“Now [Punk’s] mind is racing, because the first instinct is, ‘This guy is shooting on me,'” Bully Ray continued, putting himself in Punk’s shoes. “Shooting on somebody doesn’t only come in the form of physical in the ring. It can come in the form of on the microphone with your verbiage. Just like John Cena shot on The Rock and called him out for the verbiage on the wrist,” he added, referring to a notorious 2012 episode of “WWE Raw” during the Cena-Rock rivalry. “That’s shooting on somebody. That’s going into business for yourself. And that’s why The Rock got so pissed, because you kind of went someplace that there’s an unwritten rule that we don’t go near.”

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Bully went on to say that if Page, or anyone, didn’t want to lay anything out ahead of time or address personal issues privately, instead preferring to go unscripted in the ring, that’s fine, they can do that. He also leaned on another classic example of two adversaries going about it that way, all in the name of business.

“Before the Invasion angle, Paul Heyman and Vince McMahon had an in-ring,” Bully explained. “Paul went to Vince, ‘What would you like me to say?’ [and] Vince told Paul Heyman to basically, ‘Shoot on me. Say whatever you want. I don’t care. I’m not taking it personally. I just need you to sell me a ticket.'”

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