Bully Ray enjoyed the CM Punk and Seth Rollins promo segment from this week’s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw.
Except for a couple of parts.
During the latest episode of Busted Open Radio, the pro wrestling legend gave his criticism of the segment and Rollins’ character.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the episode where he touches on this topic with his thoughts.
On how he liked the segment except when Rollins threatened to ‘expose’ Punk: “Getting exposed in the business is a very bad thing to have to happen to a wrestler. To be more eloquent about this, I got exposed by Gigolo Jimmy Del Ray in ECW — being exposed is when a wrestler takes away another wrestler’s smoke and mirrors. When your smoke and mirrors get taken away, what’s the only thing you have in pro wrestling? Your wrestling ability and that’s it. So, what Seth is saying is, ‘I’m gonna show the world that, in this ring, despite that we work in a sports entertainment company, I’m gonna expose you and show the world you’re not the Best in the World. I’m gonna outwrestle you and show everybody you can’t keep up with me.'”
On how he feels Rollins needs to lose his sports entertainment shtick: “Sports entertainment … I don’t need that from Seth. Especially with the guy that’s standing across from him. [Jey] Uso already welcomed us to Raw earlier in the night, didn’t he? And I know this is part of Rollins’ shtick, but this is where I don’t want to hear the shtick — this is where I don’t want to see the shtick. Matter of fact, if Seth didn’t have on one of his typical, exuberant outfits, I would have been happy with that too. I would have actually loved to have seen Tyler Black [or] just the guy Seth Rollins so pissed off at this guy Punk that ‘I’m stripping it all away to get me in my purest form.”
Check out the complete episode of the show at Soundcloud.com. H/T to WrestlingInc.com for transcribing the above quotes.
