Bully Ray says he went to the ROH front office and offered to give up his entire segment to make the match a stipulation that could involve the rest of the wrestlers.

“I said to myself,’ I don’t know if these guys will ever have a chance to wrestle in Madison Square Garden again,'” Bully recounted, “and if this is their one and only time, I don’t want to be the one standing in their way.”

Bully says ROH management wouldn’t let him outright scrap his match with Robinson, as it had been heavily advertised, so the former Impact World Champion did his best to incorporate as many disparate people as possible into the New York City Street Fight, which saw Bully, Shane Taylor, and Silas Young battle Gordon, Robinson, and Mark Haskins.

“We got about six different guys involved,” Bully beamed, “that way they can say, ‘I wrestled in Madison Square Garden.'”

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