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** As William Regal was doing a virtual signing for K & S WrestleFest previous to AEW Full Gear, he talked about that he owns the identify ‘William Regal’ but when Vince McMahon had requested him to not use the identify exterior of WWE, he would have glided by ‘Steven Regal’.
No [WWE does not own my ring name]. I personal William Regal.
I personal William Regal but when Mr. McMahon requested me to not use it, I wouldn’t use it… I’d be simply Steven Regal. He gave me his blessing. No issues with me and Mr. McMahon in any respect.
Regal and Bryan Danielson’s relationship is nicely documented. Regal picked Danielson as his favourite member of Blackpool Fight Membership and stated he wouldn’t be related immediately if it was not for Danielson.
No, it’s not a tough query [who’s his favorite member of Blackpool Combat Club]. It’s Bryan [Danielson]… I feel an amazing quantity of all of them. Bryan’s been with me. We’ve been associates since 2000, and fortuitously, fortunately he got here into my life. It’s not the opposite manner round when individuals say, ‘Oh, nice you met him.’ No. I wouldn’t be related immediately if it wasn’t for him.
A chat consumer requested Regal to suggest some names to dive into from the historical past of British wrestling. Whereas doing so, Regal gave his opinion that Match Finlay is the perfect wrestler ever.
I wouldn’t know the place to start out [Regal responded when asked who he would recommend for people to dive into when it comes to British wrestling history]. The particular person I’d begin with, who you understand, could be Match Finlay as a result of he was the perfect and nonetheless is the perfect wrestler ever in my view. However then, ‘Rollerball’ [Mark] Rocco and simply go from there. Go on as a result of I’d by no means cease. My private favourite wrestler and Match Finlay’s private favourite wrestler is a gentleman known as Terry Rudge who is a big affect on my profession and an individual who I styled a variety of my — taught me loads but in addition, a variety of my model is like him. I wrestled him loads once I was youthful. However you may simply go on and on. In the event you like technical, actually, actually technical wrestling then Johnny Saint, Jon Cortez, Steve Gray, that’s lightweights. In the event you go into the heavy middleweights, I’m going with Match Finlay, ‘Rollerball’ Rocco, Marty Jones who was one in all my trainers after which heavyweights, Terry Rudge, Pete Roberts, Ray Steele, Dave Taylor. Loads of Individuals know Dave however Dave was an unbelievable wrestler, and it goes on and on.
Circling again round to Danielson, Regal feels if Bryan and WWE Intercontinental Champion GUNTHER had the chance to go one-on-one, they might placed on among the best matches of all time.
Unbelievable [Regal said about a match between Bryan Danielson & GUNTHER]. Have you ever ever seen Bryan have a foul match? Have you ever ever seen WALTER have a foul match? Proper. Or GUNTHER… I’d say, figuring out that I’m an enormous fan of each of them and their types, if that they had the prospect, they could have one of many biggest matches of all time.
** Becoming a member of Renée Paquette on The Sessions podcast was Stokely Hathaway. He debuted for AEW at Double or Nothing and instantly aligned with Jade Cargill and The Baddies. Hathaway shared that he didn’t know what precisely he was going to do on the pay-per-view till almost 20 minutes beforehand.
I used to be informed what I used to be doing possibly like 15, 20 minutes earlier than it was really occurring [Hathaway said about his AEW debut]. As a result of it was simply, you understand, may this occur? The time-frame, the date. We had been nonetheless within the wiggle room of is that this really potential? So as soon as we came upon it was, we talked about all the things. It was like, okay, that is gonna occur. So I needed to open up the curtain and peek. So it’s like, oh, this tunnel? Is there carpet? Are there stairs? Will I journey?
It was enjoyable. It was fairly the expertise to debut in Vegas on a pay-per-view. You couldn’t ask for extra.
Trying again on his time working with The Baddies (Jade Cargill, Kiera Hogan, Purple Velvet & Leila Gray), that’s an expertise he takes satisfaction in as a result of it was an all-Black group and the facility dynamic noticed a lady in Jade Cargill on the helm.
And the one factor amongst many issues I take satisfaction in is the truth that it [The Baddies] was an all-Black group, faction and I feel that holds a variety of energy as a result of the dynamic was fascinating. Jade [Cargill] had the facility and she or he is a Black girl and she or he had two different Black girls — [Athena was] in this system as nicely [when I debuted at Double or Nothing]. You’ve me, this little man on the aspect, you understand, touting all of them as queens. It was enjoyable and I feel it’s one thing trying again, I hope that folks noticed that and that may open up extra prospects for different individuals down the road however for me, it was only a cool factor to do.
