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Class is in session.

This week, the former Dudley Boyz -- Brother Ray and Brother Devon -- return to classroom for Part Two of their chat with your professor. (Read Part One right here.)

After being released by WWE last fall, Team 3D (the name they use now due to a trademark dispute with Vince McMahon) bounced back by signing a contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). They joined former WWE stars Christian Cage, Rhino, Kip James (Billy Gunn) and B.G. James (Road Dogg) in the promotion, which was started by Jeff Jarrett a few years ago.

While TNA has made great strides in gaining national exposure on Spike TV (the weekly "Impact!" show moves to Thursday nights in April), it's still a clear underdog to the WWE juggernaut. But both men say they're in the right spot.

For Devon, it's a matter of logistics. He lives in suburban Orlando, just a few miles from Universal Studios where TNA stages its TV shows. Right now, TNA tapes two "Impact!" shows every other week, and performs a live monthly pay-per-view show.

"I live 45 minutes away," Devon said. "So I spend $1.25 on tolls. If the show ends at 9:30, I'm home in my bed by 11. It's a lot easier ... the workload, in terms of not being on the road, not going from hotel to hotel."

Ray, however, liked the nightly WWE pace better.

"I'd rather wrestle the WWE schedule, staying crisp and staying sharp" Ray said. "When you only wrestle a couple of times a month, rust sets in."

But Ray says when the rust is off, he's always ready to go.

"I'm a machine," he continued. "After all the pounding I've been through, I'm still as good as I was from day one. Unfortunately, sometimes we just don't have the same level of competition to pull it out of us."

In other words, TNA is a great place to be, but the Boyz still yearn to learn. The problem is that they're the old kids on the block. They've been around for more than a decade -- which is a bit rare for a tag team these days.

"You really don't learn too much from guys who are younger than you," Ray said. "Me and Devon are begging to get in the ring with guys that are more experienced than us. There's really no one to learn from. It got to the point in WWE that I begged the office to let us work in tag team matches on house shows against Ric Flair and Triple H.

"Whatever you say about (Triple H), he's still a great in-ring performer and wrestler, and somebody you can still learn psychology from.

"A lot of the younger guys have a different outlook on what pro wrestling is today. If you'll notice a lot of the younger guys are more into doing their moves and getting their own stuff over (getting a reaction from the crowd) as opposed to the old school art of getting each other over."

Make no mistake, the former Dudleys are old school. It's a fact that wrestling outcomes are predetermined, but Ray didn't want to talk about that. He also didn't want to talk about his real name, or his real life, contending that true fans don't really cares about that stuff. He says his focus is simply the growth of TNA. Part of that, he says, is spending more time on the microphone: "Could you imagine how much more over the Dudley Boys would have been (in WWE) if we would have been given the same amount of talk time as we did wrestling time?"

Ray also has his eye on a certain free agent.

"The one guy I'd like to see come in here -- and would be a perfect fit for TNA -- is (Chris) Jericho," he said. "He can wrestle with the smaller guys as well as the heavyweights. He's got great microphone skills, and he's a proven moneymaker. Hopefully one day he'll tell WWE to go to hell just like (current NWA champ) Christian did."

Devon also said he'd like to see Jericho in a TNA ring someday, because he knows what that type of guy would do for ratings. But at the end of the day, it's all about giving fans an alternative.

"We're going to have to continue to give the fans what they want, which is non-stop action," Devon said. "A lot of people still don't know that TNA is in exsistence."

But a lot more will, starting April 13 when "Impact!" moves to Thursday nights. You can bet Team 3D will be front and center.

"A lot of people are parked in front of their television sets on Thursday nights," Ray said. "Hopefully when people flip it around they'll see a different wrestling product out there, and they'll stay on TNA wrestling."

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