Bully Ray recently took part in a media call ahead of Ring Of Honor‘s G1 Supercard event this weekend at Madison Square Garden. I asked Bully about how he avoids growing complacent in the wrestling business, even after successfully re-inventing himself as Bully Ray after a long and storied run as the Dudley Boyz. Bully says he is enjoying himself too much to feel that way, and says he is there to provide a storytelling element for Ring Of Honor that some other talent might not be able to provide:
“I have entirely too much fun in the professional wrestling business to grow complacent. There are so many stories left to tell, and I love coming up with these new stories. Actually, I love coming up with these new stories that have been told maybe one hundred times over, but I get to tell them in a unique, different way. Especially in pro wrestling these days, where heels are so afraid to get heat, I basically have no dear in the wrestling business. I can do things that nobody else is doing right now, and that alone allows me to never become complacent and to continue to have fun.
I think one of the most fun things for me is, Ring Of Honor is basically full circle with my career. Ring Of Honor is ECW. Ring Of Honor was created because ECW went out of business. The work ethic, the passion, the drive of Ring Of Honor is something that I can understand and relate to because that’s what we did in ECW. I feel like my career has come full circle, and that I am in a company that I belong in. At first, a lot of people were like ‘oh no, this is not going to work out’ and they gave a variety of reasons for why it wouldn’t work out. But for those exact reasons is why it has worked out because Ring Of Honor doesn’t have a guy like me, and in any wrestling company, you need a variety. You can’t just have wrestling match after wrestling match after wrestling match; you need some storytelling because after all, this is the storytelling business. I would never want to take away from what Ring Of Honor is doing because those guys do what they do entirely too damn well. I just want to be able to add another aspect to Ring Of Honor that other guys might not be as qualified to do.”
Bully Ray faces Juice Robinson at Ring Of Honor and New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s G1 Supercard at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.
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