Bully Ray on Devon leaving TNA, Sting Going to the WWE and More

TNA World Heavyweight Champion and President of the Aces & Eights Bully Ray recently did an interview with Chris Van Vliet of WOIO-TV, which is the CBS affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio.

Here are some of the highlights:

On DeVon’s recent departure from TNA: “As of right now, Devon is unfortunately not with TNA Wrestling. Here’s the thing about Devon being gone, in my eyes it’s a temporary thing.”

On Sting going to WWE:“You have to make the smartest business decisions for yourself, for your family and for your career. And if Sting thinks that he has accomplished everything that he possibly could in TNA and he wants to go do that, more power to him.”

On watching WWE:“I am a business man and I am a student of the game. I watch anything and everything that I can get my hands on so I can see where the trend in pro wrestling is going, so I can see what people are reacting to, so I can see what new moves guy might be doing. A good businessman always knows his competition and a good businessman always knows what’s going on around him so I would never sit here and lie to you and tell you ‘Oh no, I can’t watch anything else’. I watch everything. Whether it’s WWE or Japan or smaller independents or whatever.”

On CM Punk:“I’m a big CM Punk fan. The reason I appreciate Punk is because he’s fearless and because he reminds me of me back in the day because is so comfortable on the microphone and he will say what comes to mind and deal with the repercussions later.”

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