Bully Ray parted ways with WWE last year, and shortly after his tag team partner D-Von accepted a job working with the company backstage. Bully has been keeping busy, and at one point he had an offer on the table to return to Impact Wrestling.
Impact Wrestling just went through another reboot, again, and the company reportedly wanted Bully Ray to have a big role on the first Impact episode of the new era. However, Bully turned down Impact’s offer to sign with ROH, and he recently told ESPN why he picked Ring of Honor.
“I had a huge offer to go back to TNA (now called Impact Wrestling), but I just knew in my heart it just wasn’t the right decision at the time,” Bully Ray said. “I am making less money with Ring of Honor than I would have been making with TNA if I accepted their offer, but I knew Ring of Honor was the right fit. Bully Ray belonged at Ring of Honor at this time. I don’t think I could’ve topped what I did as Bully Ray in TNA with the current landscape of TNA. Knowing all the great talent that Ring of Honor has, the passion of their locker room, the passion of their fans, and the fact that it’s the kind of setting I love to be in more than anything else, it was absolutely the right fit.”
It was rumored a few times that WWE had plans for Bubba Ray Dudley to transform into Bully Ray when The Dudleys had their last run with the company, and Bully himself confirmed the rumors. He noted that WWE pulled out because they just felt like the character would conflict with their Be a STAR program.
“His entire character is built around bullying people. Built around making people do things against their will. And with the business they have going on now — the Be a STAR program and more PG-rated stuff, bullying being such a sensitive subject around an entire world — it just wasn’t gonna work out.”
Do you think Bully Ray made the right call signing with ROH instead of Impact Wrestling? Sound off in the comments below.
turning down Imapct is the right decision no mater what, especially now.