Bully Ray also told “Busted Open” co-host Dave LaGreca that he found all the discourse a bit strange, as people who had never seen AEW weren’t likely staying up until midnight watching WrestleDream. He said that it doesn’t seem like the kind of company you just buy a pay-per-view for and stay up watching without knowing what it entails. He believes everyone knows what they’re getting with AEW, especially since it is sometimes “outrageous.”

“When you use the word ‘outrageous’ with respect to AEW, I think of flamethrowers, Molotov cocktails, and yes, the fish tank,” he said. “Is it outrageous? Absolutely. From a business point of view, do I believe that any more people are watching AEW for this thing? I think it would be outrageous to believe so. But this is the product that they put out there. They give you strong in-ring wrestling, like [Samoa] Joe versus ‘Hangman’ Page was just a strong championship wrestling match. The tag match. Good tag team wrestling. And then they gave you the s*** show of the ‘I Quit’ match. It just is what it is.”

The Hall of Famer said that a hypodermic needle in the side of a wrestler’s cheek, a la Page and Swerve Strickland at All Out 2024 in their lights out steel cage match, is a lot more jarring to him than the fish tank spot.

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