Vince McMahon was no stranger to stepping into the ring along with his biggest stars, especially during WWE’s Attitude Era, when The Dudley Boyz were putting grown men through tables frequently. Naturally, McMahon ended up clashing with the lads from Dudleyville, and while looking back at the best disasters of his profession, Bully Ray recalled by chance dropping the boss on his head.
The match took place on an episode of “WWE Raw” that aired on June 12, 2000, and saw the Dudleys tackle Vince and Shane McMahon. Bully Ray claims Vince didn’t arrive until half-hour before it was meant to air live, so that they had no window to practice a spot that might see Bully try to hit Vince with the notorious Superbomb.
“Vince McMahon is a really heavy, dense man who – regardless of what he’s ever done within the wrestling ring – he doesn’t know the art of creating himself light,” the veteran said during an episode of “Busted Open: The Master’s Class.” Bully explained that there was so much that went into setting people up for the highest rope powerbomb, and with the dearth of practice, he was concerned concerning the spot.
“Vince, at the moment, would’ve been absolutely the heaviest person I even have ever had on my shoulders, in my hands, and complete unbalanced weight, not knowing how you can make himself light!” he added. “I’m telling Vince like: ‘Vince, we gotta do something!’ ‘No, we’ll be effective, pal! You may do it – don’t fret, once we get on the market!'”
Bully convinced Vince to not less than let Bully lift him up within the hallway in front of Vince’s office, where he realized that McMahon was heavier than he thought.
“I knew something was gonna go fallacious,” he said.
The Superbomb attempt ends in disaster
Not content to simply go ahead with the spot with Vince, Bully then checked in with Road Dogg and X-Pac, who also had a task within the match to return. The D-Generation X members (then a part of The McMahon-Helmsley Regime) were purported to come out and save Vince by interfering within the Superbomb attempt, running in to hit D-Von and breaking up the spot. Vince, nonetheless, would already be up the Superbomb position when this occurred, and Bully implored Road Dogg to not hit D-Von too hard, or he would fall into Vince and disrupt the balancing act.
“The one time I’d been nervous doing this spot before,” Bully said. “And in the event you return and also you watch it, Vince is up there and he’s up there perfectly, Road Dogg runs in, nails D-Von within the back barely enough for D-Von to push forward.
“And just that little little bit of a push – you’ll be able to’t beat gravity, inertia, momentum – pushes Vince’s weight towards me, and we go toppling backwards, ass over tea kettle, from the highest rope to the concrete; dropped Vince McMahon right on his head.”
The Dudley Boyz unfortunately learned the hard method to not mess up with Vince McMahon
Bully remembers Vince playing off the incident as if nothing had happened, but in turns on the market are indeed consequences whenever you drop the boss.
“Disaster! Vince crashes and burns, he tries to inform us that he’s totally effective, there’s not gonna be any heat from it – all is sweet,” Bully said, before ominously recalling how each he and D-Von were put in a dumpster the next “SmackDown.”
“They put us in a dumpster and dropped us 15 feet off 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 he went into that dumpster.”
Bully recalled having to carry D-Von’s hand while they were within the dumpster and attempting to make him imagine it was a rollercoaster ride.
“When that dumpster hits, you see the quilt of the dumpster pop off, and D-Von come flying out, 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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