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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Bully Ray On Why There Won't Be A Dudley Boyz Reunion, Mae Young, Roman Reigns, MJF

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Bully Ray (@BullyRay5150) is a professional wrestler known for his time in WWE, ECW, NWA and IMPACT Wrestling. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2018 as part of the Dudley Boyz tag team with his partner D-Von Dudley. He joins Chris Van Vliet at Sam's Town Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas to talk about his career that has spanned 30+ years in professional wrestling, how he is currently working as a hell in Impact Wrestling and as a babyface in NWA, his thoughts on Roman Reigns in WWE, why MJF is the biggest heel in the business, how Mae Young being powerbombed through a table helped to put the Dudleyz over, what the idea of "heel heat" means to him, why he likes to keep people on their toes, his goals in Impact Wrestling and much more! For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests.  Follow CVV on social media:  Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All systems are going.

0:01.3

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Bleley.

0:07.9

All right, my friends, welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight.

0:12.7

I'm CVV Chris Van Fleet.

0:15.2

And man, we've got a good one for you today.

0:18.2

Bully Ray, Baba Ray, whatever you want to call him.

0:23.8

He's such an interesting guy, such a fascinating guy.

0:24.7

And this is our fourth interview together.

0:26.9

Those four interviews have spanned the last decade.

0:30.6

Yeah, we did the first one in 2013 when I was working in Cleveland.

0:35.2

He was the TNA World Heavyweight Champion at the time.

0:37.7

We did another one when he was with Ring of Honor,

0:40.6

2017, when he was going through one of his many retirement angles.

0:45.6

Then we did one in May 2020, which a lot of people saw.

0:49.2

He gave me an hour for that interview.

0:51.3

We ended up going almost two hours and it was like a real career retrospective

0:56.9

of just everything he's done, his mindset, just really, really good stuff. And this one kind of

1:04.8

picks up where that one left off. And the thing that I love about him is that he's not afraid to tell

1:10.6

you how he feels. He's not afraid to tell you how he feels.

1:11.7

He's not afraid to tell you whether it's good or bad. He's going to speak his mind. And obviously,

1:17.5

it's no different this time. So we did this interview. It was this past weekend in Las Vegas.

1:23.6

Impact wrestling was there. They had no surrender. Then they had two days of TV tapings at Samstown

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