Bully Ray Explains His Issues With WWE LFG Prospect BJ Ray

In an interview with the Ariel Helwani Show (via Wrestling Inc), Bully Ray spoke about his issues with WWE LFG prospect BJ Ray and how he feels BJ didn’t respect him. A moment between the two went viral, in which Ray told BJ that he hadn’t earned a handshake from him.

Bully Ray said: “When I met all the future greats, I could tell instantly that he wasn’t extending his hand to me in a genuine way. He was extending his hand to me in an ass-kissing, trying-to-get-himself-over way — for all the wrong reasons. It takes me a second to read somebody, and I read this kid, and I told him, ‘You earn the right to shake my hand.’ Everything that he said … he’s one of those young, brash guys, he’s almost like a Logan Paul-esque or Mike ‘The Miz-esque’ kind of personality, where he just says whatever he wants, has absolutely no filter, and you can’t wait to see him get smacked in the mouth. Not only was I genuinely pissed off, but he pissed off The Undertaker. Like, you pissed off The Undertaker on day one, and when I say pissed off, Ariel, I’m not kidding around. If the cameras weren’t rolling, I wonder what would have happened to this kid. Nobody — and  I mean nobody — screws with me in the wrestling business. Every once in a while, somebody has to get educated, somebody’s got to get smartened up, somebody has to be sat down, and you explain to them, you try to educate them on why they should conduct themselves in a better way.”

“How do I know this? Because I remember a night in 2001 when I cracked The Undertaker with a chair to the back of his head, splitting him open. He had to get eight staples. When I got back to the locker room, I fully expected to have to fight The Undertaker and defend myself. But you know how he handled it? He sat me down like a gentleman and explained to me why mistakes like that could not happen anymore.”