We're more of an old-school, traditional pro wrestling training academy.

If the average Joe off the street wants to become a pro wrestler, they can't just walk into the Performance Center. The Performance Center will pick the people they want to bring in and they want to train. How do you feel the launch of NXT has impacted students of your academy? Are they more excited about the business now?ĭudley: The Team 3D Academy has been around since 2007, and it's completely different from the Performance Center. I think that people always use the term 'the roof would have blown off the place,' but I think if Devon would have came out and the Dudleys would have been standing in the middle of the ring at the Royal Rumble, I think you would have had the same reaction, if not a bigger reaction, as we got in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn when me and Devon got back together.ī/R: You've run a very successful wrestling academy for years with Devon in Florida, which is not too far from NXT in Full Sail University. R-Truth did a great job filling in, but did you feel a void without Devon by your side?ĭudley: I really wished Devon could have been there, and if you go back and you watch the Rumble again, about 30 seconds before I got eliminated, the crowd starts chanting 'We Want Devon.' So, wrestling fans still knew who we were, fans in the WWE Universe still knew who we were, so you put that together, and you get a surprise entrant-the first surprise entrant into the Royal Rumble-you have all of the elements needed for the type of reaction that I got.ī/R: You mentioned Devon he was missing from this equation at the Royal Rumble. We were out there traveling all around the world, conquering the world of tag team wrestling in every corner of the planet you can possibly think of, whether that was TNA, in Japan or any place. When you were getting ready to make your entrance at the Royal Rumble earlier this year, was there any doubt in your mind that the fans wouldn't explode the way they did?īubba Ray Dudley: I don't want to sound cocky, but no. There's this fear that maybe the fans forgot. Still, he is able to connect with a new world effortlessly.īleacher Report: I've heard before from wrestlers that your mind plays tricks on you when you've been away from the WWE for a while.

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