Meanwhile, Ray’s former tag team partner D-Von Dudley expressed his admiration for Paul Heyman’s induction speech during the 2024 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony held earlier this month.
As D-Von was present at the arena during the ceremony, he was unsure which parts of Heyman’s speech had been censored for the television broadcast.
In a recent appearance on the “Gabby AF” podcast, Dudley said,
“His speech made me sweat. I thought the induction was great because Paul really did deserve it. Paul changed the face of professional wrestling, of course, along with the likes of Cactus Jack, and Terry Funk, and [Atsushi] Onita bringing that FMW style from Japan to the United States in which ECW was born. But with the ideas and the booking of Paul and how he ran that company, it was great, and how he gave a bunch of misfits an opportunity when other wrestling organizations wouldn’t have dared give us an opportunity, he gave and made us into stars.”