Bully Ray Quits TNA Wrestling Again

Bully Ray quits TNA Wrestling again, per a reported from PWInsider.com. As previously reported, Bully Ray, or to ECW and WWE fans, Bubba Ray Dudley, recently returned to TNA Wrestling to appear on their television program “IMPACT WRESTLING” as an authority figure. According to the report, he’ll no longer be appearing on the show past the number of episodes that have already been filmed with him in that role.

PWInsider reports that Bully Ray was not called to work the current set of “IMPACT WRESTLING” tapings, which will take the show into November, should it remain on television that long. With the man living in Orlando, Florida, where the program is filmed, this reportedly didn’t sit well with the former TNA World Heavyweight Champion.

The report says,

“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.”

Bully Ray and his on-air brother Devon have openly expressed their desires to return to WWE for one more run in the Tag Team division in recent months. They believe that they can add some legends to the fold, and spark some interest in the division that only has two credible teams built in it currently. Could Bully Ray telling TNA that he’s done lead to the Dudley Boyz returning to WWE soon?

Editor’s Note:

Bully Ray comes back, takes a look around, sees the company in shambles, and leaves. If that’s not a red flag regarding the future of this company…I don’t know what is.