D-Von Dudley Reflects On Scary Table Bump From Original TLC Match At WWE SummerSlam 2000

D-Von Dudley looks back on one of the table bumps from the original TLC match at WWE SummerSlam 2000. Specifically, he’s looking at the spot where he dumped Matt Hardy backwards off a ladder through tables on the outside of the ring.

In his latest YouTube video, D-Von Dudley ranked several iconic table bumps in wrestling history. The very first one he looked at was from the TLC Match at WWE SummerSlam 2000, and yet another match between The Hardy Boyz, The Dudley Boyz, and Edge & Christian. In the middle of the match, Matt Hardy was reaching for the WWE Tag Team Championship belts atop a ladder and then was tipped backwards, flying out of the ring and through a table courtesy of D-Von.

D-Von Dudley reflected on the scary moment, saying that it was actually Matt Hardy’s idea. He credited Hardy for taking the bump safely and discussed all of the unknowns that could occur with such a high-risk spot.

“I’ll be honest with you, that one probably has to be the scariest one out of that whole match, because you’re going backwards and there’s no telling if your head’s gonna hit the back of the barricade or not, so it’s a bump that I wouldn’t want to take, but Matt took it. Matt, my thumbs are up to you, because Lord knows, D-Von couldn’t have done that one. You know something, Matt actually came up with this spot, which is crazy in itself. Why would you want to jump off of a ladder backwards, or be pushed off a ladder backwards, at least, I would say, a good 10 to 15 feet up, and to go backwards through two tables?

“That’s insane, but he did it. So again, Matt, very, very good. How scary that bump in itself probably could have been for him, so on the D-Von Testify Table Scale, I’m probably most likely gonna have to give this a five. Let me explain why. You cannot deny that going on top of a ladder as high as you can, and then being pushed off it by somebody lifting the ladder and making you go backwards into two tables. You have to hope that you don’t pull or jerk that ladder too much, because, again, it could throw you off, and going backwards, that’s never a fun thing to do.”

Twenty-five years later, both The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boyz were ringside for a TLC match that took place at WWE SummerSlam 2025.

Also, The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boyz are scheduled to wrestle one final time at TNA Bound for Glory 2025. Read D-Von Dudley’s thoughts on that match here.

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