TNA Bound For Glory Likely To Be D-Von Dudley's Retirement Match

Team 3D/The Dudleys are set to face The Hardys one last time at TNA Bound For Glory 2025, a match that could serve as the official end of D-Von Dudley’s in-ring career.

The multi-time tag team champion has wrestled just three times since 2016, and has overcome several health battles in recent years, including a stroke in 2020. Speaking with Chris Van Vliet on Insight (recorded pre-Slammiversary), the ECW legend noted that if he is to wrestle again, it will be his final 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,” D-Von said. “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.”

Bully Ray/Buh-Buh Ray Dudley threw the challenge out to The Hardys after Matt and Jeff regained the TNA World Tag Team Championships at Slammiversary on July 20, with the crowd chanting ‘Where is D-Von’ at Bully. Bully suggested that at Bound For Glory in October it would be the last time you would hear ‘D-Von, get the tables’.

On Insight, D-Von noted how he would want to face The Hardys in his final match, but lamented the fact that he’ll never share the ring with Edge & Christian again:

“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, organisation, 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.”

H/T: F4WOnline

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