** Fuego Del Sol was a guest on The A.J. Awesome Show and touched on the quantity of TV time that’s out there in AEW. Fuego stated there not being time for everybody is a credit score to the expertise roster and thinks it’s a superb drawback to have.
I imply, like I stated, I feel it’s a credit score to the roster that we have now developed [lack of AEW TV time that is available]. Unbelievable guys, veteran guys which were doing this for almost 30 years. Whenever you have a look at a man like Chris Jericho, all these guys chomping on the bit, the expertise is so good and I really feel like that’s a superb drawback to have. I’d slightly have an excessive amount of good expertise than not sufficient. However, I’m excited to see what my future holds and I’m excited to see what the long run holds for the corporate going ahead.
** As Colt Cabana was on the PWTCAST, he shared that he auditioned for a task on NBC’s ‘Chicago Med’ and for a task on ‘South Aspect’ which airs on Comedy Central and HBO Max.
I simply turned down an audition immediately. It was for Sunbather for a C.D.W. industrial. I used to be like, I don’t wanna do this [Cabana laughed]. However I used to be on Chicago Hearth and Chicago PD. Oh, man, I auditioned for Chicago Med the opposite day and I assumed I used to be gonna get it. I did actually good. It was all the way down to me — you understand ‘South Aspect’? You already know that present on Comedy Central? It was all the way down to me and one other particular person and the opposite particular person obtained it so, I’m attempting. I like doing these little issues, particularly if they’re one or two days of labor. They’re so enjoyable, versus the seven weeks I spent in Australia for Younger Rock for 3 minutes of TV time which was enjoyable. Which was the perfect however yeah, something native in Chicago, I really like doing.
** There’s an interview that Steve Fall of the ‘Ten Depend’ podcast recorded with Brandi Rhodes. They touched on the ‘Rhodes to the High’ actuality collection on TNT and Brandi stated she preferred it for what it was on the time. She doesn’t see the place that will match current day. So far as wrestling goes, Brandi is targeted on seeing Cody have his second(s) in WWE.
So, once more, I’m gonna not say, ‘I’m not doing that anymore’ [Brandi said about Rhodes to the Top]. However, I’ll say I preferred it for what it was, then. Nonetheless now, coming into this part of life, Liberty’s older, my husband’s on the chase of a lifetime, he’s type of on this trip of a lifetime. I don’t assume it suits to try this. Perhaps sooner or later, one thing like that will be a match however proper now, I simply actually don’t assume it’s. I feel that so far as wrestling is worried, for me, essentially the most intriguing story is Cody [Rhodes] attempting to seize this dream and it’s been so improbable, aside from, you understand, the harm portion however it’s simply been actually nice to see him reconnect with this viewers, type of be fully welcomed again house, coming again to WWE after which to have his again on this journey. It’s been actually, actually enjoyable to see and I’m excited for him to get again. Not just for that however as a result of he wants to return to work.
Persevering with on the subject of Cody, Brandi mentioned his performance at Hell in a Cell and dealing by means of a torn pec harm. She acknowledged that she gave him her blessing to undergo with it as a result of she was not going to win the argument of attempting to persuade him to not wrestle.
Effectively all the things wasn’t nice [with Cody’s torn pec]. I knew that getting into and fortunately, I’ve seen individuals with the harm earlier than so I knew that the chest was going to show black and blue. It was actually, most likely the worst that I had ever seen it however I at the very least knew that-that was what we had been gonna be , one thing to that diploma. However, you understand, for me, I do know that as athletes, we all the time wanna work by means of the ache so I used to be simply involved with how a lot ache had been we working by means of, particularly after we know that there’s a light-weight on the finish of the tunnel. It’s like, hey, simply get by means of this then you definately’re gonna have surgical procedure and also you’re gonna really feel so a lot better. So that you’re similar to, okay, nicely, right here goes all the things. So I used to be actually simply involved that he wasn’t placing himself by means of too, an excessive amount of however I [know] him. There was no arguing him wrestling that match. I gave my blessing on it as a result of why have an argument that I can’t win anyway? And so may as nicely give my blessing and simply hope for the best possible and I feel the perfect is what occurred there. I imply, get the W and go into surgical procedure.
