D-Von Dudley Shares That He’d Been Training For Match Against The Hardys For The Last Six Months

D-Von was first pitched the idea in early 2025.

Team 3D’s final match as a duo took place at TNA Bound For Glory. D-Von Dudley and Bully Ray met The Hardys (Matt Hardy & Jeff Hardy) in a Tables match for the TNA World Tag Team and NXT Tag Team Championships.

D-Von looked back on that while being interviewed by VideoGamer. He provided an update on how he’s feeling physically. Dudley revealed that Bully Ray first contacted him in early 2025 about the idea of facing The Hardys. D-Von said he’s been training for it for the last six months.

“Oh, I feel great. I’m sore, yes. But that’s expected when you haven’t been in the ring in three years. And then prior to the 1000th episode of IMPACT Wrestling, it was seven years. I started the training six months prior to the match last Sunday. And I was happy to do that. I started taking boxing lessons, not to become a boxer, but I did it because it was helping with my footwork. Things like moving side to side, moving forward and back. Trying to get quick in that aspect. We did tangle with the gloves a little bit and I enjoyed it. It was great cardio. I was salivating at the mouth, drool coming out of my mouth, snot coming out of my nose, but doing rounds of boxing was one of the ways I’ve been keeping my cardio up. Flipping tires, doing the ropes, things like that. So it was a grueling six months when I put my body through just to do what we did. But it was all worth it. I hadn’t done it in years and I was happy to have started doing that. I felt like the old D-Von and I’m just glad it’s over.

I think talks started in January. I got the phone call from Bubba sometime in February and he asked me if I could still go. And that was the thing. He said, ‘Can you still go?’ ‘Of course I can still go.’ When he said he wanted one last match with the Hardys, I said ‘Oh, here we go.’ Just for the fact that when you wrestle with the Hardys, you’ve got to come prepared, you’ve got to be ready. And I wanted to make sure that that was gonna be the case if I took this on, which is why I started training as soon as I found out. I knew how long it would take me to get back into shape and to do what I had to do, but it worked and I’m happy about it.”

Post-match, Team 3D handed their wrestling boots to The Hardys. When asked if that was the last time he would ever wrestle, D-Von said the following:

“You don’t take off your boots in the middle of the ring and then decide to come back. That’s disrespectful in my opinion. So there’s your answer.”

As for The Hardys, they are continuing as they have an NXT Tag Team Title defense against DarkState at NXT Halloween Havoc. They will be competing as ‘Broken Matt’ and ‘Brother Nero.’