The Dudley Boyz Talk WWE Hall of Fame Induction, Their Wrestling Legacy, Being Considered a ‘Joke’ At One Point and More

As noted, WWE has announced The Dudley Boyz will be inducted into the 2018 WWE Hall of Fame class, and the tag team recently spoke with CBS Sports about the honor and their legendary career:

On their legacy in pro wrestling:

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“The legacy of the Dudley Boyz is really the last of the Mohicans,” Bubba Ray told CBS Sports. “We are the last, legitimate, great tag team that you most likely will ever see; the most old school tag team that there is. I don’t think you will ever see a tag team go on to accomplish what we have accomplished, whether that’s in the WWE or any place else. We really are the last of many, many generations of great tag teams.”

On rising to the top despite not being taken seriously:

“The great thing about us is we didn’t take no for an answer,” D-Von said. “We just went out there and did it when nobody thought we could. That was the biggest thing that Bubba and I had to face in our career because, back in ECW, we weren’t really supposed to be an act to be reckoned with.”

“We were considered a joke at one point,” D-Von said. “Bubba was stuttering and there are like nine other Dudleys coming in from other places. It was like a ‘ha ha’ moment. But when we got together, that ‘ha ha’ moment became real and became serious. That’s when people started taking us serious because of what we were doing in the ring and the commotion and the chaos we were causing.”

On being the first homegrown ECW act to be inducted into the Hall of Fame:

“It probably means more to me than anything else,” Bubba Ray said. “Yes, going into the WWE Hall of Fame is cool, but being the first original act ever created in ECW is really a big deal. ECW meant so much to us and it meant so much to wrestling fans. To me, it’s a great honor to represent a company that revolutionized and changed the wrestling business.”