Bully Ray Recalls Accidentally Finding Out Dudleys Were Winning ECW Tag Team Titles

Bully Ray had multiple runs with the ECW Tag Team Championships, and he says he found out his first reign was happening by accident. The WWE Hall of Famer held the ECW Tag Team Titles a record eight times with D-Von Dudley during the company’s run, with their first reign starting at ECW Hostile City Showdown in March of 1997. They defeated The Eliminators to capture the titles.

Bully Ray told the story of that win on the latest Master’s Class episode of Busted Open Radio. During the episode, Bully talked about how he found out from Taz, who inadvertently let it slip when he revealed the T-shirt for the event. You can see the highlights below (courtesy of F4W Online):

On How the Situation Came About:

“The only other memory I have of my first championship was from a T-shirt. The ECW Dojo was in Long Island, New York. The ECW Dojo was ran by Taz and Perry Saturn. I also had a quote-unquote office in the Dojo because I helped out with a lot of things behind the scenes with ECW, much like Tommy did. I kind of came up with the I got the arenas for the building, I did the scheduling for the building, blah blah blah.”

On Learning That He & D-Von Were Winning:

“Taz was in charge of designing T-shirts. Taz designed the very first Barely Legal T-shirt, the one with him and Sabu face-to-face with the date. Now, on the back of that T-shirt was the entire lineup of the card. The T-shirts came to the ECW Dojo before the Dudleys had won their first Tag Team Championships on March 15th. So as Taz now, I’m a young boy still just getting my feet wet. Me and D’Von are, you know, we’re starting to hit. Taz holds up the T-shirt to look at it, to show everybody there.”

“And when he turns the T-shirt around, it says the Dudley Boys Champions versus the Eliminators challengers. And I went ‘huh,’ and he turned the shirt around, he said, ‘You’re not supposed to see that. Forget you even see that. Go f*ck yourself.’ In typical Taz fashion. And I was like, ‘Oh my God, we’re about to win the Tag Team Championships.’ And that’s my memories of my first championship, seeing it printed on the back of a T-shirt before we had ever won.”