray while Brother Devon wrestled as simply Devon. Spike Dudley later signed with TNA and again sided with Team 3D as Brother Runt. The team wrestled as the Dudley Boyz in ECW and WWF/E, and upon joining TNA-Due to WWE owning the rights to their names-they became known as Brother Ray and Brother Devon of Team 3D (named after their finishing move the Dudley Death Drop). They are considered one of the major teams that revived tag team wrestling during the Attitude Era and have been described as the greatest and most decorated tag team in professional wrestling history. They are also well known for their tenure in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, now Impact). They are best known for their time in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) where Joel Gertner was their manager. The team was also joined by various Dudley family members, notably Spike Dudley and former valet Stacy Keibler. The Dudley Boyz (also known as Team 3D) are an American professional wrestling tag team that consisted of kayfabe half-brothers Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley. D-Von and Bubba Ray making the 3D taunt (index finger and thumb forming the lower part of a 'd', the middle finger forming the upper part of the 'd' while also representing the number 3 along with the two remaining digits)īuh Buh Ray Dudley / Bubba Ray Dudley / Brother Ray / Bully Ray
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