Listen up!

Class is in session. This week, we have two special guests in the classroom: Brother Ray and Brother Devon, the championship tag team formerly known as the Dudley Boyz.

These days, Ray and Devon are known as "Team 3-D" as they practice their table-smashing craft in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on Spike TV.

So what's the story with the new name? Well, it goes like this: Their former employer, Vince McMahon -- the kingpin of World Wrestling Entertainment -- told the boys they couldn't use "Dudley Boyz" outside WWE, claiming it was his trademarked property. The Boyz disagree, and are fighting to get it back.

"WWE claims that it has the right to the Dudley name," Devon said in a recent phone interview. "We know we have the rights. So they can sit there and say that all they want. Are we going to fight them? You're damn right we are. They're trying to keep something that's not theirs. They didn't make us. We were making money way before we even got to them (in Extreme Championship Wrestling). In my opinion, they're just trying to be bullies. They say it's business. It ain't business. They're trying to stop someone from making a living."

Brother Ray wouldn't say much about the name game, but had lots to say about Vincent K. himself -- especially how he treats people who come to WWE with a gimmick of their own.

"In the Bible, it says 'God created man in his image,' Ray said. "And if Vince McMahon doesn't create you in his image, you'll only get so far in WWE."

Which is not to say the former Dudleys didn't go far in Vince's promotion. Quite to the contrary. They held major belts and were pay-per-view mainstays. But near the end of their WWE run last fall, Ray contends the Stamford gang just didn't respect what the Boyz had to offer.

"My last two years there were not fun at all," Ray said. "They didn't know what to do with us. Me and Devon still have so much more to give. And that's why we're happy TNA is around because TNA knows how important tag team wrestling is. They invest time in tag team wrestling. People like tag team wrestling. It's very entertaining, and when done the right way, can be more entertaining than singles wrestling."

"(TNA is) giving me what I've been longing for the past year," Devon agreed. "And that is wrestling on a wrestling show. WWE wants to make their wrestlers into actors -- but we're wrestlers. TNA gives us non-stop action. They don't put on a whole bunch of talk, and that's one thing that I like about TNA."