In an update on former TNA World Heavyweight Champion Bully Ray departing the company so quickly after being brought back to television as a GM/Authority figure, a report from PWInsider.com noted that a highly-placed TNA source contacted them earlier this afternoon to inform them that Bully Ray could not have quit the company, as he was not under contract to them.

The report notes that the source claimed that Bully Ray’s storyline as TNA Wrestling’s authority figure was never meant to be a long-term story and that the ending of that story had already been planned and filmed prior to this week’s television tapings.