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Bully Ray On Backstage Comments Abyss Made To Him and Paul Heyman at Summerslam

August 11, 2025 | Posted by Ashish Pabari
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Bully Ray discussed a backstage conversation he had with Paul Heyman and Abyss (who now works as a producer for WWE) prior to Summerslam Night Two on a recent episode of Busted Open Radio. Bully said that he loved comments Abyss made to them about a match he was producing (the Solo Sikoa vs. Jacob Fatu cage match at Summerslam). Highlights of his comments are below (h/t WrestlingInc).

On what Abyss said to them: “Abyss walks into the room, and he looks at Paul and goes ‘Paul, I’m very excited for you to see the steel cage match tonight, because of the drama we are going to build.’ And it was like I got slapped in the face Dave. And I was like ‘Wow.’ I’m like…to hear that, for me, was amazing, because we’re so used to hearing about moves. I’m used to hearing wrestlers talking about moves, or the wrestling business talking about moves.”

On why he was happy to hear Abyss say that: “Here’s Abyss, Chris Park…and the first words out of his mouth was he was excited for one of the masters, in Paul Heyman, to see and hear the drama that he believes Solo and Jacob were going to create. Not moves, not about the moonsault, not about anything else other than the drama that they were going to create. The emotion that they were going to create. And I just loved hearing that, because when you create drama, you don’t need any moves.”