The Dudley Boyz parted ways with WWE in 2006, and they finally made their long awaited return to the company in the summer of 2015. Fans had high hopes for their return run, but it seems that Bully Ray and D-Von returned to a different WWE than the one they were used to.
During a recent appearance on Stories with Brisco and Bradshaw WWE Hall of Famer Bully Ray opened up about his last run with the company, and he explained why the process of working with agents left him feeling creatively stifled.
“When D-Von and I left in 2006, I remember what WWE was like. When we went back in 2015, I remember feeling so stifled as a performer. Because you had to run almost everything by the agent, and being told that two guys don’t bump and feed for a comeback anymore, or that you can’t do this behind the ref’s back. Everything that worked in the Attitude Era that made all of us a lot of money, now you couldn’t do anymore. And there was not really a good reason why they didn’t want it done anymore. It’s just that they’d not want it done.
“I remember dealing with an agent one time where I came up with something different and I felt passionate about it. I asked my agent to please go run it by Vince. My agent said, ‘Okay, I will’. Then I followed my agent for an hour, he never spoke with Vince, then he came back and said, ‘Yeah, Vince doesn’t want to do that’. I lose all the respect in the world for you. I would much rather you tell me to my face, ‘You know what, Bubba? I don’t want to talk with Vince right now. You go do it’.”
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