WWE legend Bubba Ray Dudley talks up Zena Sterling

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Professional wrestling legend Bubba Ray Dudley will return to "WWE Legends & Future Greats" for the second season of competitors as the subsequent crop of expertise appears to be like to earn an NXT contract .

Dudley, one half of the famed professional wrestling tag crew the Dudley Boyz, instructed Fox Information Digital forward of the beginning of the second season there might be mixture of those that got here up quick within the first season and new faces in Season 2. He stated he believed the depth stage for these opponents getting back from Season 1 might be turned up a notch.

"I feel followers can count on the identical from Season 1 in Season 2 of ‘LFG’ solely with the extent of seriousness lots larger," he stated. "I feel a whole lot of the returning ‘future greats’ from Season 1 realized how severe this present actually is and the way huge the competitors actually is and what it really means."

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Bubba Ray Dudley serves as a referee throughout Wrestlemania XL at Lincoln Monetary Discipline in Philadelphia April 7, 2024. (Joe Camporeale/USA Right this moment Sports activities)

Dudley pointed to the affect Jasper Troy has made on the NXT roster virtually instantly. Troy stepped as much as problem NXT champion Oba Femi and have become one in every of just a few opponents Femi appeared to wrestle in opposition to.

"Jasper didn’t win the match, however he actually caught the attention of wrestling followers everywhere in the world. Undoubtedly received the WWE Universe to take a seat up and take discover about who he was," Dudley stated. "Jasper Troy was throwing Oba Femi across the ring like no different competitor ever has.

"So, to get the chance to undergo ‘LFG’ to get that contract, placed on TV, be put in conditions the place you possibly can face Oba Femi, large deal. And I feel that the folks from Season 1 returning know that I consider it's a far more severe season with the stakes. Despite the fact that the stakes are the identical, the extent of depth are kicked up."

Zena Sterling was one in every of Dudley’s college students from Season 1 who will compete in Season 2. She got here up simply in need of incomes an NXT contract, dropping within the Season 1 finale to Tyra Mae Steele. An damage hampered Sterling on the finish.

Dudley had excessive hopes for her with Season 2 about to start.

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Skilled wrestler Bubba Ray Dudley, often known as Bully Ray, attends the 2018 Wizard World Comedian Con at Pennsylvania Conference Heart Could 18, 2018, in Philadelphia. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Photos)

"I consider Zena Sterling is the most well-liked future nice popping out of Season 1. Tyra Mae Steele received the contract, however everybody was speaking about Zena," Dudley stated. "Zena did an outstanding job on Season 1 maximizing all of her tv time. Zena does an outstanding job maximizing her social media, and, for my part, Zena ought to have received Season 1.

"A knee damage on the absolute worst, worst time simply days earlier than the finals at Madison Sq. Backyard knocked her all the way down to 50%. Even at 50%, it was a wrestle for Shawn Michaels to offer that contract to Tyra.

"WWE NXT, they know what they'd with Zena Sterling, and Zena is coming into Season 2 on a mission and that mission is to win. I don’t converse as extremely as I do about Zena simply because she is on my crew. I might converse simply as extremely if she was on Booker’s crew or Michelle McCool’s crew or Undertaker’s crew. This lady has all of it. She has the ‘it’ issue, Zena goes to be a giant deal within the WWE and a power to be reckoned with within the ladies’s division sooner or later."

Dudley named a couple of others followers ought to look out for, together with males’s Season 1 runner-up Shiloh Hill, Haze Jameson, Elijah Holyfield, Bayley Humphrey, Sirena Linton and Dani Raye.

He instructed Fox Information Digital he was proud to have the power to mildew the subsequent era of superstars and hoped the 16 opponents will take a step ahead and compete for a contract in WWE.