Bruce Prichard Addresses Those Who Felt Like He Was Being A Bully To Chris Park (Abyss) On WWE: Unreal

Bruce Prichard spoke about the moment and William Regal’s involvement.

There was a moment on the Netflix series WWE: Unreal where Chris Park (Abyss) was producing a Seth Rollins versus CM Punk match, and the bout went over time. Bruce Prichard confronted Park about it, and there was a general reaction online, with the consensus feeling that Prichard was being a bully.

On Something To Wrestle, Prichard said the following about the moment:

“There’s cameras everywhere. There’s cameras around you all day long; you forget there’s cameras on you, and in that scenario, yeah man, it’s live TV. You know who they’re gonna come to at the end of the day if the show doesn’t work or the show doesn’t go off on time or doesn’t work? They come to me, okay? That’s the end of the story, and I’m responsible for it. In communication, sometimes things get lost in communication. Also, the beauty of documentaries and the beauty of editing is you can create stories, and you don’t get the whole story, all the time, and anybody who knows Chris Park knows what a wonderful human being he is and he’s one of the sweetest guys on the face of the earth, extremely talented, and really good at what he does and cares. I mean, just cares, and he’s a beautiful soul. He really is, and you know, Chris takes everything to heart. If you are in a situation… you’re asking a question, you’re not getting an answer, or I’m not getting the answer that I need — if I ask you what time it is, I don’t want to get the history of watchmaking; I wanna know what time it is. If I ask you, ‘How much time do we have left?’ I don’t wanna hear, ‘We’re getting close.’ I just need a number. Tell me, help me, and that happens literally every week on every single show, and it was good TV… I watched the entire series but it was one of those — had it on while I was in here working. So I haven’t sat down and just watched it. I did watch that particular scene and thought it was hilarious, thought it was great. But you know, Chris is Chris and Chris is awesome so, anybody that takes that for being a bully or anything else, you’ve never worked in live television and you’ve never worked in real life, and if everything has to be sugarcoated for you, I feel really, really sorry for you. Because life’s tough, and in order to make it sometimes… you gotta be able to take it or get out. If you can’t take it in the kitchen, get the hell out of the kitchen, and Chris can take it, and he does his job and he does a damn good job at it.”

Prichard then commented on William Regal’s involvement in the moment when he comforted Park. Prichard said that’s what Regal is there for.

“My English friend. ‘Oh, you’re wonderful. I love you. Oh, everyone loves you.’ But that’s Darren. That’s what William Regal does.” Prichard continued, “Well, Regal afterwards telling him he’s loved and he’s wonderful and, ‘You did excellent’ and all that stuff, everybody goes, ‘God! Thank God for Regal! He set Bruce in his place!’ I’m like, that’s Darren. Darren’s another one. Here’s a guy who’s about as even-keeled as it gets, and great guy. That’s what he’s there for. He’s there to, ‘Hey man, it’s okay. Here, let’s go do that.’ I’m the hothead. I’m allowed to be the hothead in that moment, and then afterwards, I’m gonna b*tch for about 10 minutes, and then, next. Let’s go. We ain’t got time to listen to me b*tch.”

Season three of WWE: Unreal will premiere on July 21st, and it is centered around John Cena’s retirement.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Something To Wrestle with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.