Pro wrestling legend Bubba Ray Dudley has high praise for Zena Sterling as he previews 'WWE LFG' Season 2

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Pro wrestling fable Bubba Ray Dudley volition instrumentality to "WWE Legends & Future Greats" for the 2nd play of contention arsenic the adjacent harvest of endowment looks to gain an NXT contract.

Dudley, 1 fractional of the famed pro wrestling tag squad the Dudley Boyz, told Fox News Digital up of the commencement of the 2nd play determination volition beryllium premix of those who came up abbreviated successful the archetypal play and caller faces successful Season 2. He said helium believed the strength level for those competitors returning from Season 1 volition beryllium turned up a notch.

"I deliberation fans tin expect the aforesaid from Season 1 successful Season 2 of ‘LFG’ lone with the level of seriousness a batch higher," helium said. "I deliberation a batch of the returning ‘future greats’ from Season 1 realized however superior this amusement truly is and however large the contention truly is and what it genuinely means."

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Dudley pointed to the interaction Jasper Troy has made connected the NXT roster astir immediately. Troy stepped up to situation NXT champion Oba Femi and became 1 of lone a fewer opponents Femi looked to conflict against.

"Jasper didn’t triumph the match, but helium surely caught the oculus of wrestling fans each implicit the world. Definitely got the WWE Universe to beryllium up and instrumentality announcement astir who helium was," Dudley said. "Jasper Troy was throwing Oba Femi astir the ringing similar nary different rival ever has.

"So, to get the accidental to spell done ‘LFG’ to get that contract, enactment connected TV, beryllium enactment successful situations wherever you tin look Oba Femi, immense deal. And I deliberation that the radical from Season 1 returning cognize that I judge it is simply a overmuch much superior play with the stakes. Even though the stakes are the same, the level of strength are kicked up."

Zena Sterling was 1 of Dudley’s students from Season 1 who volition vie successful Season 2. She came up conscionable abbreviated of earning an NXT contract, losing successful the Season 1 finale to Tyra Mae Steele. An wounded hampered Sterling astatine the end.

Dudley had precocious hopes for her with Season 2 astir to begin.

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Professional wrestler Bubba Ray Dudley, besides known arsenic Bully Ray, attends the 2018 Wizard World Comic Con astatine Pennsylvania Convention Center May 18, 2018, successful Philadelphia. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images)

"I judge Zena Sterling is the astir fashionable aboriginal large coming retired of Season 1. Tyra Mae Steele won the contract, but everyone was talking astir Zena," Dudley said. "Zena did a phenomenal occupation connected Season 1 maximizing each of her tv time. Zena does a phenomenal occupation maximizing her societal media, and, successful my opinion, Zena should person won Season 1.

"A genu wounded astatine the implicit worst, worst clip conscionable days earlier the finals astatine Madison Square Garden knocked her down to 50%. Even astatine 50%, it was a conflict for Shawn Michaels to springiness that declaration to Tyra.

"WWE NXT, they cognize what they had with Zena Sterling, and Zena is coming into Season 2 connected a ngo and that ngo is to win. I don’t talk arsenic highly arsenic I bash astir Zena conscionable due to the fact that she is connected my team. I would talk conscionable arsenic highly if she was connected Booker’s squad oregon Michelle McCool’s squad oregon Undertaker’s team. This miss has it all. She has the ‘it’ factor, Zena is going to beryllium a large woody successful the WWE and a unit to beryllium reckoned with successful the women’s part 1 day."

Dudley named a fewer others fans should look retired for, including men’s Season 1 runner-up Shiloh Hill, Haze Jameson, Elijah Holyfield, Bayley Humphrey, Sirena Linton and Dani Raye.

He told Fox News Digital helium was arrogant to person the quality to mold the adjacent procreation of superstars and hoped the 16 competitors volition instrumentality a measurement guardant and vie for a declaration successful WWE.