So it's one of these serious videos where we sit down so we can talk about it with the grammar test that it deserves. And before you get mad, we're not picking fun at the dully boys here. This is a series. You can go back in time right now or maybe even click a card that popped up on the screen here on YouTube where we did it for Kurt Engel. We're just trying to figure out who is the best and who maybe not is the best when it comes to wrestling. You can be more poetic than that. It was all based around Brett Hart's autobiography, which you should most definitely read, where he had a system to come up whether a sports entertainee or entertainer was good or not and he looked at in-ring ability, looked at promos and he looked at look, which is another stupid sentence, and he ranked the amount of ten. So again, Hulk Hogan, he gave a 10 out of 10 on pro-myability in-ring. I think he gave a 3, although he was very self-reflective as well. In ring, he gave himself a 10, I think pro-mobility, he went three or four or something like that, which I personally think is too low. Now, we have thrown some other attributes in there as well. And yeah, given that the internet decided they were going to focus on Baburay and Devon to try and figure out if they were a legendary tag team while I sat down Simon Miller with the Wock culture team. We basically tried to figure it out. As always, it's just an opinion you're going to have one of your own. Let's start off with the good stuff in the sense that there is no team in the history of professional wrestling that are more decorated than the Dudley Boys because they won championships all over the place and they're in the WW Hall of Fame. Now, I know some people like to go, but everybody's in the WW Hall of Fame. That is not true. I don't think we always need to be such negative Nancy's. It's an achievement, and at the very least the Dudley Boys deserve it. I mean, the longevity alone is something you have to give a round of applause to, but also do not forget their finishing move. The 3D, which Bubbao and Devon also went out of their way to protect. I think it was only the motor city machine guns that kicked out of it. I could be wrong about that, but the fact I have to think about it goes to show from day one till day end. They said, listen, this is our big maneuver. And if you are going to kick out of the one, two, we are going to make it mean something. And how many times we had that discussion in 2025? It's almost silly to call finishing moves, finishing moves. And I just finished watching a John Cena match.

He hit four AAs. Let's start mainly with the look and the present. I think the Dully Boys did this very well, because as soon as I said their name, I bet you can picture them in your mind and they were probably wearing that camouflage. Now, no, camouflage is not brand new to professional wrestling. but they sort of made it a little bit black and white, and they absolutely took an idea and they made it their own, and that is massively important. It's why Vince McMahon used to tell his wrestlers, you must do your entrance in the same way over and over again because he wanted to plant memories in your brain. Now, that is stupid because wrestling is a story-based form of entertainment, so if you got beaten up on a Sunday, you shouldn't be skipping to the ring on a Monday.

When it comes to the Dudley Boys and the stuff that they wore and the way they acted, I suppose, they absolutely made you go, I know who they are. Don't forget even when they first started off, they were essentially meant to be hillbillies,

and Barbara Ray especially, when Andy Moore actually, wore those massively thick glasses.

And they must have first started doing that in the late

90s, which is almost 30 years ago. So I think that makes my point quite nicely.

Now better than all of this is that Baba Ray and Devon looked like they could kick your ass

and that actually helped with their promos because while Baba could obviously go, if he was in

the best cosmetic shape you'd ever seen a wrestler ever being in, he wouldn't have been able to look at the fans and go, ha ha ha ha, you look like an absolute idiot. You look like you barely ever seen a treadmill, where of course the same things could be thrown back to him. Now, this goes down into a completely different pro wrestling argument. Just because somebody looks like they don't hit the gym, doesn't mean that one, they don't go to the gym because they're probably two, but of course they have a gas tank for days. When it comes to wrestling, you want to make sure that every single person is a different shape and a different size. Otherwise, it gets really boring. That's why I get so damn mad, or Puyovinot is out of shape. No, he's not, bro. I've seen him wrestle

matches the go over 40 minutes. Do you know how much cardio you need to do that? Stop being silly. The point is this. Bubba and Devon wanted like they could kill you, and he absolutely did. It was how the Devon had more of a solid physique, and given that a lot of their most iconic matches which we are going to talk about about, were they just totally breaking into, well, yeah, as soon as they did walk down the aisle, even a brand new wrestling fan would be able to go, I wouldn't want to mess with those guys, probably going to get in a little bit of trouble. So let's talk about that as well, what they were able to do in the ring. And yes, if you were going to cite many of their famous matches, You would probably go to the TLC matches, the ladder matches, the tables matches, and all these kind of

stipulation matches where they were absolutely brilliant, which brings us to WrestleMania 17. Now,

obviously we have to bring an Edging Christian and the Hardy Boys too, but what they did with that

table slats and chair stipulation completely changed the industry

forever. And as I sit here right now, October 25, 25 talking to you, there are upcoming

wrestlers that still talk about that max to say, well, I really would like to raise the bar even

higher. And there's a positive and negative to that. I think how many people walk through

the pro wrestling door and never even come close to leaving this kind of a mark. I mean, it really says something about what they were able to do. Bubba two in that thing comes across like a violent man and he goes crashing through four tables so we understood that it was a give and take and it was the same when they took on the Hardys in that table's match at the Ball Rumble 2000. I often think think you have to push these two things together, because going back to the whole

raising the bar idea again, where these two matches were done, nobody was ever going to look

at sports entertainment the same again, at least from a WW mainstream North American angle.

Nobody had seen anything like it.

And you do have to have a certain amount of skill to pull that off. Like if I was thrown in there, it would probably be dead. That one of the Rumble 2 is an absolute sprint as well with some near misses where you go, oh my gosh, I can't believe that almost happened. So yeah, this kind of summarises the Dudley Boys career, because if all of a sudden you watch this video and you decide, I'd love to go and watch one of their matches or a handful of their matches, you are going to go for the ones that have some kind of stipulation attached to them because that was their lane. And how many times have you heard pro wrestlers say that as well? If you have found something you're good at, push your strengths and hide your witnesses, so in no means of my cornerness of criticism, and in fact it's an absolute plus. They figured out what they were good at and they lent into it.

Now, of criticism, and in fact, it's an absolute plus. They figured out what they were good at and they lent into it. Now, of course, they could work straight tag team matches as well and they did this a lot, but this is when the debate comes into play. Did they make as much noise as the alternative as what they were doing? And I would imagine that most people would say no, probably not. Now, we use Cage match to try and give us a little bit of insight into this, their highest ranked non-crazy match was in May 2004 on Smackdown when they were taking on Ray Mysterio and RVD. Now, I didn't actually get round to watching this, but I don't remember it, and I'll hazard a guess, you probably don't remember it either. caveat to that however because given that they were in WWE for a large part of their career, well during that period,

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