Bully Ray says he accidentally dropped Vince McMahon on his head during a WWE Raw match that aired on June 12, 2000. The mistake led to a wild aftermath on SmackDown and a story Bully still remembers clearly.
What happened on Raw
The match on the June 12, 2000 episode of WWE Raw put The Dudley Boyz against Vince and Shane McMahon. Bully Ray says Vince arrived only about 30 minutes before the show went live. That left almost no time to rehearse a tricky top-rope powerbomb move known as the Superbomb.
Bully said Vince was heavy and did not know how to make himself light for the move. He tried to warn Vince they needed to practice. Bully asked to lift Vince in a hallway to test the lift and realized Vince was heavier than he expected. “I knew something was gonna go wrong,” Bully said on the podcast Busted Open: The Master’s Class.
The Superbomb spot
The plan was for Bully to put Vince on his shoulders on the top rope and hit the Superbomb. Road Dogg and X-Pac were also in the match. The D-Generation X members were supposed to run in and hit D-Von just enough to break up the move and save Vince.
Bully asked Road Dogg not to hit D-Von too hard. But when Road Dogg ran in, he hit D-Von just enough to push him forward. That small push moved Vince’s weight into Bully. The two lost balance and fell backward from the top rope to the concrete. “We go toppling backwards, ass over tea kettle, from the top rope to the concrete; dropped Vince McMahon right on his head,” Bully said (Busted Open: The Master’s Class).
Immediate aftermath
Vince played it off like he was fine. Bully remembers Vince saying there would be no heat. Still, there were consequences. A few days later on SmackDown, Bully Ray and D-Von were put into a dumpster and dropped about 15 feet off the stage. Bully calls it payback for the Raw accident.
The dumpster stunt went badly for D-Von. Bully said D-Von had an anxiety attack inside the dumpster because he did not like tight spaces. Bully had to hold his hand and calm him down, pretending it was a roller coaster. When the dumpster hit the ground the lid popped off and D-Von flew out gasping for air.
Bully Ray looks back
Bully calls the whole night a disaster. He says the real problems were dropping Vince and then putting D-Von in a dumpster when D-Von was claustrophobic. Bully said both moments were their “receipt” for what had happened in the ring.
He still tells the story now with a mix of humor and regret. Bully has shared the full account on the podcast Busted Open: The Master’s Class, and it remains one of the wild backstage stories from WWE’s Attitude Era.
