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Running Time: 431 Minutes
Certificate: 15
Number Of Discs: 3
Studio: Fremantle Home Entertainment
Released: April 11 2016
Straight Outta Dudleyville (a clear take-off from the recent movie Straight Outta Compton) focuses on the careers of Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley, and mostly their time tag teaming together as The Dudley Boyz. It includes a documentary of around 75 minutes, as well as a selection of matches from their illustrious and decorated careers. (Depending where you order this DVD, you could also get special packaging which converts into a mini-table, which is awesome!) Can you believe that it has been just over 20 years now since we were first introduced to The Dudleyz?
After a brief look at the childhoods of the real-life Mark Lomonica and Devon Hughes, the two men discuss their entries into the wrestling business, and their arrivals at ECW in 1995 and 1996 respectively. The original Dudley gimmick was a bit weird to say the least, and it would take too much space to describe it here, but let's just say that the Dudley family (which had nine members at its peak) went in a very different direction once D-Von arrived, and specifically, after some initial battles between the then-Buh Buh Ray and D-Von, once they began teaming in early 1997. The comedy aspect of old was dropped in favour of a violent, offensive and frighteningly insulting style that made them truly loathed heels. Although it isn't shown here, on The Rise & Fall Of ECW DVD this included Buh Buh inciting near-riots and one extremely unnerving incident at ECW Heat Wave 1999, following some offensive remarks that would never make the air today, even in ECW if it were still around. It's easy to forget that during their ECW run, many die-hard fans of the promotion couldn't stand them, either because of how offensive they were or because their matches didn't deliver the action that those involving other acts in the promotion could or would.
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