Although he’s always been known to be a tough brawler, Bully Ray has made himself that way, but admits there were three men who helped mold him into the main event he’s become in the industry. during the last session of “Lost Open Radio” Ray announced who the three sages were.
“When people ask me who I learned from in this business, I have three names. Paul Heyman, Vince McMahon, and: Pat Patterson,said Ray.
In addition to his response, the Hall of Famer talked about a memorable moment in his career with Patterson and his vision for a tag team match featuring Ray (Bubba Ray Dudley), his longtime partner D-Von Dudley and their opponents Chris Jericho and Christian. In his story, Ray noted that they were trying to create what he called the “Mona Lisa” pitch to Patterson for the match they wanted to play. Patterson, who was their agent on the night of their meeting, had another approach that completely stunned all four men.
“He’s sitting in the stands, in the arena, about four o’clock, smoking in the arena, bro, ’cause Pat doesn’t care,” the Hall of Famer began. “We go up to him and say: “Okay, Pat, this is what we got.” We put it all on him… He nods, takes the cigarette, blows the smoke and goes. “It’s good. But if you do that. And within seconds, he saw a side of the meeting that we hadn’t seen, talking about it for hours. And we just looked at each other like, “Holy s***.” The guy is incredible.”
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