The Dudley Boyz Express Their Desires to Return to WWE

For months following Bully Ray’s return to WWE at the “Royal Rumble” pay-per-view under the “Bubba Ray Dudley” name, rumors surfaced The Dudley Boyz could be on their way back to WWE. However, nothing ultimately surfaced, despite teases of a match between them and the team of Luke Harper and Erick Rowan.

In a new interview with Sports Illustrated, Bully Ray and his “brother” Devon (Hughes) both detail their desires to return to WWE.

“For us not to be back there, knowing that we’re in the best shape we’ve ever been in, I don’t understand it,” said Hughes. “We’re better now than we were ten or fifteen years ago.

“I understand that they want the future. But without the older generation that paved the way for these young guys to come, you’re not going to have it. Wrestling is a lost art, so you need the older guys like us to help show the younger guys how it’s done. I don’t understand it, though I know it needs to be on their terms.”

Interestingly enough, Ray, real name Mark LoMonaco, recently returned to TNA full-time as the company’s on-air authority figure. That did not stop him from expressing his desires to return to WWE.

“Take the Dudley Boyz and put them back in WWE, and you’d add instant credibility to the tag division,” said LoMonaco. “The great thing about the Dudleys is we can work with any team and we can work any style. Not only will we help one team get over and learn and get better, but we can help all of them. It seems pretty simple to me – having the Dudleys back in the WWE is best for business, so I don’t have a really great answer for why we are not there. Only they know.”

“You would think the most decorated tag team in the history of WWE would be able to go back into a company and breathe life into the tag division,” said LoMonaco, who takes great pride in the fact the Dudleys wore tag team gold on ten separate occasions while employed by the WWE. “It may never happen, but you never say never. It could be right around the corner.”