Bubba Ray Dudley

Mark LoMonaco (born July 14, 1971) is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to TNA Wrestling, where he performs under the ring name Bully Ray.

He also makes sporadic appearances for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).

He is best known for being one-half of the Dudley Boyz tag team, where he competed under the ring name Bubba Ray Dudley 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.

Mark LoMonaco was born in the Queens borough of New York City on July 14, 1971.

He moved to Dix Hills, New York, in his youth and graduated from Half Hollow Hills East High School, where he was a member of the track and football team.

Debuting in 1991, LoMonaco came to prominence when he joined ECW as a member of The Dudley Brothers in 1995.

He formed a tag team with D-Von Dudley called The Dudley Boyz, who became eight-time ECW World Tag Team Champions.

LoMonaco trained under Johnny Rodz, and debuted in 1991.

He used the ring name Mongo Vyle with the gimmick of a biker billed from Hell's Kitchen who was inspired by The Nasty Boys, The Road Warriors, and Maxx Payne.

LoMonaco received a tryout with Extreme Championship Wrestling in September 1995, appearing as Mongo, the bodyguard of Bill Alfonso.

After impressing ECW owner Paul Heyman by taking a chokeslam from wrestler 911, LoMonaco was hired.

He was recast as Buh Buh Ray Dudley, the stuttering, dancing, overweight, hillbilly member of the sprawling Dudley family.

The unusual spelling of "Bubba" was a result of his stutter.

In saying his name, Buh-Buh would stutter, causing him to say "my name is Buh-buh-buh-buh" until Big Dick Dudley struck him in the chest, at which point he would shout "my name is Bubba Ray Dudley".

The fans embraced the comical Dudley boys and during Buh Buh's matches would chant "Buh Buh Buh Buh".

The spelling eventually stuck.

On April 13, 1996, at Massacre on Queens Boulevard, D-Von Dudley debuted in ECW and began feuding with the other members of the Dudley Family (his kayfabe half-brothers), claiming that their comedic antics were not the way true Dudleys should act.

D-Von eliminated Dances With Dudley, Dudley Dudley, and Chubby Dudley before joining forces with Buh Buh Ray, Big Dick, Sign Guy Dudley, and Joel Gertner.

Known collectively as Dudley Boyz, Buh Buh Ray and D-Von dominated the ECW tag team division, winning the ECW World Tag Team Championship a record eight times and defeating the four major tag teams in ECW: The Public Enemy, The Eliminators, The Gangstas, and Sabu and Rob Van Dam.

Buh Buh Ray, D-Von, and Gertner all achieved a degree of infamy for their vitriolic interviews, which antagonized audiences to a point of near riot.

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.

They are considered one of the major teams that revived tag team wrestling during the Attitude Era.

In 1999, Buh Buh Ray and D-Von left ECW and joined the World Wrestling Federation, where the "Buh Buh" stutter-spelling of "Bubba Ray Dudley" was rescinded.

Throughout 2000 and 2001, the Dudley Boyz engaged in a three-way feud for the WWF Tag Team Championship with The Hardy Boyz and Edge & Christian.

The feud incorporated three critically acclaimed Tables, Ladders, and Chairs matches, the first at WrestleMania 2000, second at SummerSlam (2000), and the third at WrestleMania X-Seven.

While they were initially heels, one of the things Bubba Ray was known for was driving women through tables including WWE Divas Terri, Mae Young, Lita, Trish Stratus, Tori, Torrie Wilson, Stacy Keibler and Jazz.

The Dudley Boyz were soon cheered by the crowd and were turned face in early 2000.

On the December 28, 2000 episode of SmackDown!, Bubba Ray received a title shot against WWF Champion Kurt Angle, which he lost.

In early 2001, The Dudleys were joined in the WWF by Spike Dudley.

In mid-2001, the Dudley Boyz turned heel once again by joining The Alliance, a large stable of former ECW and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) wrestlers led by Shane McMahon and Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley who attempted to take over the WWF (Spike, along with other ECW alumni, did not join The Alliance).

The ECW-WCW invasion ended at the Survivor Series, when five WWF wrestlers defeated five Alliance wrestlers in a match to determine the ownership of the WWF.

The Alliance disbanded and its members left the WWF, but the Dudley Boyz retained their jobs due to their possession of the WWF Tag Team Championship, which they had unified with the WCW Tag Team Championship that night.

Following WrestleMania X8, the WWF was renamed "World Wrestling Entertainment" (WWE) in May 2002 and the roster was divided into two brands: Raw and SmackDown!.

Dudley also held the WWE Hardcore Championship 10 times before both men left in 2005.

They joined TNA later that year, becoming 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.

They were inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame in 2014 and the WWE Hall of Fame in 2018.

LoMonaco himself has won 36 titles between ECW, WWE, Impact, NJPW and ROH, factoring in the aforementioned tag team championships, 10 WWE Hardcore Championships, two TNA World Championships, and one ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (held with The Briscoe Brothers).

He left TNA in 2015, and The Dudley Boyz returned to WWE for two years before joining Ring of Honor (ROH) until 2020.

The Dudley Boyz are recognized as one of the most prolific tag teams in professional wrestling history, with 23 world tag team championships between ECW, WWE, Impact, and NJPW.