D-Von Dudley says he reached out to AEW for a producer’s role, but Tony Khan had other plans for him.
Dudley recently spoke with Video Gamer, who asked how many times AEW had contacted him to try to get him to work for the company. D-Von, a former producer in WWE, said that he did reach out because he still wanted to be an agent and thought it could help his sons, who were also breaking out in the pro wrestling business.
D-Von says he had several meetings with AEW, adding that Tony Khan pitched him on doing a six-man tag team match with his sons, Terrence and Terrell. He turned it down, noting that he didn’t want to wrestle, but says Khan “wasn’t taking no for an answer.”
“I was looking to become a producer. I wasn’t looking to become a wrestler. And the only reason why my agent even contacted them was because of the fact that I left WWE and I wanted to still do the agent role. But my sons were there at the time and I was gonna try to do anything I could to help my sons out,” D-Von Dudley explained. “I expressed to Tony that I didn’t wanna wrestle. He kept trying to push it. He would have loved me to go out there and do a couple of things, maybe be a manager and maybe even do a six-man tag match. And I told him, I said, ‘if I do a six-man, let me know right now. I’ll be on apron and the boys are gonna do all the work.’
D-Von says he also didn’t want to wrestle because of his back issues
“I told him I don’t wanna wrestle anymore. And he wasn’t taking no for an answer. He couldn’t get that through his head,” D-Von added. “He was like stringing me along and even though I kept telling him I don’t wanna wrestle, I was literally when we had those meetings really fresh off a back surgery. I really couldn’t do it like that back then. It takes time for your body to heal and to be able to do what you got to do after back surgery.”
D-Von says he emphasized that he wanted a backstage role and didn’t want to compete, but Khan continued to ask.
“And I’m like, ‘dude, you’re not getting what I’m saying. I don’t want to wrestle, I just wanna be a producer. I wanna help my sons out, I wanna help get them where they are.’ Like what Billy Gun was doing for his sons, you know? I’ve done everything in my career. I don’t need that,” he said. “He just wasn’t taking no for an answer. I’ve had three meetings with him; all three were a bust!”
Terrence and Terrell, aka Team TNT or the Hughes Bros, were with AEW from 2020 through 2022. The duo largely competed on AEW Dark, and now compete on the independent scene.
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