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WWE Hall Of Famer Bully Ray Discusses The Toll The Industry Takes On Relationships

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The discussion about the issue continued on "Busted Open" for quite some time, with Bully bringing up the appeal of blurring the lines between fiction and reality in wrestling. He also looked back on his time working with tag team partner D-Von Dudley, and how D-Von struggled balancing his career and family life.

"I witnessed D-Von try to be a husband and a father over the phone for the majority of our career," Bully continued. "To listen to what he had to go through — arguments with his wife, or trying to reprimand his children, [or] talk to every single one of his children every single day. When you're doing this from the road every day, it is exhausting. I would get exhausted listening to him."

Bully emphasized that he teaches his wrestling students that their first goal in the industry should be to earn money, with the idea being that they're earning for their family. Back in the day, that also meant that wrestler's wives would receive regular checks from their husband's job, which Bully says often helped ease things over between couples.

 

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