Bully Ray continued by revealing that someone in a position of power within AEW had recently sent him a text thanking him for speaking so highly of AEW in recent weeks. This led to the WWE Hall of Famer explaining that he tries to speak positively about every wrestling company, and is always happy to praise AEW when the company does something good. However, the reason why he wants AEW to celebrate its own victories more often is because he experienced first-hand what that can do for a company.

“I experienced it first-hand with ECW,” Bully said. “I’m not saying AEW needs to be the next ECW, I’m saying you can learn from some of the things that ECW did really well, and there has never been a fanbase in history that has been as loyal to a company as ECW fans were to ECW, by far. So all I’m saying is AEW, please celebrate the victories with your fans. Don’t allow them to forget about it because you just move on. Start off your show by going ‘Hey, two nights ago we did this and we’re going to continue to do this, and we appreciate you being by our side.”

Bully rounded out by saying that the fans need more chances to prove how happy they are to be AEW fans, and opening “Dynamite” with a rallying cry that could have been over the top if they chose to would have been the perfect feel-good moment to get current fans excited, and newer fans even more engaged. Instead, the fact that the show moved on so quickly made him almost forget how good Double or Nothing was as a whole.

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