Spike Dudley: I Don’t Really Have A Relationship With Wrestling, When It’s Time To Get Out, It’s Time To Get Out

Spike Dudley shares if he still has a relationship with pro wrestling.

During the course of Spike’s wrestling career, there was one thing that was as certain as death and taxes, he would be on the receiving end of a beatdown. The third member of The Dudley Boyz would spend time in WWE, ECW and TNA where he would serve as a constant punching bag for talent, resulting in a career filled with terrifying bumps.

While speaking on the latest episode of Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Spike would be asked if he still has a relationship with wrestling, noting that he does not.

“I don’t really have one. When it’s time to get out, it was time to get out. My wife was pregnant and Okay, so this is what happened. This is how I officially got out of the business. My wife was a few months pregnant with our first daughter, that’d be 2010. I was working for 2CW in Syracuse, New York, which is a great promotion. It’s no longer there, but at the time, it was an awesome promotion, just great, great guys, truly, aside from like ECW, this group is the group that’s closest to my heart in terms of the boys and all of that. And they use me a lot at that company, but they booked me in a match against Sabu again, RIP. I drove up there, it’s about a five-hour drive. Drove up and I did the show, and I got my arm sliced. It wasn’t bleeding that bad. It was a slice, it was just from a gimmick. Honestly, going into it, I was like, it’s gonna be my Sabu match. I was like, I’m gonna do my arm, so self-inflicted. So I saw it, and I just taped it up, and I got into my car and I drove home, and I got home at like, four or five in the morning. My wife, she’s like, ‘Are you okay? Everything all right?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m fine.’ I fell asleep, and I woke up at like nine the next morning, and I start to peel the tape off, and blood just starts gushing. I was like, ‘Honey, I think we got to go to the emergency room.’ But then that was the moment where I realized, Okay, I’m gonna be a father. I can’t be doing this crazy stuff anymore, because physically, that’s what I did, was take bumps. And no matter how indestructible we all think we are, you hit a wall where you cannot do that anymore. So I was 40-41, something like that at the time, and that was the eye opener that okay, I can’t do this and be a responsible parent any longer. So I got my stitches and I called it quits. I had a couple of matches after but that was the signal that you’re done with the business.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Spike would talk about possibly being inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame. You can read more about that here.

Elsewhere in another interview last year, Spike discussed Brock Lesnar’s debut match where he would take a beating from ‘The Beast’. You can read more about that here.