Bret Hart speaks on the passing of Ray "Big Bossman" Traylor
Submitted by Matthew Tremley on Saturday, September 25, 2004 at 12:04 PM EST







• Yet another taken too soon
  
  Not again. The wrestling fraternity is mourning the loss of another brother. Ray Traylor, aka Big Bossman, died of a massive heart attack Wednesday.
  
  He was only 42. He leaves behind a wife and two daughters, eight and 11.
  
  I've started to become numb to the sad and seemingly never-ending roll call of dead friends. The length of the list became alarming a long time ago.
  
  Why are so many pro wrestlers of my era dying so young? And at a rate close to 10 times higher than football players of the same age.
  
  Traylor's gimmick name became his calling. His friends called him Bossman. He was a big, husky kid out of Georgia, the epitome of all that's good about Southern rasslers. His good ol' boy accent was no put on and, despite being a 300-lb. brute that terrorized Hulk Hogan with a billy club, in real life Ray was a big, friendly southern boy. He was a charming, likeable shy man with a penchant for laughing and joking all the time.
  
  He usually had a big grin on his face and it sounded natural the way he said, "gal dang it" a lot.
  
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  Credit: SLAM! Sports
  

  
  

  
  
  

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