WWE Hall of Famer Bully Ray, also known as Bubba Ray Dudley, recently appeared on Busted Open Radio to discuss a variety of topics. One of the key points was the recent name change from R-Truth to Ron Killings. He expressed curiosity about whether fans will continue to support Killings now that he has moved away from his comedic persona.
Ray said, “Since the fans have never been invested in serious professional wrestler Ron Killings, and have always been invested in sports entertainer R-Truth, do you think the fans are going to be as behind him? Something struck me odd last night, and I don’t know if you [Dave LaGreca] picked up on it, and it didn’t last long…[but] did you hear the ‘What’ chants for Ron Killings in the beginning of his promo? I think it happened two or three times. Now, I’m not suggesting that entire audience was chanting ‘What.’ I’m not evening suggesting that half of the audience was chanting ‘What,’ but I was shocked to hear some ‘What’ chants when he started off. I was like oof. That is not good; however, it ended, and it ended quickly. Other than him cutting his hair away, do you care about Ron Killings? Now, we’re going to have to emotionally invest in a person who’s doing stuff that we never really emotionally invested in before. When he got away from Truth and went to R-Killings, then he went back to the line of ‘The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,’ I don’t think I wanted to hear that…Once you cut that hair off, I never wanna hear the name Truth again. Don’t remind me of what you are trying to get away from.”
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