Bully Ray Quits TNA

[Big Red Machine]

Source: www.TNAWrestling.com

By Mike Johnson on 2015-07-24 11:05:52
Bully Ray, who JUST returned to TNA TV as the new GM brought in by Dixie Carter, is already gone from the company.

Ray hasn't been at any of the TV Tapings that are currently being held in Orlando, Florida (where he lives) and when people started asking where he was (since he lives locally in the area and the Team 3D Wrestling Academy is located there as well), word began making the rounds that he was gone.

The story I heard this morning is that Ray told the company he was done as he wasn't happy with the current state of affairs of the company and felt it was better to distance himself. Obviously, he was working on a per appearance deal and wasn't under contract.

Nonetheless, it has to be seen as a negative when TNA spends an entire week building up his return on TV and then he almost immediately quits the company. How they will handle his departure from a creative standpoint remains to be seen.

[Big Red Machine]

Some follow-up (also from PWInsider)

By Mike Johnson on 2015-07-24 13:13:36
A highly placed TNA source contacted PWInsider.com this afternoon, disputing that Bully Ray had "quit" the company, citing that since he was not under contract, he could not have quit.

The source claimed that Ray's storyline as the TNA GM was never meant to be a long-term story (since Ray was not signed, it could not be) and that the ending of that story had already been planned and filmed prior to this week's TV tapings.

So, there is the other side of that story.

[cero2k]

say what you will about TNA, but this is pretty unprofessional from Ray. If you agree to run a storyline, you finish the storyline, otherwise don't come back

[Big Red Machine]

say what you will about TNA, but this is pretty unprofessional from Ray. If you agree to run a storyline, you finish the storyline, otherwise don't come back

He's been doing unprofessional crap in TNA for a year now. He REALLY wants to get Team 3-D either into WWE or into New Japan to face to the Bullet Club.

[cero2k]

say what you will about TNA, but this is pretty unprofessional from Ray. If you agree to run a storyline, you finish the storyline, otherwise don't come back

He's been doing unprofessional crap in TNA for a year now. He REALLY wants to get Team 3-D either into WWE or into New Japan to face to the Bullet Club.

yeah, i love the guy, but i hope he never gets team3D in either promotion

[Big Red Machine]

say what you will about TNA, but this is pretty unprofessional from Ray. If you agree to run a storyline, you finish the storyline, otherwise don't come back

He's been doing unprofessional crap in TNA for a year now. He REALLY wants to get Team 3-D either into WWE or into New Japan to face to the Bullet Club.

yeah, i love the guy, but i hope he never gets team3D in either promotion

I'd actually like to see them back in WWE.

[cero2k]

I'd actually like to see them back in WWE.

i just don't want anything in WWE that makes WWE money

[Big Red Machine]

I'd actually like to see them back in WWE.

i just don't want anything in WWE that makes WWE money

You really think the Dudleys will make them extra money? I don't. I just think they'd have some good matches.

I can't see ROH being able to afford them, but Dudleys vs. Briscoes would be great.