WWE Hall of Famer D-Von Dudley’s pro wrestling career began back in 1992, but has sadly and quietly come to an end.
D-Von Dudley officially announced his retirement from professional wrestling on a recent episode of the “Table Talk” podcast with Mo Lightning.
“You know, I’m just — and I’ve told Lindsey this before. Even though I am little frustrated, I was a little frustrated of not continuing to wrestle for that one more year that I wanted, I’m extremely happy now being a producer and not wrestling. I have officially announced that I’ve hung it up and I’m done, you know, except for different appearances that they may want me to do on the show, but no more wrestling. No more fighting for the titles. None of that anymore. I’m done. I’m officially done.”
“I’ve had my fifteen minutes of fame and it was a good ride, it really was. The old timers used to tell me, ‘Don’t blink, because when you do it’s over. It goes that fast.’ And it did feel like it went really, really fast. But a 28-year career — always being on top and never taking a break, regardless of the injuries or anything like that — we did it, you know? And I think Bubba said it best during our Hall of Fame speech. You know, we did it our way. We went out there and conquered. We became synonymous in terms of using the name when tag team wrestling comes up. We will always be put in with some of the best and arguably some people will say we were the best. But I’m just happy that when you do mention tag teams, the Dudley Boyz names come up.”
D-Von Dudley’s final match took place back on December 17th, 2017 at a House of Glory event where he and Bubba Ray Dudley faced The Hardy Boyz, Private Party, and Santana & Ortiz in a fatal four-way match.
You can listen to the entire episode of Table Talk featuring D-Von Dudley and his announcement that he has officially retired from wrestling by clicking HERE.
Table Talk’s host sent out a statement following the episode featuring D-Von’s retirement announcement clarifying that while he had previously retired, the door to return was always open. This is now no longer the case.
“D-Von did retire years back. From full-time competition. But, as stated on previous episodes, he was always willing to return for the right storyline or angle. This week, that willingness changed, and as you can hear for yourself in our latest episode, he called it quits on the physicality. D-Von invites everyone to check out next week’s episode of Table Talk where he promises to address the confusion.”
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(Thanks to Pro Wrestling Sheet for the quotes.)
