Dreamer mentioned Leon Slater’s botched dive at TNA Rebellion where no one caught him, and Bully Ray brought up a more recent example of Jon Moxley and Kyle Fletcher at AEW Worlds End, where the latter took a nasty landing on his neck. He said there was no one currently in the wrestling business who had taken more direct blows to the head than himself, Dreamer, and D-Von Dudley, but Bully Ray said that he got more concussions from back bumps than he ever did a chair shot to the head.

“I would say there’s no risk and reward,” Bully Ray said. “I’ve seen wrestlers who do choke slams now either on the hardest part of the ring, which is the apron, or power bombing others into the tip of the apron. Like, f*** that. That’s got ‘spinal split in half’ written all over it. I won’t even take a lung blower… I ain’t taking that move. One wrong centimeter and that knee drives into your spine, paralysis. There are certain things that should be wiped clean from the business. The boys should realize, ‘Alright, I’ve got to get rid of this because I don’t want to die.’ Agents and producers need to tell the boys, ‘No.’ And bosses should be like, ‘Uh-uh. No way.'”

Bully Ray said that William Regal’s post to X and the other things that are being said are in the best interest for wrestlers’ health across the board. He said that in comparison to the “stupidity” that they did back in the day, some moves today are directly impacting the back of wrestlers’ heads, as well as their spines.

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