Grappling with Tragedy: John Grandovich December 13, 2023ĪEW Andre the Giant Bret Hart Brock Lesnar Chris Jericho CM Punk Daniel Bryan Deaths in Wrestling Debra McMichael Downed on the Farm Dusty Rhodes ECW Eric Bischoff FCW Four Horsemen Goldust Grappling With Tragedy Hollywood Hogan Hulk Hogan Jeff Jarrett Jerry 'The King' Lawler John Cena Kane Kevin Nash Lex Luger Macho Man Randy Savage Monday Night Raw Monday Night War Monday Night Wars Monday Nitro NWA nWo NXT Owen Hart Paul Heyman Pro Wrestling Arrests pro wrestling deaths Pro wrestling scandals Pro Wrestling Sex Scandals Raw Raw Rewind Raw vs.6, including Terrell Hughes and Terrence Hughesĭevon Hughes (born August 1, 1972) is an American professional wrestler. Top Five Best Promos of All Time December 14, 2023.The Wrestling Promoter Who Killed December 15, 2023.This Week in Wrestling 2023 Week 50 December 16, 2023.Wrestling With Sin: 468 December 18, 2023.The rest as they say…is history.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. She would become ‘Mighty Molly’ and become a heel super hero character. Molly would turn on Spike and align herself with Helms. While Spike and Molly were still a couple, Spike took on Hurricane Helms in a match. The end of this storyline came in September of 2001 with the emergence of the Invasion angle. The story doesn’t truly end there however. Thus disowning Spike Dudley as family in the process. Instead of letting Molly go, Bubba Ray went ahead and powerbombed Molly on to Spike through the table. While the table was set up and Bubba was prepared to powerbomb Molly through it…Spike climbed on the table to prevent his half brother from hurting his girlfriend. During the course of the match, Bubba Ray and D-Von were poised to put a defenseless Molly through a table to end the star crossed relationship. The culmination of the Hollys versus Dudleys feud came in the form of a tables match. Of course, like with any Shakespearean story….it wasn’t without tragedy….well at least in terms of kayfabe. He gave his thoughts why he thinks the angle got over so well, “We were the two most average people in WWE, which I think normal people could relate to.” So my Disney romance with Spike Dudley was by far one of my favorite things in my time with the WWF.” Matt Hyson aka Spike Dudley agrees and said that the storyline with Molly Holly was “very exciting” during his career. It was fun to have acting skits and the things that the fans could get involved with, get behind, root for. She said, “I really enjoyed my character’s storyline with Spike Dudley. In several interviews, Nora Greenwald who portrayed Molly Holly said that the Molly/Spike storyline was her favorite time as a wrestler. It even saw Spike stand up and defend Molly’s honor when a heel ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin called Molly a name and that led to a mini feud between Spike and Austin. Despite the constant opposition, Spike and Molly continued to spend time together as a couple. The Holly cousins wanted Molly to dump the scrawny, awkward Spike, while the Dudley Boyz felt that Molly was clouding Spike’s judgement on handling wrestling business. Naturally, the Dudleys and Hollys were against Molly and Spike’s relationship and that only escalated the violence between the two teams. You had the classic of tale of two people from opposite sides finding love with one another, despite their families determined to destroy the other. While the Dudleys and Hollys were hardly the Montagues and Capulets in this story…it was one of the very best…yet underrated angles of the post Attitude Era. In storyline, Molly Holly was the cousin of Hardcore and Crash Holly, while Spike Dudley was the kayfabe brother to Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley. They would find love with one another in between a violent feud between their warring “families” of the Hollys and the Dudleys. The subjects in this tale would be Molly Holly and Spike Dudley. In 2001, the World Wrestling Federation tried their hand at recreating the classic Romeo and Juliet storyline. Whether it was George ‘The Animal’ Steele pining for Miss Elizabeth, Stephanie McMahon and Test or even something as bizarre as Kane and Lita…the WWF/WWE has had no shortage of superstars falling in love with each other. In all the years that the promotion has been around, there have been many love storylines. Nobody is going to confuse WWE with a Shakespearean masterpiece…a soap opera perhaps, but nothing above that.
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