** The Wrestling Perspective Podcast welcomed MLW owner Court Bauer onto the show. Whereas discussing his time working for WWE, Bauer informed the story of when Vince McMahon came upon an assistant needed to spend $30,000 on natural worms for a phase for The Boogeyman.
There are occasions when Vince [McMahon] will strive one thing and spend a major amount of cash. It doesn’t work and he simply says, ‘All proper. Effectively we tried it’ and also you’re like, wow, that might have funded a half-a-year for my firm again within the day. One time we had a factor the place The Boogeyman, who cherished to eat worms — not likely however it was a part of the gimmick and we had these worms fall from the ceiling within the enviornment and JBL’s rolling round in them due to course, the heel’s petrified of the worms and Vince is laughing, going, ‘Oh, that’s nice’ and it’s raining worms within the enviornment and he turns to us and goes, ‘How a lot had been these worms? That’s a variety of worms’ and we go over and get the manufacturing assistant or the author’s assistant. ‘How a lot was it?’ He goes, ‘Effectively sir, that was $30,000’ and Vince’s jaw drops. He was like, ‘$30,000 for worms?’ ‘Effectively they had been out of regular worms so we needed to go natural’ and he simply appeared shocked. He’s like, I can’t imagine we simply blew $30,000 and there’s John Layfield rolling within the worms and he’s crying and everybody’s laughing however, it’s like, he was shocked and I feel that assistant was fired quickly thereafter however the present went on. You concentrate on a variety of firms are gagged to spend that type of cash, it’s extreme. At WWE, it’s on a completely totally different degree.
** On the latest episode of The Kurt Angle Show podcast, Kurt reacted to a remark made by Seth Rollins from an interview Rollins did. Rollins appeared again on The Protect’s historical past and made a comment about wishing the reunions had been dealt with higher. He stated Angle being in Protect gear with them at WWE TLC 2017 was ‘not excellent’. Angle had the next to say in response:
I don’t blame him [Seth Rollins for his comments]. I’d really feel the identical if I had been in his place. I wouldn’t need some Corridor of Famer coming in and taking one in all my teammates’ spots to fill in for a pay-per-view. However we needed to do it. We didn’t have a alternative as a result of Roman Reigns was out so any individual needed to step in there. Why not the Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle? [Angle laughed]
** Dustin Rhodes sat down with Chris Jericho for an episode of Talk Is Jericho. Rhodes appeared again on he and Cody’s feud with The Protect (Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins & Jon Moxley) in WWE. Dustin stated these had been a few of his favourite matches and he praised Rollins for his capacity to place collectively significant finishes.
2014, we had a pleasant story. Cody [Rhodes] misplaced his job and we’re attempting to win Cody’s job again by dealing with The Protect and we gave them their first loss and the gang was simply nuts man and it was such a superb match that we introduced it again for the pay-per-view the subsequent weekend and beat them for the titles. I imply it was lightning. We went on the highway with them to Europe, all that stuff, having these barnburner, 25 minute matches each night time. Me promoting, giving Cody the tag, him coming, increase, increase, increase and Seth [Rollins] has a very inventive thoughts of placing these intricate finishes collectively, proper? Simply lengthy, elaborated, Japanese finishes. Like quarter-hour of finishes, proper? However all of them make sense and you’ve got moments in between all these items and that’s what makes ‘em so nice and so they had been simply a few of the funnest matches I’ve ever had. Working with Roman [Reigns], even Mox, however Seth is unreal. We had a lot enjoyable.
Sure [Dusty Rhodes was involved in the feud]. He was down there and he took his belt off and was whipping Ambrose and it was magical. It’s a kind of magical nights.
** IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Group Champions Francesco Akira and TJP partook in a digital meet-and-greet that was hosted by NJPW. Each United Empire members expressed curiosity in including a Joshi expertise from STARDOM to the group.
TJP: You already know, simply the opposite day, I had talked about that it might be helpful to type of be the primary unit to department out in that technique to create members in different firms or a part of the world or particularly different divisions and particularly like with STARDOM and having such shut interactions between the businesses and I feel that there’s some superb candidates that will be helpful for us. They’ve some superb stars in STARDOM, no pun meant [TJP laughed].
She [Waka Tsukiyama] defended Gideon Gray fairly strongly I’ll say [at Historic X-Over].
