WWE: Paul Heyman's 10 Greatest Protegees

10. Dudley Boyz

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhcrxy_the-dudley-boyz-paul-heyman-and-rob-van-dam-segment-smackdown-4-22-2004_sport Ten years prior to breaking the Undertaker's streak at Wrestlemania, Paul Heyman was managing the less-than-impressive John Heidenreich as they attempted to defeat and destroy the Deadman. Once that proved unsuccessful, Heyman decided to head back "home" to his ECW roots and work with Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley in an attempt to defeat the Undertaker. A strange and short-lived pairing, it was most notable for a most macabre WWE moment. After kidnapping Paul Bearer to raise The Undertaker's ire, Heyman's pairing with the Dudley Boyz turned deadly when at June 2004's Great American Bash pay-per-view, Bearer's character was loaded into a glass-enclosed chamber that was filled with cement, as Heyman advised that The Undertaker should throw the match in order to save his manager. One of the little-discussed most bizarre moments of the post-Attitude era, after Undertaker won the match against both Dudleys, he was summarily forced to pull the lever one final time to suffocate Bearer. In a partnership made notable by such a wild occurrence, it is thus noteworthy enough to be on this list.