"The Dudley's never made it as single wrestlers."

[mrbananagrabber]

Now look what you did, JBL. You've upset the Bully. I hope you're happy.

[Deleted]

I think he tweeted last night that a follow-up line got cut.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Let's be honest, up until about 2 years ago, he was right. Nobody saw Ray's heel run getting as good as it did.

[Deleted]

In the WWE where it matters no they didn't

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Bubba Ray and D-Von never made it as singles guys.

Bully Ray and Devon, on the other hand...

[Deleted]

And JBL issues an apology

Anytime you do a ton of tv every week you are bound to make mistakes. I made one this past week on Smackdown and tried to correct it on air but wasn't able to get it done sufficiently, so I want to apologize to my good friends the Dudleys openly-and to all you twitter police so you can get out of Momma's basement and enjoy the weekend.

I was trying to make the point that a lot of tag teams never make it, or try to make it, as singles wrestlers and listed the Killer Bees, LOD and Dudley's (and I think Hart Foundation). Sometimes on air you try to go somewhere entertaining and you get caught and try to correct it. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

I realized as soon as I said it that both the Dudley's and Hart Foundation had become huge singles stars-I was thinking about my time in WWE where Dudley's had been mainly just a tag team-and one of greatest of all time in what I think was greatest era of tag teams in history when you had Edge/Christian, NAO, DX, Dudley's, APA, LOD, Hardy's and more all at the same time.

Bubba and Devon have been good friends for a long time and I have the utmost respect and love for them, if I had made the mistake on someone else-I would just chalk it up to live TV and not worry about it. But, these guys are good friends and with the Twitter police loving to correct me I thought I would just make it public and explain how it happened.

What I hate more than anything is this becoming an issue and taking away from great work in the ring, as my job is to do my best to tell stories about talent in an attempt to help them get over.

Believe me, it won't be the last time I make a mistake, I fire stuff out rapidly sometimes with references I don't plan on making as a way to try and be entertaining and react to the events in front of me.

However, the Dudley's first day with the APA Bubba hit me so hard with a 2x4 that I owed him a receipt anyway!!!

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[Metalheadbanger Man]

I took as he meant during their WWE singles runs.

[Sajoa Moe]

I can't take JBl entirely seriously due to his blatant misuse of apostrophe's.

[bob]

Jan 19, 2013 9:06:52 GMT -5 Metalheadbanger Man said:

I took as he meant during their WWE singles runs.

That's what I took it to mean.

But even if he didn't Devon hasn't yet, but he's still early in his TNA singles run so it could turn around for him.

As for Bully, I think he has "made it" with the wedding to Brooke...even if I think he's been horrible as a face.

[Hawk Hart]

Jan 19, 2013 9:28:54 GMT -5 Sajoa Moe said:

I can't take JBl entirely seriously due to his blatant misuse of apostrophe's.

And "Twitter Police." It baffles me that people STILL don't understand that lines like that have to be taken with a grain of salt because until WWE owns TNA, it doesn't matter in their canon.

[Essential1]

He doesn't even need to explain himself.

[Jimmy]

Jan 19, 2013 9:06:52 GMT -5 Metalheadbanger Man said:

I took as he meant during their WWE singles runs.

Same.

[lemonyellowson]

he's right

[agent817]

I actually thought that Reverend D-Von was a decent gimmick.

[Zombie Mod]

in wwf/e they didnt do well when they were split.

elsewhere is another matter, but on wwe tv elsewhere doesnt matter because it only exists when they need it to.

[The Portable Stove]

I thought Bubba could've done a lot better but yeah. They weren't ready to split just yet.

[Deleted]

I noticed it too, and thought it was just a tongue-in-cheek shot at Bully Ray, nothing more. I wish he didn't feel the need to issue an apology on something so small, but that's twitter for ya.

[The Heenan Family]

I think JBL has to apologize for something he says on air at least once a month.

[CM Dazz]

Jan 19, 2013 11:26:55 GMT -5 The Portable Stove said:

I thought Bubba could've done a lot better but yeah. They weren't ready to split just yet.

At the time, I really though Bubba was on his way to becoming the next Mick Foley...

[Mr. Socko's Brother]

Jan 19, 2013 11:26:55 GMT -5 The Portable Stove said:

I thought Bubba could've done a lot better but yeah. They weren't ready to split just yet.

I feel that one of the problems with WWE is that they don't give the talent as much creative input as they should. They micromanage.

Here's an example: in one Botchamania during an "Everybody Talks Too Much" segment, ADR had finished cutting a promo. It was a good promo, it was perfectly fine on its own, and then somebody off camera tells Del Rio "Wink!" So he winks.

Yeah, somebody apparently felt that "You must f***ing wink every f***ing time you talk or you're going to ruin the whole Mexican aristocrat gimmick, you idiot!"

If they're that bad about getting one guy's promo to go exactly a certain way, you better believe that they aren't gonna let many guys write their own material.

For all of TNA's faults, they aren't as bad in that respect. The idea for the Bully Ray character, the Twittah Machine, bragging about his calves, all of that? Pretty sure those were all Bubba's ideas.

And I know for sure that "Joseph Park" was something Abyss thought up himself.

So if the 'E had allowed Bubba Ray some more creative freedom, he very well could have made it as a singles wrestler a lot sooner.