Bubba Ray Dudley

Bubba Ray Dudley
Ray in 2016
Birth nameMark LoMonaco
Born (1971-07-14) July 14, 1971 (age 53)
Queens, New York City, U.S.
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Brother Ray[1]
Bubba Ray Dudley[2][3]
Buh Buh Ray Dudley[1]
Bully Ray[4]
Mongo Vyle[1]
The Terminator[1]
Billed height6 ft 3 in (191 cm)[2]
Billed weight280 lb (127 kg)[2]
Billed fromDudleyville
(as Bubba Ray Dudley/Buh Buh Ray Dudley)[1]
Hell's Kitchen, New York
(as Mongo Vyle/Bully Ray)[5]
The Metropolitan area of Dudleyville
(as Buh Buh Ray Dudley)
New York, New York
(as Brother Ray/Bully Ray)[4]
Debut1991

Mark LoMonaco (born July 14, 1971), known by the ring names Bubba Ray Dudley (also spelled Buh-Buh Ray Dudley), Brother Ray and Bully Ray, is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for being one-half of The Dudley Boyz tag team (also known as Team 3D), where he competed alongside Devon Hughes (known by the ring names D-Von Dudley, Brother Devon and Devon), during his tenures in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), the latter of which they are also signed to under "Legends" contracts.[6]

Debuting in 1991, LoMonaco came to prominence when he joined ECW as a member of The Dudley Brothers in 1995, going by the ring name Bubba Ray Dudley. He formed a tag team with Devon Hughes (known as D-Von Dudley) called The Dudley Boyz, who became eight-time ECW World Tag Team Champions. In 1999, they moved to the WWF (now WWE) and became eight-time World Tag Team Champions, as well as one-time WWE Tag Team Champions and WCW World Tag Team Champions. An accomplished tag team wrestler, LoMonaco is considered one-half of one of the major teams that revived tag team wrestling during the Attitude Era.[7] He also held the WWE Hardcore Championship eight times before leaving in 2005. LoMonaco and Hughes joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) later that year, changed their team name to Team 3D in addition to changing their respective ring names to Brother Ray and Brother Devon, and became one-time NWA World Tag Team Champions and two-time TNA World Tag Team Champions. After the team disbanded in 2010, LoMonaco competed as a singles wrestler under the name Bully Ray and went on to hold the TNA World Heavyweight Championship twice. He left TNA in 2015, and returned to WWE alongside Hughes as The Dudley Boyz for two years, before joining Ring of Honor (ROH), until 2020.

In addition to twenty three tag team championships won between ECW, WWE, TNA and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), LoMonaco has won thirty six titles between ECW, WWE, TNA and NJPW factoring in the aforementioned tag team championships, eight WWE Hardcore Championships, two TNA World Championships, and one ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (held with The Briscoe Brothers). LoMonaco was inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame in 2014 and the WWE Hall of Fame in 2018 as part of Team 3D and The Dudley Boyz respectively.

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  6. ^ "D-Von Dudley Confirms He and Bully Ray Are Under Legends Contract With WWE". WrestleZone. September 22, 2023.
  7. ^ "Ranking the Best Tag Teams and Stables of WWE's Attitude Era". Bleacher Report.