The match took place on an episode of “WWE Raw” that aired on June 12, 2000 and saw the Dudleys face Vince and Shane McMahon. Bully Ray claims that Vince didn’t arrive until 30 minutes before it went live, so they had no window to practice a spot where Bully would try to hit Vince with the notorious Superbomb.
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“Vince McMahon is a very heavy, dense man who, no matter what he’s done in the wrestling ring, doesn’t know the art of going light,” the veteran said during an episode of “Busted Open: The Master’s Class.” Bully explained that there was a lot to do to prepare people for the top rope powerbomb and due to lack of practice, he was worried about the venue.
“Vince, at that moment, would have been the heaviest person I’ve ever had on my shoulders, in my hands, and with a completely unbalanced weight, not knowing how to make himself light!” he added. “I tell Vince something like, ‘Vince, we have to do something!’ ‘No, we’ll be fine, buddy! You will, don’t worry, once we get out!'”
Bully convinced Vince to at least let Bully lift him in the hallway outside Vince’s office, where he realized that McMahon was heavier than he thought.
“I knew something was going to go wrong,” he said.
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Not content with moving forward with the spot with Vince, Bully then contacted Road Dogg and X-Pac, who also had a role in the upcoming match. The members of D-Generation Vince, however, would already be in the Superbomb position when this occurred, and Bully implored Road Dogg not to hit D-Von too hard, or he would fall on top of Vince and disrupt the balancing act.
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“The only time I’d been nervous doing this place before,” Bully said. “And if you go back and look at it, Vince is up there and he’s perfectly fine, Road Dogg runs in and nails D-Von in the back enough for D-Von to move forward.
“And just that little push (you can’t beat gravity, inertia, and momentum) pushes Vince’s weight towards me, and we fall backwards, ass over the kettle, from the top rope to the concrete; we drop Vince McMahon right on his head.”
Unfortunately, the Dudley Boyz learned the hard way not to mess with Vince McMahon.
D-Von Dudley and Bubba Ray Dudley hit Sin Cara with a double team move during a match on “RAW.” -WWE
Bully remembers that Vince played the incident as if nothing had happened, but it turns out that there are, in fact, consequences when you let the boss down.
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“Disaster! Vince crashes and burns, tries to tell us that he’s totally fine, there won’t be any heat from it, everything’s fine,” Bully said, before ominously recalling how both he and D-Von were thrown into a dumpster on the following “SmackDown.”
“They put us in a dumpster and dropped us 15 feet from the stage,” he said. “And D-Von didn’t tell me; my wife never told me after 20 years of marriage that she was claustrophobic. D-Von had an anxiety attack when she walked into that dumpster.”
Bully recalled having to hold D-Von’s hand while they were in the dumpster and trying to make him imagine it was a roller coaster.
“When that dumpster hits, you see the lid open and D-Von goes flying, gasping for air.” he added. “The disaster was dropping Vince. The disaster was putting D-Von in a dumpster when he was claustrophobic, and that was our receipt.”
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