Bubba Ray Dudley Praises Kevin Owens’ Patience Ahead Of WWE LFG Season 3

“I’ve never looked at the job as easy or hard," said Bubba Ray. “I go in there with one thing in mind and that’s to instill the best knowledge I possibly can into the future greats. As someone who has owned his own professional wrestling school for years—the Team 3D Academy—I take the very same approach. ‘Here’s what it takes; here’s ow to get over; here’s what to do.’”

"I very much enjoyed Season 3 because it’s more of a hard-nose, direct approach. I can compare it to the HBO show Hard Knocks where everybody has come together for the common goal of putting the best team on the field and getting each future great ready for getting a phone call in a day that says ‘you’re moving up and moving on,’ or getting a phone call saying ‘you’re going home.’"

Bully Ray On Celebrities In WWE

WrestleMania 42 came and went with a cavalcade of celebrities on display—a staple of WrestleMania. But in the context of WWE’s relationship with TKO, celebrity involvement and corporate advertising has been criticized by longtime wrestling fans, including Ariel Helwani and Andrew Yang.

WWE’s top stars like Cody Rhodes and CM Punk have made in-character comments about TKO’s apparent meddling. But the celebrities involved seem to have simply caught strays amid the corporatization of WWE, which is a story as old as time in the wrestling business. Jelly Roll, Pat McAfee, Logan Paul and IShowSpeed all have a real-life affinity for pro wrestling. The same goes for Lil Yachty, who recently announced he’s here to stay before getting his flowers from Paul Heyman.

Bully Ray Dudley is also in the camp of welcoming celebrities in this business. He’s even willing to train them as long as they’re here for the right reasons.

“If you have respect for our industry, and you truly want to get involved and do this for all the right reasons, I would have no problem training somebody or working with somebody who wanted to invest real time in pro wrestling," said Bubba Ray.

“I’ve never had a problem with celebrities being involved in WrestleMania or wrestling in general. WrestleMania I was one of the biggest celebrity spectacles of all time, Lawrence Taylor and Bam Bam Bigelow. I’m sure I’ve done things with celebrities that I’ve forgotten about and this year it’s no different.”

"I understand why IShowSpeed is a part of this, I understand why Logan Paul is a apart of this, between both of them it’s about 50 million Instagram followers. It’s about eyes. It’s going beyond the wrestling scope of things and taking people who might not have ever been exposed to the world of WWE an bringing them in."

WWE LFG Season 3 airs Sunday, April 26, 2026 at 10:00 pm EST.

This article was originally published on Forbes.com