D-Von Dudley On If Vince McMahon Was Ever Racist Backstage

D-Von Dudley says he never had issues with most of WWE’s top executives over racial issues including Vince McMahon, Michael Hayes, Triple H and more. Dudley pushed back in a new video on Jim Ross’ denying ever saying anything racist toward him, but in the same video he shot down speculation that other executives had done similar things.

Dudley spoke in the video about people assuming that he had been talking about McMahon, Hayes, Triple H, John Laurinaitis, or Pat Patterson. He denied each name as having been people he had issues with over race, and you can see highlights below:

On Not Having Issues With the Other Executives:

“When I said this before on your channel going back, people thought I was talking about Michael Hayes. They thought I was talking about Vince, John Laurinaitis, Triple H, even Pat Patterson. Everybody’s throwing names, throwing names. And it had nothing to do with any of those individuals. And I’m I’m going to go down the road, I’m going to go down the line here.

“Michael Hayes helped me as a producer. Michael Hayes basically guided me as a producer. Even with the main events, when he didn’t have to and he had his own stuff, Michael was there for me. Triple H was the one that gave me my job as a producer. Triple H was the one that basically said, ‘Hey, listen. We want to offer you a producers’s job. What do you think?’ And you know, he was there for me. He — look, Hunter went all out for me.”

On Vince McMahon and Allegations Of WWE Being Racist:

“As far as Vince goes, I’ve never had an issue with him with race whatsoever. And you hear stories all the time about WWE being racist or what have you amongst Latinos or Black [people] and this and that. And these are some of the fans, because their favorites aren’t being pushed or being used the way they feel that they should. So, it’s got to be a racism problem.

“Me working behind the scenes, I realized that it had nothing to do with race. It had everything to do with the person getting over and making it.”

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit D-Von Dudley with a h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.