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Bully Ray, formerly Bubba Ray Dudley, is set for a New York Street Fight against Juice Robinson at Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling’s G1 Supercard at Madison Square Garden on April 6. The show will be live on HonorClub and New Japan World at 7:30 p.m. and replayed on AXS TV in two parts on April 12 and 19.

Before adding another match to his Hall of Fame career, Bully Ray took time for a Q&A with The Post’s Joseph Staszewski:

Q: What impression or feeling do you want fans to leave with after watching G1 Supercard?

If you look at this card, this has got show-stealer written all over it. I’m not talking about an individual match. I’m talking about an all-encompassing night.

It’s said that WrestleMania 17 is the greatest WrestleMania and wrestling pay-per-view of all time. This has a chance to top that. Not character-wise. Because nobody in Ring of Honor or in New Japan is going to come close to characters like The Rock and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. And I don’t know if anyone is going to come close to topping a TLC 2 [match].

What I can say is that this night on a whole has the chance to capture a lot of people’s attention where they have to go back and watch it again or they’re gonna tell other people to go and watch it. Ring of Honor and New Japan have the opportunity to catch a lot of lightning in a bottle. They just better make sure they have a big bottle.

Q: The companies have already kind of moved past The Elite leaving to start AEW, but is this a night where you can really turn the page and set up the coming year?

I think the page was turned the very last night that they were in the company. Just like the page is turned on any night talent or talents leave the company. Talents coming and going from wrestling companies happens all the time and you move past it the day after they leave.

Q: How big of an opportunity is this Ring of Honor championship match for a Marty Scurll and Matt Taven who haven’t tasted that big-time gold yet in Ring of Honor?

This is not just about opportunities for Marty Scurll and Matt Taven. This is opportunities for every single wrestler in Ring of Honor and every single wrestler in New Japan. It’s a huge night.

I’m probably the only one who knows what it feels like to taste success in Madison Square Garden. I’ve done it many times. This is fresh for everybody. This is new for everybody. I know people say Pierre Carl Ouellet (PCO) wrestled there at WrestleMania 10. That’s eons ago, man. He probably doesn’t even remember it now that he’s dead and reborn like a bootleg Frankenstein. It’s a mega night for everybody. It’s beyond huge.

Q: How would you describe your character in Ring of Honor?

I didn’t reinvent the wheel. It’s Heel 101 done as only I can do it, as only I can present it, as only I can speak it, as only I can perform it. I’m the last real heel in the wrestling business. I’m probably the last heel, period in the wrestling business. I challenge anybody who finds someone who compares to the level of heel heat I can get either on a microphone or just standing in the middle of the ring doing nothing.

Q: For you, why was a New York Street Fight open challenge the right thing to do for this card?

Why should I try to do a tremendous wrestling match when everybody else is gonna go that. If everyone else is gonna go out there and play classical music, I’m gonna go play rock-and-roll. I’m going to do something different. I want people to go home and say, “Holy crap that was the greatest card I’ve ever seen in my life. But that Bully Ray match, holy s–t.” And that’s my mentality going in.

Q: For those who do not know some of the New Japan guys, when you say Kazuchika Okada and Kota Ibushi and Hiroshi Tanahashi and Tetsuya Naito, it’s kind of the like the Beatles of Japan coming to play your town.

If you’ve never seen the Naito’s or the Okada’s or the Ibushi’s, when these guys come through the curtain you’re not going to have any emotional investment in them. But I guarantee by the time they’re done doing what they do best, you’re going to love them for one reason or the other or you might despise them.

For somebody who might be seeing this for the first time, especially a guy like Naito. He’s so cool. He’s got that swagger. When Naito comes out you might not get it. You might not understand it. You might not see it. You might not feel it, but I guarantee you by the time Naito’s done, you are going to be like, “That guy’s awesome. I want to see that guy again.”

Q: What’s the upside for Ring of Honor television champion Jeff Cobb? It just seems like his match with New Japan NEVER Openweight champion Will Ospreay is just a fun clash of styles.

I have gone on record on our radio show “Busted Open Radio” [on Sirius XM] with David LeGreca as saying Cobb versus Osprey is the sleeper, show-stealer of the night because of the opposite styles.

Cobb being that modern day suplex machine who can do just about anything and Ospreay he’s just awesome at what he does. He’s the aerial assassin. When you take two completely opposite ends of the spectrum and they meet in the middle of a wrestling ring that’s when the magic happens.

Q: What does it mean to have someone like Ring of Honor champion Jay Lethal who is loyal and never left the company?

I don’t think anybody can outperform Jay Lethal in a Ring of Honor ring. Nobody understands the style and the psychology or Ring of Honor better than Jay lethal. When you watch a Ring of Honor match you are getting a lot of moves, spots or aerial things that might not necessarily make sense. When you watch a Jay Lethal match you are gonna get those moves, the high spots, your going to get those amazing aerial things but they all make sense.”

Q: In New Japan there is IWGP Heavyweight champion Jay White who is emerging now. What do you see from him?

In ring, Jay White has it all. There is no doubt. He’s in the same breath as an Ospreay or a Lethal. Personality wise, I think he’s continuing to grow. I think he’s taking steps forward with his character. He’s taking steps forward with his speaking ability. The more opportunity he gets the better for him.

I think the most important thing for a Jay White is to be in the ring with someone who is going to challenge him promo-wise, somebody who is going to be able to stare Jay White down and make Jay White step up to the plate and cut that great promo back.

Q: Do you have a favorite Madison Square Garden wrestling moment?

On a personal level as a 12-year-old kid I was sitting in the front row the night Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka jumped off the top of the steel cage and splashed The Magnificent Muraco. I got to touch Jimmy Snuka that night. I got to see that moment. Right there in front of my face. So personally that was my moment.

Professionally, I think it’s the night the Dudleys put their name on the map in WWE at the Royal Rumble 2000 in the first tag-team table match. Hardys vs.The Dudleys. We may have lost the match but we won the people.

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Q: Do you have a favorite tag team right now?

I love what The Usos are doing because there characters are … I think they are so underrated on the microphone. Usos are really, really good in the ring. I remember working with The Usos and them stepping up to the plate. And I think they continue to step up working with guys like The New Day. I want to see a program between The Uso and the Hardy’s because the Hardy’s are going make The Usos work up to that next level. But it’s The Usos’ mic work lately. They’re so good. They’re so smooth and so believable.

Then on the other side, it’s The [Young] Bucks. It’s not because of what the Bucks do in the ring. What they do is exciting and it’s really fun to watch. It’s what they’ve done outside of the ring. It’s what they made with “Being The Elite” and how they’ve been able to create this next revolution in pro wrestling. Because what the Bucks are doing with AEW, with Being The Elite and all of the success they’ve had with their fan base is the same thing that we did in ECW back in ’95, ’96, ’97 and the heyday.”

Q: What have guys been asking you about performing at Madison Square Garden and what advice have you given them?

Don’t underestimate the rush that comes over you when you walk through the curtain because it’s going to be unlike anything you felt before. You can’t’ stop it. It’s this massive adrenaline shot that no matter how in tune you are with your body, your muscles or your mind. Once that adrenaline rushes to your brain it almost blacks you out for a second. So you have to stand there. You have to let the rush happen. You have to let the adrenaline kind of subside for a second. You gotta take it all in and then you got to go to ring and mean business.

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