D-Von Dudley on Him Returning to the Ring for One Final Match for TNA Bound For Glory 2025

As noted before, this past Sunday’s TNA Slammiversary 2025 event in Elmont, New York featured WWE Hall of Famer and former TNA talent Bully Ray making a surprise appearance. Ray issued a challenge to The Hardys for one final match between them and Team 3D at TNA’s Bound For Glory 2025 event this October. This segment was notable for D-Von Dudley being absent from it.

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured D-Von Dudley as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Dudley’s thoughts about him not being worried about getting injured by returning to the ring. This interview was held prior to TNA’s Slammiversary event.

“Is there moments where I feel like if I get back in the ring, I’m going to get hurt? No, I don’t. I have the wrestling school in Winter Park, Florida, which is doing extremely well. And the great thing about that is, is that I roll around with some of the guys sometimes in the ring. So every once in a while I take bumps and I feel good when I’m in there. So there’s no hesitation in how I think or feel about what I do in that ring now.”

Dudley also gave his thoughts about if he were to wrestle again, it would only be for a final match and not as a final run for his wrestling career and The Hardys being his ideal opponents for a retirement match.

“But, you know, at 50 years old, I don’t want to go in here and do it, like I said, until I’m 70 and 80. That’s not going to happen. If we were to do one more match, it would be the last one and that would be it. There is no one more, ‘Can you come back one more time, one more time?’ No, because — and I tell this to everybody when they ask — I go, every time I do one more time, that one more time is over, let a year go by, ‘Hey, you guys look great, you can go another match.’ No, we can’t, stop, stop.

If I was to do anything in the ring again, it would have to be with Matt and Jeff,” D-Von said. “And, you know, I would say Edge and Christian too, but they’re in the other, you know, organization, AEW, and I don’t think that would ever happen. When the opportunity came, when Edge left WWE and went to AEW, you had Christian and Edge there, and then The Hardys were there. And it was like, we were wondering why, you know, Tony [Khan], who is a huge fan of the business and always had it, why wouldn’t he take the opportunity to be the one to put those three teams together and to do that, but he never did. So I think that opportunity is lost.

But, you know, if I was to come back and do something, it would have to be with The Hardys. And those are the only two I trust. Even though I think Jeff is out of his damn mind [laughs], but those are the only two I would trust [with] my body on the line and to go in there one more time.”

This upcoming match will only be the fourth time that Dudley will have wrestled since 2016. Dudley had suffered a stroke in 2020 and had underwent spinal in 2022.

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com