Bully Ray recently took to the “Busted Open Radio” podcast to share his thoughts on AEW airing the All In 2023 backstage footage between CM Punk and Jack Perry on last week’s episode of Dynamite.
On last week’s show, the footage aired to further the ongoing feud between FTR and The Young Bucks.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On airing the footage: “It backfired. People in the arena — I don’t care if it was 10 people or 100 people or whatever, people were chanting for CM Punk.”
On the footage helping CM Punk: “I think that they actually make CM Punk look like a sympathetic figure here because Punk said what he said on Helwani’s show, and exactly what he said people saw. For face value, people are like, ‘Okay, Punk did exactly what he said he did.’ Anybody can say whatever they want, there was no reason to air the footage. There was no reason to say the Bucks wanted the footage aired, this guy wanted the footage aired. One person wanted this footage aired.”
Bully Ray’s tag team partner D-Von Dudley met CM Punk for the first time at WrestleMania 40, and he talked about the encounter in a recent appearance on the “Gabby AF” podcast.
D-Von said, “This past weekend at WrestleMania, me and my wife and kids, we were in the elevator and Dominik [Mysterio] comes in. I’d known Dominik for a long time, even when I was producing. Then all of a sudden the next stop was CM Punk. He looked at me, I looked at him. I was like, ‘Yo, what’s going on, man?’ He was like, ‘D-Von! Hey!’ I was like, ‘Hey, nice to meet you, man. I’ve never met you before.'”
He continued, “And I told him the whole story of how he met Bubba [Ray Dudley] first, and I said, ‘But don’t worry about it. I’m the better looking of the Dudleys.’ He kind of cracked and smiled. I was like, ‘No, all jokes aside, pleasure meeting you, man.’ He came off as one of the most pleasant guys I think I’d ever met.’”
