Monday, June 3, 2019

Bully Ray Is ROH's Secret Police

ROH doesn't act on women being abused until it happened to this dork's girlfriend
Photo Credit: ROHWrestling.com
It's bad enough that Ring of Honor has decided to give Velvet Sky a pity job for the sake of her beau, Bully Ray. I get needing to have strong heels for the women's division, but her stable, The Allure, added Mandy Leon to it anyway. Leon and Angelina Love both can carry the weight by themselves. Hell, I'm sure Madison Rayne/Ashley Lane could be poached from Impact Wrestling easily enough since she's so easy-come, easy-go between there and ROH. Sky really doesn't bring anything to the table except for chemtrail awareness.

If her general unpleasantness wasn't bad enough, now she's getting fans nabbed by security and secret-police intimidated by her boyfriend. Twitter user @xIAMHOLLYWOODx went to a ROH show yesterday in Portland, OR. He threaded his experience here, but rather than link tweets, I will summarize it for you. Basically, during a dark match where The Allure interfered, this fan booed them because they're heels, and he boos the heels. Novel concept, I know, especially since NXT Takeover XXV featured three matches where the nominal heels all got massive cheers. Anyway, Sky and Leon both took it as a massive affront. Sky called him a virgin (real original) and Leon spit on him. The former is heel shtick, the latter is kinda cringe, but hey, you shake it off, right? He did, at least until security tapped him on the shoulder and ushered him backstage where Bully fucking Ray was there standing over him in intimidating fashion. Bully told the guy that he shouldn't "talk down" to the girls. The funniest thing is he said "don't say anything to them that you wouldn't say to your mom," which to me is hilarious given that as Bubba Ray Dudley, his entire shtick was saying the most vulgar, grossest shit to women who were the same age as his mom and younger. Not wanting any static, the fan said "Okay" and got the hell outta there.

Now, it's possible that the guy I linked to here embellished some things, but honestly, a lot of people vouch for him, and you don't have to go far back to see how much of a chode Bully Ray is. But the fact that he gets so mad at stupid things like a Scott Dawson tweet or a fan booing his girlfriend or someone tweeting about his girlfriend on Twitter being a disgrace to the Air Force (Hey Bubba, look up "Tailhook" and get back to me about how the Air Force inherently respects women, okay?). Getting mad on Twitter is one thing. Bringing a fan back for what he probably hoped would be an ass-kicking is another thing. Did ROH do anything about the fans who threw coins at Seleziya Sparx five years ago? Nah, they only care about women when the whiny MAGA CHUD they look to as a "locker room leader" pisses his pants because someone booed his heel girlfriend.

Bully Ray is the avatar for how irrelevant ROH has become over the years. It's sad, because even in the HDNet days when Jim Cornette was trying to hump the corpse of JCP with a roster that was better suited for indie workrate, ROH still had a modicum of dignity. Now, it's sitting back on corny cable networks and in late-night spots on Sinclair stations watching All Elite Wrestling get a spot on TNT. No one wants to stay there; they're either taking the gamble of going into the WWE meatspinner (three of their Top Prospect tournament winners are in the WWE system, for crying out loud) or they're taking AEW contracts. With Chris Jericho still working New Japan dates at a high profile, it's valid to question how much longer that company is going to pal around with ROH before partnering with AEW. I mean, remember when ROH booked Enzo Amore and Big Cass, I'm sorry, nZo and CaZXL, without telling anyone in NJPW? This is self-sabotage not seen in wrestling since Dixie Carter valued Vince Russo more than a television deal on Spike.

Honestly, even if that fan in question was skirting the truth and did verbally abuse Sky and Leon enough that they'd react in that way (and it's possible he did), the fact that ROH decided NOW would be time to take action instead of all the other times in the past when women felt unsafe or offended being at a show, as a fan or as a performer, is hilarious since it was because it happened to Bully Ray's girlfriend. Like WWE, ROH does the bare minimum for women and expects praise for it. It's a shitty situation, and you shouldn't buy it at all.

ETA: According to friend of the blog D., it turns out that the original accuser appears to be 100 percent completely in the right here:As it turns out, Velvet Sky and Bully Ray are both not nice people.
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