D-Von Dudley explains why he wasn't at WrestleMania XL.
Dudley's long-time tag team partner, Bubba Ray Dudley, played a big role at the event, as he served as the special guest referee for the Philadelphia Street Fight between The Pride (Bobby Lashley & The Street Profits) and The Final Testament (Akam, Karrion Kross & Rezar).
While speaking to Gabby LaSpisa for a new interview, Dudley joked that it would've taken a full decade to walk down the ramp at WrestleMania if he had taken part in the festivities.
“I thought it was great. I would’ve loved to be out there, people have to understand, sometimes the body doesn’t move the way it wants to. We had wrestled at the ECW Arena like two or three nights prior to WrestleMania. I’m not really in the ring like that much anymore, so at the end of the match, I’m shutting down, like my back and legs were killing me. I had someone ask me, ‘Why weren’t you there?’ I said, ‘Man, if I would’ve walked down that ramp, it would’ve been WrestleMania 50 by the time I got to the bottom of it. I was sore as hell man. We didn’t even do that much at ECW arena with Tommy Dreamer and Onita, but it was enough where I was sore the next two or three days. Certain things like that, I love it when Bubba represents the family and goes out there and does what we does. The great thing is that people were chanting, ‘Where’s D’Von?’ That’s even better, it’s not like I’m being forgotten.”
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