Akira: I imply, all of us watched KAIRI [tear] the home down within the STARDOM present so STARDOM is high-level so we’re gonna need to have some lady after all in United Empire. Can be very, very cool.
** Monday Night time Uncooked is emanating from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on February 20th and to advertise that present, newly crowned WWE United States Champion Austin Theory spoke to ‘CityNews Ottawa’. He appeared again on his segment with John Cena again in June and described it as a ‘enormous second’ for himself.
That was an enormous second for me usually because that was the primary time that I’ve finished something on-screen with John and for it to be a promo was fairly particular and never only a stroll by, it was a confrontation and simply attending to have that two minutes with him, it meant loads to me.
** Sami Zayn joined Corey Graves and Kevin Patrick on WWE After The Bell. He introduced up Chris Hero’s identify and phrases from Hero that stayed with him. Zayn and Hero had been having a dialog about what it takes to make it in WWE.
It’s placing your coronary heart into no matter you’re doing, it’s full dedication to no matter you’re doing. Once more, going again to the [Johnny] Knoxville factor, it’s a kind of issues the place possibly you may have put another person within the position, I don’t know. I type of prefer to assume that it needed to be me for it to work the best way it did however it’s placing 100% dedication into it that that’s what makes it work… I bear in mind Chris Hero, years in the past, years in the past, for some motive, this caught in my head. We had been speaking in regards to the thought of possibly at some point attending to WWE after we had been each on the independents and he stated — and this is applicable to Kevin [Owens] too as a result of we had been speaking about, ‘Yeah, you want these qualities and it’s worthwhile to possess this and this and this to make it in WWE.’ He’s like, ‘Effectively right here’s the factor, up till this level in your profession, you might have been the exception, not the rule and so there’s no motive to assume that received’t keep on. That you simply received’t proceed to be an exception slightly than the rule.’
** Episode #10 of ‘Jim Conlan Chats’ featured Brian Kendrick. He appeared again on his pairing with Ezekiel Jackson and dove into the way it got here to be. Kendrick stated he selected Jackson as a result of he preferred his character and he had the right look.
I didn’t select him [Ezekiel Jackson] as a result of I used to be gonna be taught something from him as a wrestler. However I selected him as a result of he has the right look and we hit it off after we met. I like his character, he was enjoyable to journey with. So yeah, we had fun. Sadly, the stint didn’t final very lengthy however, that’s simply the best way life goes.
** NJPW’s Shingo Takagi tried to create a brand new KOPW trophy.
** Interview with CyberFight President Sanshiro Takagi. He talks about Konosuke Takeshita working for each DDT and All Elite Wrestling.
** Tatsumi Fujinami’s Dradition Professional-Wrestling promotion has a present on December 1st that will air on NJPW World. In the primary occasion, Fujinami is taking over Hiroshi Tanahashi. The likes of Tetsuya Naito, Zack Sabre Jr., Shingo Takagi and AJPW’s Jake Lee are scheduled for the event.
** AEW’s Isiah Kassidy documented his first expertise inside a mosh pit.
** Applications are being accepted for the Nightmare Manufacturing facility’s new camp starting January 9th. Cody Rhodes and Q.T. Marshall are internet hosting the camp.
** The Cincinnati Bengals posted a video of Renee Paquette and Jon Moxley.
Renee Paquette and Jon Moxley are this week’s Rulers of The Jungle! pic.twitter.com/pH3NXMsC8h
— Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) November 29, 2022
** Scheduled for MLW Blood & Thunder on January 7th is Jacob Fatu versus Dragongate’s Ben-Okay.
** NJPW uploaded footage of Jushin Thunder Liger and Hiroshi Tanahashi fishing.
** wXw Ladies’s Champion Aliss Ink is sidelined with a rib injury.
** Bray Wyatt’s ‘Uncle Howdy’ character is the main target of the most recent Canvas 2 Canvas with Rob Schamberger.
** On December 29th, Shinya Aoki will probably be making his return to in-ring competitors. He’ll be dealing with Chihiro Hashimoto at DDT Professional-Wrestling’s Tokyo Dome Metropolis Corridor present. Aoki has been preventing for ONE Championship.
** The latest release from Hiroshi Tanahashi’s Ace’s HIGH collection.
** November 29th birthdays: Ren Narita, Dana Brooke, Hayabusa.
** Taylor Wilde welcomed Tommy Dreamer onto her ‘Wilde On’ podcast.
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