On AEW Commentator Jim Ross’s podcast, Grillin’ JR, he spoke in reverence of Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley’s famous third, Spike Dudley. To Ross, Spike contributed far more than what wrestling fans know of.
Jim Ross also spoke about a bump that took Spike Dudley off the card of Unforgiven 2003 when La Resistance missed the table on an episode of Raw when they tried to throw him over the top rope and threw a table.
Scared the hell out of me, because I thought that there was no way little Spike was going to be able to endure and stand that bump,” said Jim Ross. “I was in Grand Rapids at a Deer Camp [when he] got hurt. I was there with Austin doing some vignettes and videos. So I wasn’t on site when that occurred, but I just thought there was no way. There was no way that the little guy — and this proves that Spike Dudley was one of the toughest guys we ever signed. What a wonderful human being he was and is. I felt essentially the same feeling that I had when Mick [Foley fell off] the Hell In A Cell in June of 1998 with Undertaker. I just didn’t think Spike could withstand it, I didn’t think any human could withstand it. But he’s tougher than a two-dollar streak. What an asset the was to our company, he contributed much more than people will ever know. Spike Dudley helped the Dudley brand, and as we know, The Dudleys became one of the most successful tag teams in all of professional wrestling.
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Spike Dudley’s career saw him being a sponge for pain, most famously suffering an onslaught in the debut of Brock Lesnar on a March, 2002 episode of Monday Night Raw. Dudley’s last match was in December, 2015 against Jason Axe and Jimmy Olsen in 2CW.
