Public Enemy vs The Dudley Boyz

[Guest Steve J. Rogers]

With Rocco Rock's passing I thought how strange it was that you had two teams, The Public Enemy and The Dudley Boyz (well the D-Von and Bubba version) that were the ultimate ECW tag teams, both had the same style of "garbage, extreme" wrestling, and both had an affinity for the useage of tables.

 

Yet the PE faded from any sort of heat once they left while the Dud's have had great success with the WWF/E.

 

Of course the reason is simple. When the PE went to WCW they were transformed into a hip-hop version of The Bushwackers. Not taken seriously at all. Had a one week run as a fluke tag team champs, but otherwise just treated like a comic joke.

 

Their WWF treatment was even worse, and the sad thing is their backstage heat was turned into an angle and they were turfed soon after, never to be heard from in the mainstream wrestling (WWF, WCW) again.

 

On the other hand, the Duds, fresh off a hot run in ECW including a final reign as champs their last day there, made an imeadiate impact by "introducing" themselves to the then WWF champs, the Rock and Sock Connection (leading to Rock's "It..it...it... DOESNT MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!" line) and were imeaditatly tossed into the Main Event Tag Team picture with PPV bouts against the APA and Hardyz right from the start. Culmulating in them (as heels despite getting more and more face pops, neccesitating their eventual turn that summer) winning the titles from the NAO at No Way Out and going into the first of their two times defending the belts at Wrestlemania.

 

Don't really have much of a point I guess, its just two teams with very simillar styles being treated starkly different once going big time

 

Steve

[Guest deadbeater]

The difference is that The Dudleys are bump machines, and cut better promos.

[Guest The Czech Republic]

However, the Public Enemy had a better theme song in ECW. Nothing like the old-school hip-hop. Here come the hotstepper, turn it up...

[Guest deadbeater]

A theme song that the WWE most likely won't use.

[Guest Kagato Otaku]

You're remembering a different Duds' debut than I do.

 

The one I remember had them interfering in a useless SD! Tag Gauntlet match and attacking people with weak 2x4 shots. Then a Lillian Garcia interview where Bubba acts like even more of a stuttering idiot than usual and ends with D-Von HA! reciting HA! the Dudleyville commandments HA!.

 

They wrestled a boring series with the Acolytes where they were verbally buried by Faarooq & Bradshaw on RAW, in a feud that culminated in a UPN joke. They weren't on the next PPV and were pretty much a non-factor at Survivor Series, losing to a team made up of pimps. Not good.

 

They had a good showing in the Armageddon tag battle royale, and THEN they fought Rock 'n' Sock. That began their build as a legitimate tag threat.

 

You're painting the Duds early tenure as a lot rosier than it really was. The majority of it was fairly mediocre Heat and Metal matches.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

The Reason that the Duds's did well and Public Enemy didn't is simple...

 

Public Enema sucked.

[Guest evilhomer]

I didn't see enough of PE to totally comment, but from what I saw (the WCW run) they were just made to be a total joke comedy team. That gets you face pops, but never into the main event.

[Guest nikowwf]

Dudleys have some talent, so when they got a chance, they got over.

 

Public enemy sucked worse than anyone I could imagine, so they did not. I'm not trying to flame. They really did suck to an unbelievable degree.

 

Niko

[Guest Mad Dog]

Until and even a bit later than their first tag title run the Dudleyz were nothing in the WWE. The table gimmick is what got them over.

 

Public Enemy was extremely over in WCW and got a short run with the belts. They didn't have as many as the Dudleyz but this was back when titles meant something.

[Guest subliminal_animal]

What pimps did the Dudz lose to at Survivor Series?

 

And I think Part of the reason were the PE were short and fat. Plus if Rocco was 49, he would've been in his forties for most of the nineties, which was when PE were active in the main feds. That's pretty old escpecially for a hiphop street hood.

 

What was the deal with their heat they had in the WWF anyway?