10 Most Successful Outsiders In WWE History
7. The Dudley Boyz
The premier stars of ECW at the time of their defection to the WWE, Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley, were running amok as the Dudley Boyz, coming straight out of Dudleyville and relocating to the world where sports entertainment was king. The dynamic twosome laid waste to everyone in their path in ECW and had some of the strongest heat this side of the 1980s, calling elderly grandmothers in the crowd the worst thing you can call a woman, all the while picking fights with grown men and teenagers in the stands.
How on Earth could a team so naturally vile and despised exist in the WWE, even during the curse word-laden Attitude Era? Somehow, someway, the Dudley Boyz thrived in their new environment. Bubba Ray tried to explain to Vince that they werent necessarily nice people in their personas, and Vince wisely told them to tailor their act for their new crowd. The Dudley Boyz became vicious in their actions. The tandem put 80 year-old Mae Young through a table on two occasions, including once off the stage. These actions spoke much louder than those dreadful words they uttered in ECW.
The Dudley Boyz reached new heights of popularity, largely thanks to their use of tables on the main shows. Bubba Ray would fall into a trance after D-Von brought in the furniture, putting their myriad of opponents through them for great agony. Their greatest claim to fame, however, would be their iconic series of matches with two pairs of WWE creations, the Hardy Boyz and Edge & Christian, as these six men put their bodies on the line in their epic set of Tables, Ladders, and Chairs matches in the early-00s.