The original three members of the Dudley family in Extreme Championship Wrestling were Dudley Dudley (the only one of the brothers with a Dudley for a mother), Big Dick Dudley (the menacing, animalistic enforcer of the group) and Snot Dudley (the underdog of the group, who would pick his nose during matches). They made their first appearance on July 1, 1995 at Hardcore Heaven, where the tag team of Dudley Dudley and Snot Dudley defeated The Pitbulls. Shortly after their debut, the Dudley Brothers aligned themselves with Raven, joining Raven's Nest. At Heat Wave on July 15, 1995, Dudley Dudley and Snot Dudley teamed with Raven in a loss to Tommy Dreamer and The Pitbulls.
After Snot Dudley was injured, he was replaced on the September 17, 1995 episode of ECW Hardcore TV by Dances with Dudley, who was said to be the child of Big Daddy Dudley and a Cheyenne Native American woman. Dudley Dudley and Dances with Dudley teamed with one another through the latter half of 1995, competing against teams such as The Gangstas and The Bad Crew. In September 1995, Dudley Dudley and Dances with Dudley unsuccessfully challenged The Pitbulls for the ECW World Tag Team Championship.
The group was expanded when the obese, slobbish Chubby Dudley and the mute, placard-wielding Sign Guy Dudley (the result of Big Daddy Dudley's incarceration in an asylum) began accompanying Dudley Dudley and Dances with Dudley to ringside.
In October 1995, the Dudley family was joined by Buh Buh Ray Dudley, a stuttering, dancing, overweight hillbilly. After Dudley Dudley left ECW in late 1995, Buh Buh Ray Dudley began teaming with Dances with Dudley, facing tag teams such as The Public Enemy and The Eliminators. At Holiday Hell on December 29, 1995, the Dudley Brothers left Raven's Nest. In January 1996, Dances with Dudley and Buh Buh Ray Dudley unsuccessfully challenged Cactus Jack and Mikey Whipwreck for the ECW World Tag Team Championship.
At Massacre on Queens Boulevard on April 13, 1996, D-Von Dudley made his debut, angrily proclaiming that the Dudley's comedic antics were not the way "true Dudleys" should conduct themselves. At Heat Wave on July 13, 1996, D-Von attacked Dances with Dudley, Chubby Dudley and Sign Guy Dudley with a chair and delivered a low blow to Buh Buh Ray before being driven off by Hack Meyers.
Dances With Dudley and Chubby Dudley left ECW in mid-1996. In September 1996, at When Worlds Collide II, Little Spike Dudley debuted in ECW. The "runt" of the Dudley Brothers, Spike began teaming with Buh Buh Ray Dudley, facing tag teams such as The Eliminators and The Bad Crew. The duo also faced D-Von Dudley in a number of bouts. At November to Remember on November 16, 1996, Buh Buh Ray defeated D-Von in a singles match.
At Crossing the Line Again on February 1, 1997, Buh Buh Ray turned heel by joining forces with D-Von. The duo began teaming together as The Dudley Boyz, along with Big Dick Dudley and Sign Guy Dudley, forming a dominant heel stable. Between March 1997 and August 1999, Buh Buh Ray and D-Von held the ECW World Tag Team Championship on a record eight occasions. The Dudley Brothers feuded with rivals such as The Eliminators, Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman, and Little Spike Dudley, the sole remaining face Dudley.
At It Ain't Seinfeld on May 14, 1998, Buh Buh Ray Dudley's taunting resulted in a member of the audience attempted to invade the ring before being intercepted by security guards. On the June 3, 1998 episode of ECW Hardcore TV, Buh Buh Ray and D-Von delivered their 3D finishing maneuver to Beulah McGillicutty, supposedly breaking her neck.
Big Dick left ECW in early 1999. The stable finally dissolved in August 1999 at the Last Show at the Madhouse, where Buh Buh Ray and D-Von left ECW to join the World Wrestling Federation. In October 1999, at Re-enter the Sandman, Sign Guy Dudley renamed himself "Lou E. Dangerously", leaving Spike as the sole remaining Dudley in ECW until the promotion folded in April 2001, when he too joined the WWF, reuniting with Buh Buh Ray and D-Von.