WWE Hall of Famer and NXT Coach D-Von Dudley was supposed to appear at the Battleground Championship Wrestling event on December 17 at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, PA.
D-Von was all set to be in Bully Ray’s corner at the Tribute To the Extreme show and had been advertised since September, but was pulled at the last minute.
In the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer reported that WWE pulled him from the show as Bruce Prichard nixed the booking. It landed on Triple H’s desk, and when D-Von said he was going to do it, he was basically told he would be fired if he appeared at the show.
Meltzer wrote, “he went through John Cone in talent relations who reportedly approved of the booking and he believed based on his contract, since he’s not a wrestler, that he was able to do things like that. Bruce Prichard nixed the booking and it ended up on the desk of Paul Levesque. Hughes has said he was going to do it because he gave his word on it and Levesque didn’t give approval, and he was basically told if he did it, he’d be fired, so he didn’t do it.”
Meltzer added that there was no real reason given past the claim that they didn’t want him in any physical risk.
The event had sold out two weeks in advance of the show. D-Von has yet to comment on the situation.
