A Follow-Up on the Bully Ray-Kidnapping-a-Fan Situation

Bully Ray, seen here in his Dudley days, dug himself deeper with his response Photo Credit: WWE.com

So yesterday, news broke that a fan, @xIAMHOLLYWOODx, was virtually kidnapped by Ring of Honor security and lectured backstage by Bully Ray, who took issue to him booing his girlfriend and her stable despite the fact that those wrestlers were meant to be booed. Well, last night, this thing took a whole-ass turn. First, Bully Ray himself issued one of the most bullshit responses in history, corroborating the guy's account, and admitting that they kidnapped the dude BEFORE knowing or not if he said anything abusive or lewd to The Allure. The response is here:

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— Bully Ray (@bullyray5150) June 3, 2019

A lot of bullshit is heaped in these two pictures, so I'm gonna attempt to parse them.

I never threatened, intimidated or berated said fan.

One, he never said Bully berated him. Two, the mere fact that Bully had "security" (more on that later, that's the weird part) escort him backstage to meet "one-on-one" when one is a dude who isn't a wrestler and the other is, I'd say that's intimidation.

Convo lasted less than 30 sec

Corroborated by the fan's account, who said he wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible.

I even gave the fan a friendly pat on the back and told him to enjoy the show... his response "Thanks Bully."

Again, he wanted to get it over with as fast as possible so as not to get his ass kicked by a (two) professional wrestler(s). Again, this is all corroborated in his tweet thread, and a note, what is friendly to the oppressor/aggressor can be seen as intimidating by the oppressed/aggrieved.

Unfortunately, it wasn't until after "fan" was asked to be "not so rude" , [sic] did we find out the severity of the vile comments and lewd sexual gestures made towards women.

This part is the richest, for fuck's sake. One, this passage is where Bully Ray ADMITS that he just wanted to make an example of someone, anyone. How do you want to act on someone without knowing what the actual deed they did was? Additionally, the fact that he threw it out there and threw in "many other fans" without citation saying he "crossed the line," which could mean anything without context means he is full of shit here.

Secondly, without letting on anything about the circumstances surrounding what this guy did, does anyone remember how Bubba Ray Dudley first got famous? Hint, it wasn't the fucking tables. The dude used to stand in the various arenas Extreme Championship Wrestling would play and graphically and lewdly insult women in the crowd or women related to men in the crowd he wanted to lambaste. I'm talking sexually explicit shit that I would hope his mother would condemn. I don't wanna hear any bullshit about him "being in character" because you can play a heel without telling a guy his mother was sucking dick in Hell. That's grade-A horseshit cheap heat, the same kind of horseshit this response is. The fucked up thing is how much do you wanna bet that if the women involved here weren't dating Bully Ray or Hunter Johnston, ROH's head booker, I'm not sure they would have cared. Again, this is ROH I'm talking about here. They have not shown they care about women until now, and hey, they didn't care when it came to Taeler Hendrix, who accused Jay Lethal of demanding she sleep with him. ROH allegedly investigated this, but nothing as come from it publicly. If that sounds fishy to you, well, you're not alone.

The thing about believing victims is that people like Bully Ray depend on you to think automatically that victimhood is the sole domain of people he regularly marginalizes. So when something like this happens and he has the opportunity to go after someone for what he feels is disrespect, he's going to play games and try to get people to think he's defending women. It's gross and ignores the fact that what he and Johnston did was right. Oh, I forgot to mention. The security guy who accosted the fan? It was Hunter Johnston:

You guys want another bombshell?

The “security” that brought me backstage turned out to be Hunter Johnston... ROH’s head booker & rumored boyfriend of Mandy Leon, who had already facepalmed and spit on me https://t.co/erpKezA8FE

— Osh Kosh Big Josh (@xIAMHOLLYWOODx) June 3, 2019

Like this news puts a whole new spin on it, that Johnston wasn't assed to react when misogynist fans threw coins at Seleziya Sparx or when Hendrix accused the company of covering up sexual harassment, but when it's his girlfriend, who allegedly spat on the guy, he gets right up. At best, he's a selfish asshole who only acts when it busts his nut, and at worst, he just wanted to flex his micropenis and take it out on a fan who did show up that no one else seems to be anymore.

And even playing devil's advocate here, even if this fan did make a sexist shitshow of himself at one or both of those Pacific Northwest shows, what they did was tantamount to kidnapping. Like, what if he refused to go? Does this situation make you think they just would've ejected him from the building? It's a reaction that exceeds what the situation called for. If he really was yelling gross taunts at the female talent (which again, ROH has done nothing at all over the years to make women feel safe until now), then an ejection and a ban from the promotion would've sufficed. Somehow, I'm not sure that was the message they wanted to send. Either way, (probably not) right or (most definitely) wrong, they come out of this looking like the monsters they are. Hopefully, any fan thinking of spending money on this clownshow will think twice.